There would be no need for Pathan, Sindhi, Baloch, Punjabi, Muhajir nationalism if we stopped creating walls between ourselves and just respected each other. There is a worm in us that is simply divisive and intolerant of each other. I saw this in my community, planned to escape it... but it seems no where is safe.
This is exactly my worry which is why I so aggressively fight back against Luffy. I realized this with the help of afghanis_hehe on the other forum. He started arguing back, he got locked out. When I started arguing back I got locked out too. Thats when I realized that this is what these sher malangs and their lovers here at home are so afraid of. They fear being countered, their narrative being debunked and as a result have to resort to scandalous character assassination or obfuscation campaigns to gain credibility. It doesn't work but only when there's someone to call them out, otherwise it MAY work.
I would say there are 2 reasons that most Pashtuns do not challenge the narrative of Luffy:
1) Sympathy- each community is led to believe it is "oppressed", each group has been led to believe it has somehow been wrong. This naturally gives fascists a place to operate. I say this because I have seen people stop me when I argued with MQM terrorists and racists and also when I did the same with traitors like Luffy.
This is a huge issue in our problem and we are teaching our kids only hate. For example @
A.Rafay is my brother and I am genuinely interested in learning his language or yours for that matter just I have been making efforts and may master Pashto completely very soon. (Just the de and da an issue right now)... we have to teach our kids that these ethnic identities don't mean a thing and shouldn't be a cause of hate while we should also tell them that each ethnic group is to be respected and has made huge sacrifices.
When I came over to the Pashtun cause initially it was for love of these great people... but later I knew this was bigger than that. It was to establish a statement of ethnic unity, to fight against a centuries old tradition of holding ethnic identity to highly. Only a person
who loves Pakistan can understand the beauty of someone with no knowledge of Pashtuns previously calling himself a Pashtun and learning the language.
Personally I would like the support of people to depant ethno-fascists. The only way that can be done is people from that ethnic group having a keen eye on their history and sound knowledge of their culture so that they can analyze history themselves and catch Luffy right where he tries to rape history. So I would want Pashtuns to be strong culturally and linguistically-but just not become too emotional or attached
2) Knowledge of history and culture- Having a better grasp on history gives Luffy and gang a natural advantage which in turn gives these people the ability to best others in debate.
I usually don't comment on the first point because its like a outsider commenting but I have revealed what I feel here. I am aware that I am in many ways a wannabe Pashtun with very few links in reality, a fact serpentine, spineless people like Luffy are very keen to remind me of. But still it is a truth and each ethnic group glorifies its own ethno-fascists. Look at my extended family. Voting for criminal Altaf the monkey for years. What sickens me however is their justification or purposeful obfuscation of Altaf's criminal speech which called partition a blunder.
If Hyperion is a tribal... you do not ask about a Pashtuns, especially a tribal Pashtuns womenfolk...
But ways are changing. I hope @
Hyperion is not getting pissed though while I also feel this may divert my attention f4m 2 beeping spots a.k.a b-i-g-o-t-s on my radar.
I would answer your other questions but I will leave them to Hyperion. My personal opinion is that Luffy is right about the fact that:
1) ANP made Pashto compulsory
2) the name was changed to Pakhtunkhwa
Which is good even though my fellow nationalists would abuse it. The issue is not exactly the "ethnic identity existing", its actually the ethnic identity:
1) being considered more important than the Pakistani identity-infact not being inconsequential as it has become in many developed nations.
2) Ethnic identity being directed on anti-pakistani lines. Do note it always starts with we were oppressed, the Punjabis stole our rights. This is why every time an Urdu-speaker starts spouting this rubbish you would have noticed I shut him up because it is actually a symptom of the ethno-fascist mind.
By the way by changing NWFP's name to Pakhtunkhwa another Nationalist party could have won over Pashtuns. But it is a flaw in our thinking. We believe any reference to "ethnicity" even though in Pakistan we are always aware of ethnicity being a big thing, is wrong. We have to accept that ethnicity itself is not an issue.
Its the way we direct it, how we have made it a very important aspect and use it on anti-pakistani lines.