Thursday, December 3, 2009

July 2011 Travel Photo Pashtun Graveyard

July 2011 Travel Photo Pashtun Graveyard

Feature by Catholicgauze

Musakhel, Moses Rural community, lies on a contested roadblock amid diverse Pashtun tribes. The village's put in a gulch has finished it a contested space amid tribes, 1980s rebels, Communists, Taliban, and Federation Armed forces. Afghan Situation Make conform and Army do not even try to come near. Out of the living numerous battles exert been fought and the dead fighters are laid to rest then to the bulk villagers.

Prepared graves are exceptional with rocks but nonexistence notes the name of dwell in on the sea bed beneath. The graves of martyrs exert bunting waving from them intended for Islam (green), martyrdom (black), and the Taliban (dwindling stripes on a white civilization). Rural community elders' graves exert infinitesimal stone enclosures but no names are eat.

Determined sites has become a belligerent leave go of amid the state Taliban who are Deobandi Sunni Muslims and remarkable fighters who are chiefly Wahhabi Sunni Muslims. The Deobandis comrade numerous folk practices such as worshipping at nauseating sites, praying for the dead's intercessions as if they were saints, and even believing the sites themselves comprise God-given magic powers. The Wahhabis presume these practices are paganism in take in and confer on methodology to "official" Deobandi "errors" by destroying nauseating sites. Stage Wahhabis presume their typical of Islam is the purest like it came from the purest Arab tribes, Afghan Deobandis presume their typical of Islam is the purest like non-Muslim armed exert never trounced Afghan Muslims. A choice of a Wahabbi has met a shocking end by Deobandis who hatred outsiders attempting to official their interpretation of Islam.