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I find the Turko-Persian rivalry much more dramatic and exciting than the Perso-Arabic rivalry

Who told me this? Well, my experiences because in my city there is an increasing influence of salafists with their burka women. The problem with Europeans and Muslims is that both have contradictional lifestyles. Many Muslims don't like the European liberal lifestyle, while Europeans have...

In Europe many Muslims are unfourtunaely radical and uneducated. Islam has the worst reputation among locals in Western European countries like Germany, Austria, UK, France, Netherlands and Belgium.

Strong footsteps back to the stone ages. The Shariah law is definitely one of the most undemocratic and inhumane constitutions in this world and it's the biggest barrier for Muslim countries to evolve themselves progressively.

The Hund were m The Huns who invaded Europe with Attila were mainly Turkic. The elite of "European" Huns spoke probably a Oghur. Turkic language, closely related with the moder Chuvash language. the Huna people and the Hepthalites who invaded the Indian Gupta empire were mainly Eastern Iranian...

Aimaks are Persian speaking people of different origins including Turkic and Mongolic. The Kipchak tribe is obviously of Turkic origin while the Temuri and Chengizi tribes are predominantly Mongolic I would say that Aimaks are a colorful mix between Tajiks, Mongols and Turkics.

The lingua franca of the Ghurid empire was definitely Persian and the Ghurid elite also seem to speak only Persian. Language is the most important cultural identity of an ethnicity.

Central Asian Muslims have totally different worlds views than other Muslims. This region practices the most secular and irreligious Islam which exists. Muslim Kazakhs and even many Tajiks and Uzbeks are culturally and mentally closer to Orthodox Russians than they are to Muslim Afghans...

I know that looking Mongoloid is not a criteria for being Turkic as most Turkic peoples are actually Caucasoid (Turks and Azeris are the most numerous Turkic group and we are predominantly Caucasoid). Turkic peoples like Cumans were even described with blonde hair and blue eyes by most...

In Pashtun forums Ghilzais seem to be proud of being Pashtuns only. There are also many Ghilzais who reject any Turkic influences on them because they don't look Mongoloid. At least that was my experience. I know only one member here who is a Ghilzai and connects themselves with Turkic peoples.

The Ghilzai call themselves what they are : Pashtuns There is no difference between Ghilzais and Durranis at least not genetically and also culturally as both tribes practice the Pashtunwali. If the Ghilzai would be predominantly Turkic then they would also genetically cluster with Turkic...

He is not mixing up Mughals with Turkic. The Mughals WERE predominantly Turkic. The mother tongue of Babur was Chagatai Turkic. Neither he nor his great grandfather Timur could speak Mongolic. They were bilingual in Turki and Persian. However after Babur his descendants only spoke Persian and...

The Khazar theory of Ashkenazi Jews is a myth which was disproven by many genetic tests which were done on Jews. Jews are all genetically related to each other and they cluster genetically between Middle Eastern and European populations and far away from Turkic Central Asian populations. A...

Tocharians still existed in the Xinjiang region when the Uyghurs migrated there in the 7th century. Tocharian languages were also still spoken in the kingdom of Khotan untill the Turkic Khara khanids conquered the kingdom in the 10th century. Then the Indo-European Tocharians and the Khotanese...

The Uighurs were originally from Mongolia where they rebelled against the Göktürk rule and established their Khaganate in the 7th century together with the Karluk and Basmyl tribes. However the Khirgiz people from the Yenisei river invaded the Uyghur empire and destroyed their Khagante. Then the...

It is not really proven that the Barlas were a pure Mongol tribe. Most scholars say that they were more like a mixed Turco-Mongol people tribe who got later completely Turkicized. Neither Timur nor his descendants spoke Mongolic. Well, Baburs descendants also spoke only Persian lol. I think that...

Mughals had nothing to do with Mongols just like Tamerlane. They were called Mughals because they came from "Mughalistan". Ethnically they were Chagatai Turks who mixed with Persian women and later also with Hindu women. Even Babur had Tajik blood because bis great grandfather Timur married a...

Nasarbayev is o Nasarbayevs Pan I'm not Persian, I'm a Turk who was born in Germany and I don't care if you believe me or not. I posted on this forum earlier as "Charon" but know I have a different E-Mail address. I created some threads in the Military History section You shouldn't speak so...

Yes of course there are organzations like Turksoy and the Turkic Council but not all Turkic countries like Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan are not envolved in it. I mean the Kyrgyz revolted against their former president because he promoted Pan-turkism and everyone in Central Asia hates Uzbeks...

This only shows to me that Pan-Turkism simply doesn't exist. Especially The Turkics from the former soviet countries hate themselves and have only pride for their own ethnic group. Kyrgyz are the most extreme case anyway. However Pan Iranism also doesn't exist. Most Persians I know hate Afghans...