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Ok that explains it for me. Religious Muslims who voted for the communists did this because the version of communism in their country was not anti-religion. But it mixed Islam with communism. Else indeed I would find it hard to believe a religious person deliberately votes for a party from which...

Thanks for all the comments. It is thus safe. I will come next year in summer I think or the year after that. (I only go once a year on vacation.) I would also love to see Afghanistan (it seems to be very beautiful) but I will wait with that :-)

A request for some honest advice. Is it save for someone from Western Europe who isn't Muslim to travel on his own to Pakistan, rent a car and drive through the country to explore the landscape and visit small villages and cities? To get this way a good impression of the country. Or if I do...

But religion and politics is sometimes mixed. Official communist doctrine is anti-religion. Read Karl Marx. Soviet Russia and China suppressed religion for example.

Thanks for your clear reply. So most Afghans and Pakistani's who did support the communists did this for the financial justice they thought they would be receiving from them. But did they know communism was atheistic, or they just were ignorant of that fact? Because it is so hard for me to...

As someone from Western Europe who is not a Muslim, but who is interested in Islamic history, I have a few questions. This thread will be about one of them. In the 70s in Afghanistan (maybe also Pakistan?) there was come support for the communists. There was a communist party in Afghanistan...