Rehmat
02-15-2008, 04:15 PM
Well, here are some similarities, which could be the signs that Pakhtoon in Pakistan and Afghanistan, who are the backbone of Taliban and now fighting against 60,000-strong Pakistan Army’s Usrael proxy war in Waziristan – could be one of the ‘lost tribes of Israelites’. For example:
1. Both Pakhtoon and Jews cover the graves with stones.
2. Pakhtoon put ‘five-branch’ paint-markings known as “Nars” on their houses to celebrate birth and wedding. Jews call such sign “Menorah”.
3. Pakhtoon women in rural areas light candles on Friday – just as Jews do.
4. Pakhtoon shoulder drape for men that doubles as a ritual prayer mat, is called a “tolia” - its name and function resemble Jewish “tallit”.
And then Afghanistan allegedly have several Jewish historical sites. For example, Gardez, where it’s rumored that a Jewish warrior named Gabur built an ancient fortress; Ghazni Province, where Pashtuns make pilgrimages to the tomb of a “Jewish saint” called Zikria; and Balkh Province, an ancestral area and possible cradle of Pashtun culture that once boasted a large Jewish population that disappeared long before the country’s other Jewish communities in Herat and Kabul dwindled after 1948 and died out in the 1970s.
Read Ilene R. Prusher’s (a Jew staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor) pilgrimage to my Pakhtoon country.
http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-04/200704-Taliban.html
WOW – I feel proud to be one of the “Chosen People” now!!
1. Both Pakhtoon and Jews cover the graves with stones.
2. Pakhtoon put ‘five-branch’ paint-markings known as “Nars” on their houses to celebrate birth and wedding. Jews call such sign “Menorah”.
3. Pakhtoon women in rural areas light candles on Friday – just as Jews do.
4. Pakhtoon shoulder drape for men that doubles as a ritual prayer mat, is called a “tolia” - its name and function resemble Jewish “tallit”.
And then Afghanistan allegedly have several Jewish historical sites. For example, Gardez, where it’s rumored that a Jewish warrior named Gabur built an ancient fortress; Ghazni Province, where Pashtuns make pilgrimages to the tomb of a “Jewish saint” called Zikria; and Balkh Province, an ancestral area and possible cradle of Pashtun culture that once boasted a large Jewish population that disappeared long before the country’s other Jewish communities in Herat and Kabul dwindled after 1948 and died out in the 1970s.
Read Ilene R. Prusher’s (a Jew staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor) pilgrimage to my Pakhtoon country.
http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2007/2007-04/200704-Taliban.html
WOW – I feel proud to be one of the “Chosen People” now!!