KAFIRISTAN

(a continuing genocide)

The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Dari: بت بامیان‎; د باميانو بتان) were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautam Buddha blown up in March 2001 by the Afghan Taliban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

Nuristan, in eastern Afghanistan, was formerly known as Kafiristan (کافرستان, “land of the infidels”) until the inhabitants were forcibly converted from ancient Buddhism to Islam in 1895, and thence the region has become known as Nuristan (“land of the enlightened ones” — sic!)

The Hindu Kush:
Mountains of the moon
The valleys where we lived
With the faeries and the spirits of the wood.
We bred the Shen — the bravest of the horse tribe -
Grew the scented root — the Yu-kin -
We had our coins — copper, silver, gold -
Our open-faced, beautiful women.
They dressed so colorfully in furs and wool,
Loved as they wished,
Changed their husbands on a whim,
Grew old in love and children.

We men, we carved our wooden
Statues for the temples,
Decorations for the birthing huts.
We grew much fruit and grain.
We had many, many gods -
Every day was sacred for us.

Then the faeries cursed us,
Brought Abdur Rahman Khan,
With the plague of belief.
Invaders burnt our temples and our carvings -
Fire destroys the wood
That only time can make -
And all, all we had, was gone.
Our beautiful women covered
Their faces in mourning.

So many, many, many died,
Even the red Kafirs converted,
The Muslims called our land ‘Nuristan’
‘Land of the enlightened ones’.
Now, only the black Kafirs remain -
The brave Kalash -
All else is dust -
This is what it is to be a man.

 

The brave kalash