a critical analysis of the kite runner

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A critical analysis by Dr. Raj Wali khattak on kite runner

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my brother in law lived I'm Afghanistan for 30 years. Mostly in Kabul and Maidan Shah. And he said this movie is bull**** and made for propaganda purposes against Pashtuns. He isn't a Taliban supporter, and he says the Talban do not take part of bacha Bazi. Though the Taliban did have a lot of strange laws. Enforcing them in a very strange way,. But Bacha Bazi was not one of their practices.

[kakargirl]

the book was written by a westernized sharaab drinking khaled hosseini to spread propaganda to make money hes a nobody to show that the pushtuns are really bad people i'v got two words for him but i wont say them as hes a big begharath anyway and as my father says it dosnt effect begharath people what you say about them .

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thanks

manana for sharing

[BarakzaiAbdali]

The greatest treat I ever had was telling Hosseini off in person for an extended period of time. The sad thing is he is a fellow physician. However, his roots are Qizilbashi Iranian in origin. I pulled him aside and told him that he did a huge disservice to America with this book. He asked me why. I told him that America was hungering for knowledge on the Afghans and the War after 9/11 and he fed them "feel-good" propaganda. In one part of the text he makes the chief antagonist, Asef, profess a love for Hitler. I reminded him that the innocent boys that join the insurgency are just villagers that have no idea who Hitler, Moussilini, Ayub Khan, Tarzai or anyone else are. They join because they see their lands as occupied and fight what they believe is a threat to their people and religion. His misrepresentation was to give America ammo in believing they were killing acolytes of Hitler and a reincarnation of the Nazi regime.

His wife tried to answer for him, telling me that the chief protagonist, Amir, is also a Pashtun and that is the saving grace. I reminded her that she represents Amir is a "clean" Pashtun because he replaces his Pashto with dari and all the trimmings that come with being a persianized Pashtun. I followed up with telling her that Amir was a nominal Pashtun in the book who married a Persianized woman. That sort of silenced her.

Later that night at the banquet, Hosseini and her were downing Heinekins like no one else. He tried to make nice and told me that he had heard this criticism all around the country from Afghans and was upset by it. He said that these differences between the Afghan ethnic groups exists and we could not ignore them. He went on to tell me that he was not a professor of history, but merely a story teller. I retorted by askin him if he was willing to donate the proceeds from the text and from A Thousand Splendid Suns to Afghans and to FATA tribals affected by the war. I reminded him that he and Siddiq Barmak, the director of the Movie, Osama, were in the same class of people: those that profited off the back of their people by selling themselves out and generating war propaganda. He threw out a few unsavory words and walked away.

However, there is a silver lining to all this. I saw him on the Colbert Report a few nights later and he made sure to tell Stephen Colbert that he did not feel that he was representative of the typical Afghan on the ground and that his text did not represent pure historical realities.

The sad thing is that some fellow Afghans have harnassed this book as an accomplishment for and by the Afghan people. They tout it is a shining light in the dark... when in fact it is a black hole in bright sunny day.

[kakargirl]

well said barakzai wror you told the begharath sharaab drinking on his face i'm so proud of you the begharath really angered my family back home and the pathetic film was filmed in china and outskirts with kazahks as the extras and actors who had to learn the language.

[graveyardofempires]

The greatest treat I ever had was telling Hosseini off in person for an extended period of time. The sad thing is he is a fellow physician. However, his roots are Qizilbashi Iranian in origin. I pulled him aside and told him that he did a huge disservice to America with this book. He asked me why. I told him that America was hungering for knowledge on the Afghans and the War after 9/11 and he fed them "feel-good" propaganda. In one part of the text he makes the chief antagonist, Asef, profess a love for Hitler. I reminded him that the innocent boys that join the insurgency are just villagers that have no idea who Hitler, Moussilini, Ayub Khan, Tarzai or anyone else are. They join because they see their lands as occupied and fight what they believe is a threat to their people and religion. His misrepresentation was to give America ammo in believing they were killing acolytes of Hitler and a reincarnation of the Nazi regime.


His wife tried to answer for him, telling me that the chief protagonist, Amir, is also a Pashtun and that is the saving grace. I reminded her that she represents Amir is a "clean" Pashtun because he replaces his Pashto with dari and all the trimmings that come with being a persianized Pashtun. I followed up with telling her that Amir was a nominal Pashtun in the book who married a Persianized woman. That sort of silenced her.

Later that night at the banquet, Hosseini and her were downing Heinekins like no one else. He tried to make nice and told me that he had heard this criticism all around the country from Afghans and was upset by it. He said that these differences between the Afghan ethnic groups exists and we could not ignore them. He went on to tell me that he was not a professor of history, but merely a story teller. I retorted by askin him if he was willing to donate the proceeds from the text and from A Thousand Splendid Suns to Afghans and to FATA tribals affected by the war. I reminded him that he and Siddiq Barmak, the director of the Movie, Osama, were in the same class of people: those that profited off the back of their people by selling themselves out and generating war propaganda. He threw out a few unsavory words and walked away.

However, there is a silver lining to all this. I saw him on the Colbert Report a few nights later and he made sure to tell Stephen Colbert that he did not feel that he was representative of the typical Afghan on the ground and that his text did not represent pure historical realities.

The sad thing is that some fellow Afghans have harnassed this book as an accomplishment for and by the Afghan people. They tout it is a shining light in the dark... when in fact it is a black hole in bright sunny day.

wrora you are my hero

one of my my white friends who is very nice and open minded had red the book and he came to me and said this guy husseini has this awsome book and he is a good afghan writer and i was proud not knowing who he was or what the book contains.than upon doing some research and later watching his movie i went back to my friend and told him this guy is merely an anti afghan who has put his own fantasies into this and attempted to cause ethnic tensions between Afghans,the guy was very understandable since he knows me well has alwasy been curious.

this guy husseini is a qazilbash ismaili shia so we shouldnt be too surprised and he like latif pedram and other prapagandists have been using the suffering of Afghan people to get themselves fat pockets.

their work was to dehumanize afghans and pave the way for the invasion,probably working for the pentagon.

[torkham]

deer manana barakzai abdali for what you said to khalid hosseini
i have had to remove blinkers from many foreigners who came to me excited about both books - where asif and rashid respectively represent pashtuns with brutality.

hosseini cleverly tried to balance the act by casting good and bad in people, but the message is subtle for the masses, however for the discerning it is alarmingly clear that the pashtuns have been targeted.

i have read both books.

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manana for sharing nice info

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well said

my brother in law lived I'm Afghanistan for 30 years. Mostly in Kabul and Maidan Shah. And he said this movie is bull**** and made for propaganda purposes against Pashtuns. He isn't a Taliban supporter, and he says the Talban do not take part of bacha Bazi. Though the Taliban did have a lot of strange laws. Enforcing them in a very strange way,. But Bacha Bazi was not one of their practices.