Life's good Lewaneya ... AlHamdulilah ...

You do pick your topics ... mmm ... people are very passionate and religion is so deeply entrenched especially, but not exclusively amongst Pashtoons that it's difficult have a discussion about, least of all to dislodge ... and to someone like you that must be incredibily frustrating ...

See, we greet people with a Salaam, we respond to questions/situations by invoking Allah's name ... religion is part of the fabric of our society and the raison d'être for the the struggles we've been caught in ...

... I guess you have to expect it ... and no .. don't expect your English educated Western expatriate Pashtoons to be any different ... many have been to schools or raised in a systems where they have been discriminated against precisely because they are Muslim ... religion is something therefore, they will naturally defend ...