So how is the Taliban any different than the Saudi monarchy?

[jpak]

[Ptah]

1. Did you mean to post this in the Lounge?

[jpak]

7. No

But why not?

[malthaussen]

11. No politics in the Lounge. n/t

[jpak]

12. I made a mistake

Thank you so much

Not

[bottomofthehill]

2. They have oil and money

[RockRaven]

5. And the supposedly mandatory pilgrimage site. nt

[walkingman]

3. Saudis are our ally. That is about the size of it.

[tinrobot]

4. The Saudis own more politicians.

[LeftInTX]

6. Alot of differences

Saudi monarchy are legit heirs of the land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saud
Taliban is takeover group...unpredictable etc...
Also Talibans are Afghan
Afghans and Arabs are not even related. They don't speak the same language. Afghans speak Indo-European language, whereas Arabs speak Arabic..It's almost as hard for Afghans to learn Arabic as it for us to learn Arabic. Their script is Arabic though.

It's like asking, "How is the Sinolean Cartel different from Greg Abbott?" ..Two languages, two countries...

Not saying which one is worse or better, but they are different.

[Elessar Zappa]

8. I could be wrong but isn't the dominant language in

Afghanistan, Pashto, related to Persian? If that’s true, it would make the Afghanis closer to the Iranians than Arabs.

[LeftInTX]

9. Yes, it is. Indo-European language - Indo-Iranian Branch

There are also DNA differences between Iranians and Arabs.

I believe the two groups were physically isolated due to mountains.

The dark blue in northern Iraq and Turkey is due to Kurdish populations who also speak from the same language family.

[url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indo-European_branches_map.png][img][/img][/url]
[url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indo-European_branches_map.png]Indo-European branches map[/url]
Hayden120, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

[malthaussen]

10. They have no oil. But this is not an appropriate subject for the Lounge. n/t