[Shermy]

wild region of Nuristan

Nuristan is the formerly named Kafirstan.

As in, "Which way is Kafiristan, Danny?"

[dighton]

‘We have slept over the notion half a year, and require to see Books and Atlases, and we have decided that there is only one place now in the world that two strong men can Sar-a-whack. [?] They call it Kafiristan. By my reckoning it’s the top right-hand corner of Afghanistan, not more than three hundred miles from Peshawar. They have two-and-thirty heathen idols there, and we’ll be the thirty-third and thirty-fourth. It’s a mountainous country, and the women of those parts are very beautiful.’

-- The Man Who Would Be King

[aristeides]

For as long as it was Kafiristan, its religion was a form of animism, not Islam. It was only converted to Islam fairly recently (around the beginning of the 20th century, I believe.)

By the way, isn't it the northeastern tip of Afghanistan? Wasn't it one of the last areas held by the Northern Alliance in the era of Taliban rule? What are the Islamofascists doing there?

[aristeides]

If I'm right about its location, it is on the Chinese border. Maybe that explains it.