Destruction of Historic Sites in Iran Taliban Style

RoozOnline ^ | 9/16/06 | RoozOnline

[Ptarmigan]

Not all of the Stans are Persian. Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are dominated by Turkic speaking people, which are different from Persians. Turkic is Altai-Ural, which includes Korean, Japanese, Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, and Hungarian. A good number of them are Persian/Aryan, like Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. They could be considered Persia or Iran East.

[Ptarmigan]

Must be hard for the Persians to be surrounded by Arab nations. I know in the Middle East, Persians are considered enemies, especially by Arabs.

[VOA]

...chirping of crickets...

Yep, that's the sound of the leading intellectual lights of the
modern world rushing forward to protest this erasure of history in
the Islamic world.

Can't blame them. It's touch to argue with folks that would enjoy
sawing your head off with a dull knife.

[struwwelpeter]

Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are dominated by Turkic speaking people, which are different from Persians. Turkic is Altai-Ural, which includes Korean, Japanese, Finnish, Estonian, Turkish,

When I was teaching English in Kazakhstan, some of my students were ethnic Kazakhi, and said that they listen to Turkish pop music because they can understand many of the words. One girl gave me a CD of some Kazakhi pop-rock and it does sound similar.

I noted that the word for meat (yed in KZ, et in TU) are pretty close, however bread (nan in KZ and Kyrgiz) is closer to Farsi. Supposedly Uzbek has a lot of Farsi and Arabic in it as well.

[Ptarmigan]

Interesting. I have heard Turkish before and it sounds like Korean.