Talk:Anti-Persian sentiments

Alleged Anti-Persian sentiments in Afghanistan

I would have to contend that this section is grossly inflated to show some sort of official systematic bias in Afghanistan whereas in truth, I really do not believe that is the case. The propositions asserted does not follow from the premise offered. Simply put, the article wrongly notes that Anti-Persian sentiments is "mostly seen in Afghanistan." Yet, only one instance of alleged Anti-Persian sentiment is cited. Thus, the weighty conclusion is not supported by the premise offered. Furthermore, assuming the truth of the cited alleged "anti-Persian sentiments," it does not follow that this should be created since there is no indication that Khoram had any kind of purposeful animus toward Persian speakers, rather he could have simply been motivated by linguistic pride or administrative convenience. In any event, I think the assertions in this section are extremely weighty and hardly have any support. Moreover, the fact that Karzai often speaks in Persian while addressing the nation, and that there are scores of Tajik cabinent ministers and high-level Persian speaking policy makers in Afghanistan, belies the assertion that anti-Persian sentiments "is mostly seen in Afghanistan." Scythian1 (talk) 03:35, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Removed fuzzy reference

The following sentence bothered me:

It is difficult to imagine the Arabs especially Ummayad dynasty not implementing anti-Persian policies in light of such events, writes Zarrinkoub in his famous Two centuries of silence, where he exclusively writes of this topic .

No matter how famous Zarrinkoub is, and no matter how extensively he writes, his inability to imagine that torture did not take place is not evidence that torture or anti-persianism did take place, certainly paling in comparison to the direct citations earlier. If he wrote so extensively on Anti-Persianism, then there must be numerous better quotes in which he says something to the effect of AntiPersianism did exist in ___ ____ ____ situations and we know because of ___ ___ ___.

Kitab al-Aghani seems like an excellent source. But its usage here pales in comparison to the previous source because there is no quotation. I can't find an English translation on line, but it would be nice if someone could go to the original source and find the quotation and translate it into English. Also, AFAIK, ancient sources of this type should not be referenced with page numbers, but with chapter numbers and verse numbers. Different publishers will have different page numbers. David s graff (talk) 19:20, 29 May 2009 (UTC)