There has been strong tendency among the Sunni sect of Islam
inside Iran to organise themselves around the anti-Shiite sentiment. Some times ethnic based political
organisations take the forms of Islamist political parties to ensue their political
demands, and in some cases demand religious autonomy inside Iran.
Organising the Baluch struggle inside Iran on the basis of
the religion politic may be effective as long as Iran is ruled by theocratic Shiite
regime, but in the longer period its
will benefit the pro-Persian political
parties and elite in Baluchistan to gain power and subordinate the Baluch into Persian
colonial rule.
A fallacy of mobilising the ethnics group like Baluch in Iran
around religion is paramount to ignore the Baluch history of past and ignoring
the fact that the Baluchistan has been artificially divided and the Baluch nation
is artificially turn into minority in their own homeland in the artificial
states created by the European colonisers for the benefits of the European.
Second fallacy of mobilising the Baluch nation around anti-Shiite
sentiment will unite the Shiite community inside or outside Iran against Sunni
and the Baluch are followers of the Sunni school of thought with tendency to
secular culture.
I believe the Sunni Islam has moulded the Baluch culture on
this occasion it has limited roles to play. The balance of argument should
shift more towards the position of the primordial.
The hate and distrust between Sunni and Shiite is a
historical hatred in the Islamic world and cannot be bridged very soon. It is
an undeniable fact that the Sunni sects of Islam are more discriminated than ethnically
based discrimination although the Persian elites deny the existence of ethnic
groups inside Iran.
Iran is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural state, Arab,
Baluch, Kurd, Turk, Persian and many other larger and small groups dwelling in
their own homeland and has strong connection to their dwelling places that
cannot be ignored without consequences.
Every main ethnic groups
homeland is connected to a same ethnic group homeland in the neighbouring
country only divided by European drown borders.
The anti-Shiite and anti-Persian sentiment is very popular with
the non Shiite population inside Iran and the Middle East. But the religion is
only one element of national identity but the Shiite threat to Baluch inside
Iran and Middle East is also the real.
The Sunni Muslim population have resisted absorption into
Shiism for now and religion alone can not sustain the state policy of
assimilation. Because the Sunnism is a universal Islamic ideology and the
religion based political parties are more vulnerable to betray by those who
have been supporting them. Only independent Baluchistan can sustain Baluch
nation culture, language and religion freedom, and economy for ever.
The Baluch nationalist should not rely too much on anti-Shiite
sentiment, because the Baluchistan is an occupied land and the Baluch claim to
independence is a legitimate claim. The Baluch
right to self-determination and its success is not dependent on the survivor or
collapse of the theocratic regime in Iran. It is depend on the Baluch financial
and powers of mobilisation in the right direction.
The idea of Baluch national right to independent state is a legitimate,
desirable and satisfactory political action. The idea of independent is associated with
creating and sustaining the Baluch nation and protecting the Nation from all sorts of threats from the
outsiders.
Baluch should not allow
pro-Pakistan, pro- Iran elite’ to divert the Baluch National struggle for independent, to gain political powers in Baluchistan. Political power in Baluchistan
is not substitute for the independent Baluchistan.
M. Sarjov
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