Wednesday, December 26, 2012

The Iranian has cultivated their seed among the Baluch to very dangerous level

The people of western Baluchistan are ethnically Baluch, religiously Sunni. Iran is Shiite majority state ruled according to Shiite doctrine or supreme Shiite religion leader wishes. The people of western Baluchistan historically belong to once was the tribal confederation of Baluchistan. Western Baluchistan historically is not part of Iran. The Iranian forces invaded Baluchistan in 1927.

In 1892 Lord Curzon wrote; Baluchistan comprises of the Godrosia, and part of Drangina, of the ancients; and it is a significant illustration of the shadows that has rarely lifted from these region, and of the precarious political existence which till lately they enjoyed. We can hardly attribute to the Persian monarchy the sea coast of Gedrosia or Mukran which extends along the Indian Ocean from cope of Jask to cope of Gwadar.

In the time of the Alexandra and probably many years afterwards, it was thinly inhabited by Baluch people who know little arts, who acknowledge no master, and who were divided by inhospitable desert from the rest of the world. It is an extraordinary, but never the less true from time of Alexandra’s march through Gedrosia and the navigation of his admiral along its shores we have no record of the visit of European to the interior of Baluchistan until 1809.
As long as the Baluch speak Baluchi language and follow the Sunni Islam school of thought they are going to remains an autonomous group or, called them a nation if you like, inside Iran. The language and religion are the biggest fences against the Baluch assimilation into Persian culture.

It is necessary for Iran to find a way that would weaken the capacity of Baluch to challenge Iran, I believe the Iranian have succeeded to reduce the Baluch competitive power to extent they cannot challenge dominated groups domestically or internationally. The Iranian has cultivated their seed among the Baluch to very dangerous level to the points a Baluch became a spoke person for outsider against its own interest.
 The state is undermining the Baluch domestic institution basis on which Baluch had historically sustained themselves as cohesive community and organized themselves to contest for state power.
I believe the Baluch religious institution has been hijacked by outside forces to some point have been used if not against Baluch but more in favour of Shiite state.  
 The Baluch religion institution alone can stand against Shiite sect of Islam as long as they are supported by their co-religious outside the state, once their support ceased their capacity will be reduced beyond imagination.  The religion institution has voluntarily given up the main pillar of national identity, the Language, which has brought the Baluch one step closer to assimilation.
I do not think the non Shiite religious institutions in Iran have capacity to turn Shiite majority state to Sunni majority because all religions are true in their own way.  It is nationalism that demands a shell for a nation to be safe in its own territory and protected by institutions, police, and national army from internal and external harm.
Mehrab. Sarjov

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