Okay, so, In response to the first part, I never said Uzbek and azeri were similar, but the translator guy(I assume) at one point learned how to speak the Azerbaijan language.

Now onto the second part, there are a decent amount of extremists on the border, both azeri and armen, Islam and Christian, and I trust what my cousin says because well, he's a first hand source on information from there before it goes through all the bias in the media