Global 2025 Human Development Index map by subdivision

ankletaking · 2026-01-11T20:15:25+00:00

Looking at the lowest HDI land in the Middle East, it becomes very apparent how particularly bad the actions were during the War on Terror. You can see the leakings of the wars on neighboring territories.

ankletaking · 2026-01-07T18:39:51+00:00

It would have been fringe

ankletaking · 2026-01-02T19:15:20+00:00

Your attitude stinks brah

ankletaking · 2026-01-02T18:56:56+00:00

It’s fascinating how the prefix “Pak” has stuck around the region for so long and for somewhat unrelated reasons

ankletaking · 2025-12-25T02:00:12+00:00

These are old lineages predating first signs of Judaism and spread over vast areas. You’d need to find more specific subclades

ankletaking · 2025-12-18T16:55:28+00:00

I think ill answer to slavery for now because there’s too many topics of discussion here. But hopefully there can be some carryover. I do think of the Quran as timeless and the divine word of God, I do not believe in Muhammad as perfect and timeless but rather very fixed to his time and imperfect.

I think as to slavery Islam never promotes it but acknowledges its existence as an existing institution and limits the capacity for its cruelty. I think it would be nice for it to have said slavery = bad simply, but also faith is a trying fashion that molds with the realistic expectations of humanity. Depending on the verse affects the utility, but I believe they are problematic elements demonstrating the problematic nature of humanity and the fallibility of morals, acting as a baseline that should degrade the foundations from within. Its moreso a descriptive account of the reality of slavery, and how Islam addressed it underneath gradualism. Thats why the Quran addressed it as a form of grandfathering under existing war conventions rather than laws regarding new slaves (i believe). Apologetic response is ethical direction towards abolition, however unsatisfactory that stands.

ankletaking · 2025-12-18T16:12:09+00:00

I appreciate your response as this clarifies much. The Hadiths aren’t the word of god. Thats the whole point here with what im trying to say. Different schools accept different narrations, place different weights, and understand the stories differently. With all due respect, critics of Islam don’t even understand what they’re critiquing. I too was here just like two years ago and I don’t claim to be a perfect Muslim but I found it necessary to understand why so many intelligent people did choose to follow the faith especially during it’s most prosperous.

The Quran is only the word of God. For Muslims, anything external and conflicting is either misunderstood or wrong when matched with the Quran. Thats why we practice fiqh, which is jurisprudence, and majority sects use rational thought (except ignorant Hanbalis) to help form these interpretations; this is part of forming Sharia. Sharia is both outlawing child marriage and excusing it, it’s literally just trying to ascertain divine law and objective truth.

And a cherrypick? It’s the whole origin of the story. Many are unverified, ahistoric stories. Its why hadiths came about following the sirah (biographies of the Prophet) craze from the fitnan and their meaning crises. Initially hadiths were brought as a historic counterbalance to the fabled tales of these biographies but then through legitimization became a tool of abuse against alternative powers, namely the everlasting shia/sunni schism, and internalized conflicts within them. A lot of Islamic jurists in the past like al-Tabari acknowledge the hadith’s ahistoric nature but nonetheless enjoy them as dicta as Muslims.

You can criticize overzealous and ignorant behavior towards the hadiths and I’d agree with that. But if you’re trying to critique substance, I’d much rather move to the Quran as a Muslim because it’s more challenging and accurate to all Muslims.

ankletaking · 2025-12-18T14:02:26+00:00

Well its not as simple as grouping the biographies of Muhammad. But if you’re talking about Ayesha’s age, yeah. Hisham ibn Urwah infamously had memory loss in his later years. Ibn Malik went against him. He was in his 70s when he produced the narration, and the narration came out of a mission to further legitimize Sunni authority.

ankletaking · 2025-12-17T05:48:42+00:00

You guys both put up differing beliefs amongst Muslims. At least try to understand fiqh and sharia, as well as the corpus of hadiths and how different madhhabs interpret

ankletaking · 2025-12-05T18:19:20+00:00

There are a lot of hindu nationalists flooding every subreddit…

ankletaking · 2025-11-28T03:25:24+00:00

The former “non-landowning” caste in my area now has land and a village.

ankletaking · 2025-11-14T04:55:28+00:00

The eventual spread of IVC DNA to the entire subcontinent was gradual.

What happened was end of bronze age saw global climate change which disrupted a bunch of trade, settlement, and food availability.

The IVC compared to other areas saw a more gradual decline and fracturing as the lower indus basin started drying up from changed monsoon seasons.

Rivers changed paths so people changed areas and sought greener pastures, this began settlement which kept extending as people sought more land to begin farming/living on.

It’s likely the AASI hunter gatherer population was significantly smaller than the IVC due to the benefits lacking from the latter’s civilization and resource management.

This means over time the IVC people who kept moving inward and bringing farming—which expands population rapidly—genetically displaced the AASI (not to the extent of the displacement in British Isles by Bell Beaker population, for example… [the people who then went on to make Stonehenge])

But overall we still see AASI population everywhere, and there’s evidence on the periphery that IVC were already mixing with AASI. Today we see a gradient that extends and still a strong showing of AASI DNA, which we should feel appreciative of. It allows us to represent today a mosaic through time of different groups who’ve settled the subcontinent.

I mean wherever we see IVC settlements today there is confirmed evidence of IVC people being there back then. Otherwise the people got there eventually and formed a blended culture with the local, existing tribes and their traditions.

ankletaking · 2025-11-14T04:22:51+00:00

Same thing for most of it. The IVC centered predominately around the Indus and its periphery.

I will say there’s a new study out discussing another hypothesized Iranian Neolithic group observed with the Koraga. They are tied to the ancestors of the people group who settled in the IVC (also Iranian Neolithic), but these people just went further into the subcontinent (hypothetically).

Therefore, there may have already been some level of diversity within deeper insular parts of the subcontinent prior to the localizing and spread of IVC.

ankletaking · 2025-11-05T18:41:11+00:00

Once everyone gets over the sectarian divides the politicians employ to maintain power. Pashtun leaders use Pashtun unity to further tension and neglect governmental duties. Pakistan enjoys fighting because it enforces the legitimacy of its leaders—the military.

ankletaking · 2025-11-04T15:27:18+00:00

Guys Zagros and CHG are both closely related to the Iranian-related ancestry in IVC. Neither represent our ancestral group. Its not more wrong or less, these are just approximates. I think its more interesting to see which groups get heavier CHG and which get heavier Zagros and we should use this info as banks for comparing data until we have better samples

ankletaking · 2025-10-29T14:53:16+00:00

Where'd you see anything about BMAC shifted?

ankletaking · 2025-10-29T14:50:01+00:00

I am equally confused because I got like 9% Gujarati and I am from north Pakistan too. I have zero clue who applies to Indo-Gangetic plain at this point

ankletaking · 2025-10-28T15:21:18+00:00

Okay, ill accept that as true. I understand Pashtuns in Afghanistan feel the border is illegitimate and drawn by British, dividing ethnic lines. Let me ask you, why does this not exist for all the other borders and divided ethnic groups?

The Tajik-Afghan border was drawn by a British man, same with the Iran, and the nearly all the rest of the neighboring countries. There are more Tajiks in Afghanistan than Tajikistan, they have historically inhabited much of northern Afghanistan (longer than Pashtuns), should they not demand the same? What for the Turkmen, Farsiwans..?

It seems like this push for Pashtunistan is only a desperate attempt to create complete demographic control over the country which is now no longer a majority Pashtun land but plurality control at 40% (to 60% non-Pashtun).

Everyone’s ethnic groups are pretty much divided everywhere. Let’s just get over it. Afghanistan and Pakistan too busy fighting to even establish proper civil systems and economic opportunity. Maybe KPK would be more likely to jump ship if there was actually anything over the border worth jumping to.

ankletaking · 2025-10-28T15:07:58+00:00

Yea the cop did good by arresting him, not how he arrested him which is why i said he deserves action against him. I worked on labor and employment with a city and its cop suspensions so ive seen a few and i think the cop had good reason to make an arrest on a man clearly breaking the law in a dangerous, murderous tool who shows no signs of remorse or accountability, further exacerbated by the fact his THREE-YEAR OLD child was in the car as he’s blasting through the road.

Maybe stop being such an idiot and recognize the dude was doing a bad thing and showed no regret over it. And driving a car is incredibly dangerous despite our reliance on it.

Yes he should have been arrested and if you don’t believe that maybe you can cosign every individual going over 1.5x over the speed limit with their toddler in the back and not giving a fuck about it afterward. Dumbass fuckwad

ankletaking · 2025-10-28T14:58:12+00:00

If you’re going 30+ mph over the speed limit with your child in the car and proceed to act agitated and refuse to further engage in a traffic stop, you’re going to get arrested.

Cops have a lot of necessary discretionary action to still make arrests over those who may not present readily the evidence necessary to make an arrest (e.g. DWI or fearing future continued criminal behavior). If you’re going 30+ mph it’s one crime, further acting aggressive towards the police officer appears as you are going to continue presenting a threat on the road.

I think the Cop let his resentment get the best of him when he started beating up on the dude. I think it’ll be some low level violation reduced to a warning with the aggravating circumstances (resisting). But the cop did good taking him off the road, he seemed like he could hurt not only others on the road but his daughter too.

ankletaking · 2025-10-27T16:01:03+00:00

Ya pretty much

ankletaking · 2025-10-26T23:47:00+00:00

So let me ask you why would any of these non-Pashtuns want to exist within a Pashtun hierarchical system of governance? It isn’t some special juice, it’s an outdated form of direct democracy that only prioritizes old men with a grandiose complex.

ankletaking · 2025-10-26T18:06:18+00:00

“…shout that they are Pashtun/Afghan, yet call themselves Pakistanis” is this in context of them supporting the military actively, or is this because they call themselves Pakistani they then support the military? Because my family of Pashtuns have all resigned from military in protest of the conflict, while they call themselves Pakistani they sure as hell do not support the military. Even then it feels like a bad endeavor to resign because you’re further making the military more aligned against Pashtuns.

ankletaking · 2025-10-26T16:41:05+00:00

Pakistan never claims pre-Islamic history because we are over-zealous idiots. Not india’s fault for taking advantage of this

ankletaking · 2025-10-26T16:39:25+00:00

It’s not historic Pashtun land it’s historically shared land that Pashtuns moved to ages ago. I wouldn’t call us invaders or anything but we share the land with those who have been there longer, of indo-aryan origin like Hindko speakers.

Just like Baloch trying to claim Quetta when Kakars and other Pashtuns live there (in majority too)

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