Discourse analysis of Fayez Mohammad Kateb's narrative about why and how to degenerate the Hazaras by Abdul Rahman

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1 Professor of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

2 Associate Professor of Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiya Society

3 PhD student in the field of contemporary Muslim thought, representative of Tehran and Alborz, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiya University

Abstract

Excommunication is an extremely negative and distorted form of "otherization" and "imagery" and a "strategy" that is intended to "remove" and destroy the enemy or at least to "marginalize" him. The Shiite and Hazara community is a victim of "Takfir" and the negative depictions of the discourse of ethnic nationalism during the era of Abd al-Rahman and after. The question of "adopting the policy of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" of Hazara by Abdul Rahman" has led to this research, and an attempt has been made to answer this question by using the "discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe" as a theoretical framework and method of analysis. . The result obtained is that the intensification of ethnic conflicts during the era of Abd al-Rahman was the result of a kind of "ethnic and religious particularism" that was applied in order to establish the dominance of a specific ethnic group, the Afghan/Pashtun people. Based on ethnic particularism, an attempt was made to represent and identify the millennial as a "destructive other" and a "dangerous and demonic enemy" on the one hand, and as "inferior", "despicable" and "beyond the limits of humanity" on the other hand. As based on religious particularism, he was able to mold the Hazara people as "disbelievers", "lost" and "rebels" in the mentality of other ethnic groups and tribes of Afghanistan. The result of this particularism was, on the one hand, a kind of "ethnocentrism" or "ethnic self-aggrandizement", and on the other hand, absolute religious self-righteousness, which led to the "ethnic cleansing" and "ethnic cleansing" of the millennium. The purpose of adopting the policy of "genocide" and "ethnic cleansing" was to distribute Hazara lands to "Afghan carriers" and to provide the basis for statistical majority, absolute political domination and finally to impose Afghan/Pashtun ethnic identity on Afghanistan and "forced assimilation".

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