Mohamad Junaid: Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir

NEW YORK, November 14, 2011 — Kashmiri anthropologist Mohamad Junaid describes relations between Kashmiri Pandits and Kashmiri Muslims in a panel discussion with Arundhati Roy and Pankaj Mishra, moderated by Columbia University Professor Philip Oldenburg.

Source: http://asiasociety.org/video/policy/mohamad-junaid-hindus-and-muslims-kashmir

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[panniize]

@LaliSJamwal oh fuck off with your nonsensical aryan theories

[varunnagpaal]

He is a liar!

[charbi88]

Mohamad Junaid: speaking rubish lies

[sandeshpaudel]

@LaliSJamwal you are forgetting the brahmins of nepal. Sure, they are at the further east, but pure aryans from Iran migrated to afghan, then go as far as the east reaching the border of china.

[LaliSJamwal]

Surely not from Kashmir Valley but could be from The State. Yes the Kashmiri people today are the purest Aryans. There are three groups of pure Aryans (amongst others) they are the Kashmiris, most Iranians, most Tajik, The color variability in all these groups is the same, as expected for pure Ayans. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a pure Aryan and looks like a Lingayat of Karnataka. The opposition to this is the Jews, I do not blame them as they are insecure. Yet I do have sympathy for the Jews.

[Anotherkashmiri]

@LaliSJamwal

He is certainly NOT Middle Eastern looking. He looks Dravidian..though there are some dravdian looking kashmiris too..Not every single kashmiri has koshur looks, because in the past, some poorer Kashmiris intermarried with South Asians (esp with the Non-Brahmin South Asians). I mean Sheikh Abdullah (Sher-E-Kashmir) certainly did NOT look Koshur and neither do singers like Abdul Rashid Farash(may he RIP), Sheikh Javed and Abdul Rashid Hafiz...politician Bilal Lone looks Tamil..Lol

[LaliSJamwal]

He is surely not a Kashmiri. He is probably from some other part of the State and could even speak chane Kashur. He looks also quite Jewish thus may be an Israeli who has picked up the language. I lived in the Valley and can make out a Kashmiri. Kashmiris ALL HAVE ARYAN LOOKS.

[kashmirpandit]

Junaid, Rooshet in kashmir mean "Upset"!

[Anotherkashmiri]

Btw, I disagree with Junaid's view that KMs are the lower castes in Kashmir who converted...NOT true! Most KMs are Brahmins who were converted. Kashmiris were overwhelmingly Brahmins (like around 90%) and there is a historical significance to this in Saraswat Brahmin history. Around 8% were Kshatriyas and like only 2% were the lower castes like Vaishya/Shudra. Therefore most KMs are still Brahmins in origin.

[Anotherkashmiri]

@LaliSJamwal

He most likely is a Koshur because he speaks in Koshur language (He knew what "Roshoon" in Koshur means). I of course agree that he has Zero Kashmiri looks, BUT "Kashmiri looks" are for the average Kashmiri. There are some Kashmiris with NO Koshir looks and Junaid appears to be one of them!