“[The Pashtun are] are only good when they live in other, non-Pashtun civilizations.”

…what kind of literature does that sound like? Please.

“Anybody who tries to explain kink is really saying this: ‘if we can just find out what went wrong to make some people kinky, then we can stop that thing from happening, and nobody will be kinky anymore.’”

I would not agree that we should never seek for explanations for people’s behavior. (Substitute “racist” for “kinky” or “gay”, f’rinstance.) But I don’t think you’re saying that. I think you are saying that without, as you put it “a whole host of moral assumptions,” we should not be attempting to diagnose sexualities as if they were diseases. I hope that someday you’ll extend that courtesy to my sexuality as well as your own.

I was born and raised in Peshawar, and am sort of Pashtun myself (I am of Persian origin, but my family has been in Pashtun-dominated areas for about 300 years, which means I’m genetically probably more Pashtun than Persian).

Pashtuns are barbaric in the sense that they are not cultured. They do not have, for example, a written philosophical tradition (as you have among, for example, the Greek [Plato, Aristotle etc.], the English [John Stuart Mill, Francis Bacon, etc. etc.], the French [Rousseau, Derrida, Goethe, etc.], The German [Frege, Einstein, Nietzsche, etc.] and especially the Jews who have been the most civilized of all). Even in the India you have the philosophical tradition of Vedanta, as well as various beautiful empires such as the Mughals. It was under the Indians that the Pashtuns became civilized.

The terrain in northern Europe is also quite harsh, but they developed very well. Either way, the Pashtuns are ‘white’ but not as civilized as other ‘white’ people, hence the natural experiment that disproves that race alone determined the development of a people. There must be factors such as geography at play, to explain the exceptions.

I would request everyone who calls the Pashtuns barbaric, to come and live amongst Pashtuns for some time, only then will you know the true qualities of this great people.