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Watched the Gendarmerie Academy graduation on IradOne tonight because a friend of my cousin was graduating. Then the General called Muslims in the Fergana Rim "guests who have forgotten whose house they live in".

My family has been in the walnut forests above Arslanbob longer than anyone in this country has had a gendarmerie. I am Muslim. I am Iradi. I am not a guest. That's the post.

My grandparents were the "guests" once, 1937, delivered by train. Nobody gets to use that word on anyone in this country. I'm sorry this happened, walnut. You're home.

The General's remarks are surely his personal views and not government policy. Have a nice day.

A man who commands four thousand gendarmes does not have personal views on live television.

In the valleys a guest is sacred. You give him the tör, the best meat, the warmest blanket, and your own family sleeps by the door. A man who uses "guest" as an insult has never been a host.

Russos in Nurzhan are not laughing either. Today it's the Fergana Rim that "forgot whose house it is". Tomorrow it's the Russian-speakers. We know this song.

And for the hundredth time this month: no, I am not THAT Ruslan. My mother is getting phone calls.

Told you Mar Ephrem would speak: "the faith of our fathers does not teach us to call our neighbours guests." Sunni clerics and rights groups too. And the DPI spokesman says the remarks are the general's "personal views", not policy.

NotADPIagent posted:

The General's remarks are surely his personal views and not government policy.

NotADPIagent posted the DPI statement a month before the DPI did. I'm just noting it for the record.

Thank you, everyone. He said it again in an interview this month, and the horsemeat thing too, as if eating horse is a "Muslim custom". In my village nobody eats horse. Across the line the steppe people do, and they would tell him it's a steppe thing, not a mosque thing. Ignorance with epaulettes.

The Kurultai answered him: "the clans know no guests among their own". The Chubar joined it too. Took eight months. Clans are slow. They are also right.

[SEEN] At the derby yesterday, in OUR stadium, in the NurGaz club box: THAT Ruslan. Watching Neftchi with the Neftchi people. Tabloids already say "Bekzatov". No comment from anyone. I don't know what it means. I know I want my stadium back.

[HEARD] Guys from the Jerdeshteri association in Moscow say Bekzatov was in Moscow again last month too, "commercial talks". So he's in Moscow, the General is in his box, and I'm in Surgut, -4 already in September. Nobody tells the vakhta anything.