Talk:History of the Jews in Afghanistan

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Propose to rename article to Jew in Afghanistan? Since there's only one? --Ķĩřβȳ♥ŤįɱéØ 10:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• Very funny! But no cigar! It's all about the history of the rest of them as well... IZAK 11:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

This article is very sloppy. The claim that Pashtuns effectively consider themselves to be descended from Jews is new to me, and I've read very widely on Afghan ethnic groups. As for the origin of the name, 'Kabul', doubt it very much. See, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabul. The population figures don't really add up either. Apparently most of the 5,000 jews in Afghanistan emigrated to Israel from 1951, yet the current population of Jews in Israel of Afghan descent is about 10,000. That's a very low population rate!

Perhaps it's no coincidence that one of the sources - the Virtual Jewish History - itself is poorly sourced.