No doubt, I was (perhaps incorrectly) assuming that the parent him/herself was assuming that afghanistan was an arab country in the middle east. The finer detai

No doubt, I was (perhaps incorrectly) assuming that the parent him/herself was assuming that afghanistan was an arab country in the middle east. The finer details (that Afghanistan has no majority ethnicity, that many arabs came to fight the soviets during the soviet-afghan war, that by some definitions afghanistan is a middle-eastern nation) are not lost on me, but given the seemingly sweepingly ignorant nature of the post I was replying to I was going for a more high level rebuttal.