The Kite Runner Controversy
I read Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, about 2 years ago when it stuck as one of my all time favorites. I became super excited last week when I found out that a movie is being made of the bestseller. It appears the making of the movie is causing some controversy.
Ahmad Jaan says his fears are two-fold – that the film will worsen relations between Hazaras and the dominant Pashtuns (both the boy rapist and the principal character Amir are Pashtun); and that his own family may be in danger when the film comes out, because of Afghan concepts of dishonour.
“Of course I’m worried about it,” he says. “My own people from my own tribe will turn against me because of the story. I am so worried they may cut my throat, they may kill me, torture me.”
His son has been quoted as saying he fears his friends will shun him because they think he really was raped.
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