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To: Sultan who wrote (344)	11/1/2001 4:21:47 PM
From: uu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2926

Sultan, The Parsis you are referring to in India, are the descendents of Persian Zoroastrians who were forced to fled Persia about 1500 years ago when Arabs invaded Persia and through force tried to convert the Persians into Islam. Many fled to India, and into southern part of Russia, and some fled to central Europe. But the majority escaped to India. Currently there are fewer than 30,000 Zoroastrians who continue to live in Iran. These are the descendents of the Persians who refused to convert to Islam despite Arabs barbaric methods of conversion through rape, killing and destruction 1500 years ago. Regretfully because of their paranoid nature of the past 1400-1500 years, Zoroastrians do not wish to accept outsiders convert to their religion. You are either born into Zoroastrian in which case you are considered to be a Zoroastrian, or else you are an outsider. During the past few years a great sense of Nationalism has risen in Iran, and to defy the Islamic regime many Muslims in Iran have started calling themselves as Zoroastrians. Although anyone who is brave enough to “officially” convert from Islam to any other religion - as noted also by Koran - will indeed face nothing but death by the state. As a Persian Zoroastrian I believe I may know a little on the history of the religion into which I was born to, its fundamental beliefs, and since I lived in Iran the first 16 years of my life I think I may also know a little bit on Islam. I am not a practicing Zoroastrian, as I do not believe in any religion (as I expressed before). I believe in only 3 things that the Zoroastrian belief advocates: Good Thoughts, Good Deeds, and Good Words. As long as one follows these 3 basic rules, everything else falls into its place. Islam owes a great many aspects of its faith structure to Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity and many other religions that had come before it. A great Iranian religious scholar by the name of Ali Dashti did a life time research on Islam and its origins and wrote a valuable book (currently banned in Iran and as a result few are in publication) in his late 70’s with well documented proofs. His book in short proves that Islam is nothing but a mixture of Jewdism, Christianity (Old Testament) and with Zoroastrianism having the most influence on bringing more humanity to its teachings. Dashit, himself a Muslim, was imprisoned for his writings by the Khomeini regime in his late 70's and tortured in prison in the most horrific manner despite him being in his early 80's. He died at in 1984 in prison at the age of 83. At the time he died he said "I wished I had found out the truth about Islam when I was younger and could have expressed my findings to the people of Iran. And had I dont that we would not have had an Islamic revolution today." You know, in Farsi (the Iranian language otherwise also known as Persian), a Muslim is called "MoSalman". Without going into details, Salman was the last supreme Zoroastrian priest of the last Persian empire Yazdegerd III (from the Sassanian dynasty), and the very person who had great relationship with Muhammad prior to Muhammad’s death. Salman was also a trusted associate of the Yazdegerd III. It is believed that it was Salman who betrayed his country, and religion and provided the means for the Arabs to invade Iran which resulted in the forceful conversion of Persians from Zoroastrianism to Islam. Mo-Salman is what a Muslim is referred to in Farsi and in Iran. The word Mosalman means We from Salman. Although no Iranian Mosalman will dare to say that to your face or admit that! In any event as time allows me , if you are interested, I can write on specific influences that Zoroastrianism (which some estimate that to be 6000 years old) has had on Islam including parts that talk about forgiveness, light, and darkness, good and bad, heaven, and hell. Regards,