Posted on 11/28/2005 10:52:20 PM PST by F14 Pilot
Iranian parlamentarian Kurosh Niknam, a member of Iran's Zoroastrian religious minority has been summoned to appear before the country's Revolutionary Tribunal after being accused of spreading false news and showing lack of respect for the authorities. The charges stem from comments Niknam made to protest against derogatory remarks against non-Muslims uttered by a close aide to Iran's Supreme Leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Non-Muslims "cannot be called human beings but are animals who roam the earth and engage in corruption." said Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati last week at a ceremony in north-eastern Iran to commemorate the 'martyrs' of the Revolutionary Guards and the war against Iraq (1980-88).
Nikam described the remarks as "an unprecedented slur against religious minorities."
"Non-Muslims not only are not beasts, but if Iran has a glorious past and civilisation to be proud of it owes this to those who lived in the country before the advent of Islam," he said, adding sarcastically that he wished to ask forgiveness to the "beasts" because "they do not commit sins, while those who sully the earth are those humans who don't show respect for the other creatures of God."
The Zoroastrian community in Iran is estimated to number some 22,000 - half the size of that in existence before the 1979 Islamic revolution. The faith was founded in about 600 BC by the Persian prophet Zarathustra, who believed he had seen visions of a God he called Ahura Mazda. Zoroastrian rule was driven out of modern-day Iran by the Muslim Arab invasion 1,400 years ago.
Sounds like the religion of peace at its finest; beating up on pathetically downtrodden minorities is what they do best..
Murdering Moe borrowed alot of Zoroastrian beliefs when he invented his cult of death. The people of Iran, Zoroastrian Persians were once a thriving progressive peoples before the Arabs,-nomadic Bedouin camel herders who lived hand to mouth, devoid of any concept of government and imagination, were gathered by Muhammad and re-made into murderous bandits who's rock god made stealing, murdering, rape and pillage lawful and good- came along.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
I am hearing that many Iranian kids are converting either to Zoroastrianism or Christianity!
Islam, as we know it, is dying in Iran!
This is a brave man.
My Persian neighbors are nominally Muslim, but they drink plenty of wine, and celebrate Norouz, the ancient Zoroastrian festival of fire.
They are fine, decent people and an asset to our nation.
-ccm
good!
Sounds good to me. I know quite a few Iranian Muslims like that, not to mention some Iranian Jews. Very interesting folks, very good people.
Had to know this was going to happen to this guy after his statement the other day. (sigh)
The regime not only prosecutes them, but kills zoroastrians who get too vocal
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