[hanamizu]

speaking a language that has more relationship with German or Greek than it has with Arabic.

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Persian (Farsi) is an Indo-European language that is not related to Arabic. They do use the Arabic alphabet in writing their language. It’s an interesting language. Their pronouns don’t have gender. He, she, it are all ‘e’ which makes the feminist argument that we have to purge English of pronouns showing gender kind of silly. Are Iranian women more free than English or American women?

Iran was progressing towards modernity until Carter turned his back on the Shah and encouraged the mullah-led opposition. I know that the Shah wasn’t perfect and had made enemies but he was trying to lead Iran into the 20th century. The same can be said for the king of Afghanistan from the same period. Women, at least in Kabul were dropping the chadri and becoming educated. The mullahs hated that.

Well, we don’t have to see Persian or Afghan women’s faces any more.

[virgil]

Ethnically, I think Iranians are more related to Indians. They are not Arabs. They’re insulted if you call them Arabs.