[AnotherUnixGeek]

In the 7th century A.D., Freddie's original motherland, Persia, the present-day Iran, the cradle of civilization, the land of Cyrus the Great, the first author of the Human Rights Charter — was ravaged by Muslim hordes.

It was, but the Parsis have lived in India for over one thousand years - that's almost 500 years before Columbus sailed to the new world, and right around the same time that William the Conqueror led the Norman invasion of England. At this point, you'd have to say the Norman descendants of William are as ethnically English as the descendants of the Saxons, and you'd have to say that Parsis like Mercury are as ethnically Indian as Mahatma Gandhi.

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” ... and you’d have to say that Parsis like Mercury are as ethnically Indian as Mahatma Gandhi.”

That is incorrect if they as many ethnic groups (voluntarily) remained and reproduced almost exclusively within their own populations.