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Latest Atrocity Proves This War Is Religious
The Sydney Morning Herald ^
| June 21, 2004
| Paul Sheehan
Posted on 06/22/2004 8:32:12 PM PDT by quidnunc
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To: Cyrus the Great
Are you Zoroastrian then? A true Irani should be a Zoroastrian/Nestorian Christian, not following a religion that was forced on the Persian people when they were conquered byArabs.
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06/23/2004 5:17:58 AM PDT
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Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: B-Chan
I dunno I thought we could just nuke the place, but your idea seems ok too.
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06/23/2004 5:19:14 AM PDT
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Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
No worries, we'll have a CAtholic-Orthodox-Baptist-Armenian-Coptic-Assyrian-Syrian-Lutheran kirk there.
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06/23/2004 5:20:47 AM PDT
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Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Cronos
It wasn't exactly "forced" on them. What had happened is the Persians had earlier brutally conquered a chunk of the Middle East. The Arabs arrived on the scene in the nick of millenial time frames and tossed them out.
The Persian leadership elite was no more popular among the Persian people than it had been among the conquered people.
At the time, the religion adjustment was a minor issue (all things considered).
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06/23/2004 5:26:15 AM PDT
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muawiyah
To: muawiyah
What had happened is the Persians had earlier brutally conquered a chunk of the Middle East. The Arabs arrived on the scene in the nick of millenial time frames and tossed them out.
Not really. The Persians were not the brutal conquerors you make them out to be. Cyrus the Great was pretty benevolent to the Jews you know. The Assyrians were cruel and so were the Babylonians. The Persians conquered them and then conquered Egypt. however, they were then knocked out by the Eastern Roman Empire. The Persians at the time of theArab invasion was Iraq eastwards, not Arabia.
The REligious readjustment was a major issue as Iranis were Zoroastrians, not people of the book (Jews and Christians) and could be slaughtered and were slaughtered like the Hindus were a bit later on.
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06/23/2004 6:12:57 AM PDT
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Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Cronos
You need to bring the Persians forward to 228AD, at least, and notice that Mithrism is the dominant religion at the time. This was when the Sassanid period began. The Parthian's preceeded them. They were not nice people.
Please bring the Arabs back in time to the 600s (7th Century).
In 651 the Arabs beat up on the Persians big time.
Islam replaced Mithrism. It also replaced Judaism in many places. To a degree it replaced Christianity.
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06/23/2004 6:47:02 AM PDT
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muawiyah
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