[BIGLOOK]

What gets me is all the societies in the Middle East and S Asia have lost their identities to Arab masters. Islam was the ticket for subtle conquest, time sealed the deal. Were these indigenous peoples to retrieve their former legacies and beliefs, they'd be better off. So would we.

[Cronos]

Were these indigenous peoples to retrieve their former legacies and beliefs, they'd be better off.

That seems to be happening in Iran where many are looking back at the glories of ancient Persia when they were Zoroastrians and realising thatIslamm was spread by conquerors who were of a lower civilisational standard than Persia (and arguably they still are lower than what the Persian civilisation was at in the 600s)