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My take on it is that all expansionist religions piss people off if one way or the other. Christianity had its fair share of that. So did Islam. Islam's cross to bear is that it came last. So when it pissed off other faiths afresh, old enemities amongst other faiths were buried and put aside...

Sure they were. They were kings. Ruling was one of their KRAs.

Or you could make paneer out of it and eat it. There are more cost effective ways of taking on the enemy.

Long before he was looked upon as a divine Prophet, Mohammad was an extremely astute politician, well versed in the power dynamics of the Arab world. So it would not be incorrect to say that Islam has always been more politicial first than theological or spiritual after. The very basis of the...

All what you say is historically true. But the Jews and Christians have decided to bury the hatchet. For the time being. As the Jews are cheek by jowl with the muslim world in the middle east. Friction is inevitable. The christian world and the muslim world is not all that different. I...

There is no problem with Islam. It is a victimized religion. Like the Jews during WWII. Every religion has its nutcases and hotheads. What we see as a supposedly incremental phenomenon today is a Neo-colonial Western and Zionist backed conspiracy stemming from the insecurity of losing out to...

Parsi bhaiyya on dad's side, Irani maharashtrian on mum's. Going further back, surti on dad's side, and dahnuite from mum's.

I catch every episode of Nigella's Kitchen. And its not for the recipes.

Old age is a curse. What does one achieve by living that long anyways? I'd rather eat meat than live that long. If we were meant to be eating ghaas foos, we would have had wider molars, longer incisors, and no canines. Not to mention two stomachs and a gut two and half times the present...

Pretty disappointed with the Storme's pricing guys. What do you think? LX more than 2 Lacs costlier. EX more than 1 Lac costlier. The VX seems to have held its price. No 4x4 option in LX on order. Big let down. No front facing third row. Another big let down. No nice models like in the...

Nargol in south Gujarat is where the Zoroastrians first set foot in India. What remains today is a cluster of whitewashed walls enclosing beautiful heritage homes, mostly manned by caretakers. After a leisurely walk along its quiet lanes, there is a virgin beach with endless casuarinas swaying...

The Atash Behram at Sanjan

Sanjan Day Western Railway have given special stoppage of two scheduled trains Flying Rani(up) and Gujarat Express(down) at south Gujarat’s Sanjan railway station on 18th and 19th of November on the occasion of ‘Sanjan Day’, which is attended by thousands of Parsi community...

I think there should be only Pakistani moderators. The international moderators will never command the same level of neutral respect. With the Pakistanis at least the equation is prety clear and in-character, and what we get is usually pretty balanced. I am not in favor of banning anyone. It...

No child should have to go through this. Anywhere in the world. :angry: May Ahura Mazda protect her and help her recover completely and speedily.

In general the Shias are cooler and more educated than the Sunnis. I realise that this is an Indian perspective and may not hold good elsewhere. But by and large the Sunnis are poorer, more backward, and more fundamental in their outlook towards religion and other religions. The Shias have...

Cool! So the war continues. As does the trade. :tup:

It gladdens my heart to see the rise of nationalism in the Iranians. Equally, whether you call it Iranian nationalism today when its fashionable and not frowned upon, does not change the fact that it was always not so. And that when it was not (barely a hundred years ago), the seeds of...

Cool! What you forgot to mention is they are all also Muslims now. I am sure the Israelis would not mind the Palestinians joining them post their Bar Mitzvahs as kosher Jews.

So? They still have first mover dibs on that land sir. The muslims can be accommodated though. There is no reason to kill them.