Cute, but no cigar.
As I mentioned, the Shias of Pakistan have no allegiance to Iranian Shia, nor is there any reverse effect.
Hasn't stopped you from being the uninvited spokesperson of every Shia on the planet either, has it?
Whatever happens in Iran will have no effect on Pakistani/Indian Shias.
Zoroastrianism has no interest in Pakistani/Indian or any non-Iranian Shia Muslim either.
The concept of blood is extremely strong amongst Zoroastrians and Hindus and Jews. Not so in faiths that grew and spread inorganically.
The reason I commented was purely in the interests of keeping the discussion here honest and to inject a dose of reality into the fantasy being peddled here.
All Indians and Iranians here are only too painfully aware of your reasons. The only person peddling anything here is finding no buyers. As it should be amongst people of ancient faiths.
Some Iranians here are playing along because the Indians feed their ego with on-demand anti-Arab rants. The Iranian-Arab-Turkish conflict is in the forefront these days because of Syria and other events.
I have not seen a SINGLE Iranian here who badmouths Zoroastrianism. Nor one who buys into the exclusivity of Islam over all else as is prevalent in other Islamic thought-streams we sub-continental people are sadly more used to. Thanks mainly to you guys of course.
Like I mentioned, in the US and elsewhere, where there are no restrictions on religion, the ex-pat Iranians are not "reverting" to anything.
Again you speak for the entire expat Iranian population based on your individual sampling. If anecdotal viewpoints win debates, I should simply back away.
Or come up with diametrically opposite stories of Iranians flocking to ZYA meets (a HUGE number do) and increasingly looking to read and learn about their faith from those of us who never stopped practicing it.
The problem lies in the lack of missionary zeal amongst Zoroastrian Parsis. Our faith was never geared in that way. But we need to change. We have a responsibility as keepers of the faith and the flame. Iran looks to us. Young Iranians look to us. And in the final analysis, looking at Iran's strategic cornerstone role, the world and humanity looks to us.
Did he convert to Zoroastrianism?
Do you even understand or remotely comprehend the role the Ayatollah plays in Iran? Seeing his blood in front of the atash padshah has made me more of a believer than the last 6 months battling with Iranians here.
You guys simply don't understand the concept of Musims/Jews/Christians being comfortable respecting their alternative heritages. It must come from the fascist Hindutva brainwashing you undergo while growing up in India.
A Pakistani is telling an Indian that? It would be mildly amusing had the novelty of the shock value not worn off a long ago for me here.
they might toy with Zoroastrianism as a fad
Zoroastrianism has been around for far longer than all other monothiestic faiths put together.
It may give you vicarious thrills to lash out feebly and demean it by calling it a fad.
If Zoroastrianism is a fad for Iranians, what does that make Islam?
Unlike you, I do not pass crass statements about another faith. I just leave the question hanging in the air.
For the unbiased to find answers to.