Khomeini or his ancestors were possibly sikhs. His family name was khomeini-hendizadeh. Hendizadeh means of Indian descent.
Wrong my friend:
The ancestors of Ruhollah Khomeini migrated from their original home of
Nishapur in northeastern
Iran to the kingdom of
Awadh – a region in the modern state of
Uttar Pradesh, India – whose
rulers were
TwelverShia Muslims of
Persian origin.
[30][31] During their rule they extensively invited, and received, a steady stream of Persian scholars, poets, jurists, architects, and painters.
[32] The Khomeini family eventually settled in the small town of
Kintoor, just outside
Lucknow, the capital of Awadh.
[33][34][35][36] Ayatollah Khomeini's paternal grandfather,
Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor and was a contemporary and relative of the famous scholar
AyatollahSyed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi.
[34][36] He left Lucknow in 1830 on a pilgrimage to the tomb of
Imam Ali in
Najaf,
Mesopotamia (now
Iraq) and never returned.
[33][36] According to Moin, this migration was to escape from the spread of
British power in India.
[37] In 1834 Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi visited
Persia, and in 1839 he settled in
Khomein.
[34]Although he stayed and settled in
Iran, he continued to be known as
Hindi, indicating his stay in India, and Ruhollah Khomeini even used
Hindi as a pen name in some of his
ghazals.
[33]
It says they are
Persians from Nishabur in Iran.... It also says the HINDI suffix stayed with them for a while
indicating his stay in India.... They were Twelver Shia from those days... and in no way a SIKH
criticising Iran is fine, disagreeing with their faith
How come critisizing Iranian's main symbol ALLAH is unforgivable but criticizing their FAITH which is Shia MUSLIM is right??
anybody who says Shahada and testifies of Muhammad az his messenger and last prophet is a Muslim based on both Shia and Sunni Fiqh... Shias have the same prophet...same Qiblah, same Ali, same Fatima Al Zahra and Same Ulul Azm Prophets.... same Ramadan.... Same Namaz...
If you are really of good intentions to act as counter terrorism then you need to act every where that it is something about Wahhabis openly promote wiping off Shias and masacaring them... there are many posts here and in Saudi section openly invite all to do what Takfiri ISIL and Al Nosrah asks....
It is never alright to close your eyes on beheading promoters and Takfiri agenda here in PDF and only act upset when someone insults your own faith... It is rather same old middle eastern culture than a modern fair moderation...
Remember the famous saying of Imam Ali (a.s), when heard of some Muslim troopers opened a jewelry from the foot of one Jewish woman in Al Anbar:
" If a man dies of this disgrace of giving away Khalkhal (jewelry) from the foot of that Jewish woman, I would approve him"
