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To: Cronos
Are there still Zoroastrians, and if so, how are they faring?
3 posted on 08/05/2014 6:00:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; odds
Are there still Zoroastrians, and if so, how are they faring?

Well your question can be split into 3:

1. are there still Zoroastrians? Yes -- in India, Iran, the US, Canada and Australia with the largest community of 70,000 in India. They are in Kerman province in Iran

2. Are there zoroastrians in Iraq? I don't know -- I guess a few, not more than a couple of hundred, all among the Kurds (an Irani people)

3. Are these people the Yazidis Zoroastrians? Well, not quite. Some kind of syncretism.

6 posted on 08/05/2014 6:09:18 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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