(The Baha'i religion represents an effort to merge the main world religions, especially the Abrahamic ones. Near where I grew up in Illinois, there is a gigantic Baha'i temple (which looks like half of a bra, by the way). Near where I lived in Culver City, CA, across La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles proper, there's a Baha'i community center; it was damaged in the 1992 civil disturbance.)
On 5/10/06, uvj at vsnl.com <uvj at vsnl.com> wrote:
> Sandy Harris wrote:
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> > Iranians are Persians, not Arabs!
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> CIA World Factbook provides the following data on the ethnic and linguistic composition of Iran:
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> 1. Ethnic Groups:
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> Persian 51%, Azeri 24%, Gilaki and Mazandarani 8%, Kurd 7%, Arab 3%, Lur 2%, Baloch 2%, Turkmen 2%, other 1%
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> 2. Languages:
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> Persian and Persian dialects 58%, Turkic and Turkic dialects 26%, Kurdish 9%, Luri 2%, Balochi 1%, Arabic 1%, Turkish 1%, other 2%
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> CIA - World Factbook at http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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