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Zoroastrianism, the world's oldest monotheistic religion, was once followed by millions in ancient Persia, but today claims as few as 124,000 adherents worldwide. Despite fears of impending extinction, Indian Zoroastrians neither allow conversion into the faith nor recognize children of interfaith marriages, according to Ramiyar P. Karanjia, principal of a Zoroastrian religious school in Mumbai. These are some of the reasons why the community of 70,000, the world's largest, is declining by about 10% every decennial census, according to UNESCO...
...Nevertheless, says valley elder Sham Sher Khan, the way to counter the insurgency hasn't changed. He thinks reopening the timber trade would help. "The Taliban say they are fighting because there are Americans here and it's a jihad. But the fact is, they aren't fighting for religion. They are fighting for money," he says. "If they had jobs, they would stop fighting...
...unifying gloss that cricket gives to a nation like Pakistan is far too thin. Pakistan's doom is that religion continues to be the primary basis of identity for this artificially created state, to the detriment of everything else. While the state champions a rigid sense of identity, the land reforms and economic, social and legal reforms that are critical to nurturing democracy and development have been totally ignored by feudal lords masquerading as politicians and hell-bent on retaining power. East Pakistan split away to become Bangladesh; given half a chance, Baluchistan or some other restive regions would...
...potential to be performed either as a riveting commentary on the height of the AIDS epidemic and what it truly meant to live as a homosexual in this time, or as a sorry excuse for intertwining the clichéd dramatic motifs of death, abandonment, love, religion, and truth. Friday’s opening on the Loeb Mainstage—directed by Sara L. Wright ’09—overflowed with a vitality that managed to make these overdone themes appear refreshingly novel.The three-hour-long piece (schedule your dinner plans for before curtain call!) is a series...
...lead. In California, Chief Justice Ronald George declared that from now on, any laws that discriminate against gays in California are presumptively unconstitutional and will be subject to "strict-scrutiny" analysis by the courts - a burden that is reserved in every other state for cases involving discrimination against religion or immutable characteristics such as race. By extending it to homosexuals, the California court made clear in a way that no other state court has that gays are deserving of fundamental protections...