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From: Omar Ibn Al Khatab Khalifat Al Muslemin
To: Yazdgird III Shahanshah of Persian Empire"Yazdgird, I see not a fruitful future for you & your nation unless you accept my offer & commit Bei'at (Joining with Khalifat & bringing Islam). Once upon a time your land ruled half the known world but what has it come down to now? Your troops are defeated in all fronts & your nation is bound to collapse. I offer you a way to rescue yourself. Start praying to a mono God, a single union God, the only God who created everything in the universe. We bring you & the world his message, he who is the true God. Stop your Fire Worship, command your nation to stop their Fire Worship which is false; join us by joining the truth. Worship Allah O Akbar the only true God, The creator of universe. Worship to Allah & accept Islam as your salvation. End your Pagan ways & your false worships now & bring Islam so you can accept Allah O Akbar as your savior. By doing so, you will find the only way to your survival & peace for Persians. If you know what is best for Ajam (Arabic term for Persians meaning Retarded & Weird), you will choose this path. Bei'at is the only way."
Allah O Akbar
Khalifat Al Muslemin,
Omar Ibn Al Khatab
And here is King Yazdgird III, historical respond to Omar (Calif of Arab Muslims)
From: Shah of Shahs, Shah of Persia and Beyond, Shah of many Kingdoms, Shahanshah of Persian Empire, Yazdgird III Sassanid
To: Omar Ibn Al Khatab, Khalifat of Tazi (Persian term for Arabs),
In the name of Ahura Mazda, creator of Life & Intelligence,You in your letter wrote that you want to direct us towards your God, Allah O Akbar, without having the true knowledge of who we are & what do we worship! It is amazing that you occupy the position of Khalifat (Ruler) of Arabs, yet your knowledge is the same as a lowly Arab rambler, roaming in deserts of Arabia, & same as a desert tribal man!
"Little Man" (mardak) you offer me to worship a united & single God without knowing that it has been thousands of years that Persians worship the mono God & they pray to God Five Times a day! In this land of culture & art this has been the normal path of life for years.
When we established the tradition of hospitality & good deeds in the world & we waved the flag of "Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds" in our hands, you & your ancestors were roaming the deserts, eating Lizards for you had nothing else to feed yourselves & burying your innocent daughters alive (an old Arab tradition, cause they preferred male children to female)!
Tazi people have no value for God's creatures! You behead God's children, even the POWs (Prisoners of War), Rape Women, bury your daughters alive, attack the Caravans, mass murder, kidnap people's wives & steal their property! Your hearts are made of stone, we condemn all these Evil which you do. How can you teach us Godly Ways when you commit these action?
You tell me to stop my Fire Worship! Us, Persians see the Love of Creator & power of inventor in the light of Sun & warmth of Fire. Lights & Warmth of the Sun & Fire makes us see the light of truth & warmens our hearts to the creator & to one another. It helps us to be kind to one another, it enlightens us & makes us to keep Mazda's Flame, alive in our hearts. Our lord is Ahura Mazda & it is strange that you people also, just discovered God & re-named God, Allah O Akbar! But we are not the same as you, we are not in the same level as you. We help other human being, we spread love among humanity, we spread Good throughout the Earth, we have been spreading our culture but in respect for other cultures throughout the whole world for thousands of years, yet you in the name of Allah invade other men's land! You mass murder the people, create famine, fear & poverty for others, you create Evil in the name of Allah. who is responsible for all this catastrophe?
Is it Allah who commands you to murder, pillage & to destroy?
Is it you the followers of Allah who do this in his name?
Or Is it both?You have risen from heat of the deserts & burnt out infertile lands with no resources, you want to teach people the love of God by your military campaigns & the power of your Swords! You are Desert Savages, yet you want to teach Urban people like us who lived in the cities for thousands of years, the love of God! We have thousands of years of culture behind us, a powerful tool indeed! Tell us? With all your military campaigns, barbarianism, murder & pillage in the name of Allah O Akbar, what have you taught to this Muslim Army? What knowledge have you taught the Muslim that you also insist on teaching it to non Muslim? What culture have you learned from your Allah, now that you want to force-teach it to others?
Alas, Oh Alas...... that today our Persian Armies of Ahura have been defeated from your recently Allah Worshiping Armies; Now, our people have to worship the same God, the same Five times a day, but forced by the sword to call God: Allah & pray to God in Arabic, cause your Allah only understands Arabic!
I suggest, you & your gang of bandits pack up & move back to your deserts where they are used to live. Take them back where they used to the burning heat of the sun, tribal life, eating Lizards & drinking Camel Milk. I forbid you to let your band of thieves loose in our fertile lands, civilized cities & our glorious nation. Don't turn these "beasts with hearts of stone" loose, to mass murder our people, kidnap our women & children, rape our wives & send our daughters to Mecca as slaves! Don't let them do these crimes in the name of Allah O Akbar, put a stop to your criminal behavior.
Aryans are forgiving, warm, hospitable, & decent people and everywhere they went, they have spread seeds of friendship, love, knowledge & truth; therefore, they shall not punish you & your people for your pirate ways & criminal acts.
I beg you to remain with your Allah O Akbar in your deserts & do not move close to our civilized cities, for your believes are "Much Fearful" & your behavior is "Most Barbaric"!
Yazdgird III Sassanid
639 C.E. - After successfully defending itself against the Roman Byzantine Empires for centuries, the Persian Empire was swiftly vanquished by arabs (brutal nomadic tribesmen) armed with a newly acquired faith, Islam. There were four Sassanid kings in four years, and because there was no real authority, the Arabs were able to defeat the Persians, who were still Zoroastrians.
The history of Persians after the Arab conquest can be summarized in three words: oppression, misery and massacre. The Arabs invaded Persia not only for its reputed wealth, but to bring into the faith new converts and to impose Islam as the new state religion. They were religious zealots who believed that "in a religious war if one kills or is killed, one's place in heaven is secure". To impose the new religion, the old culture and creed had to be destroyed. Therefore first they targeted the libraries, universities and schools. Only few examples reflect the enormity of the calamity that befell upon Persia at 630 C.E. To conquer Persia and force Islam, the Arab invaders resorted to many inhumane actions including massacre, mass enslavement of men, women and children, and imposition of heavy taxes on those who did not convert.
641 C.E. - When the Arab commander Saad ibn-e Abi Vaghas faced the huge Persian library of Ctesiphon (capital city), he wrote to Omar (Calif/Ruler of Arab Muslims): what should be done about the books?. Omar replied that the "blasphemous" books are not needed, as for us only Koran is sufficient. Thus, the huge library was destroyed and the books or the product of the generations of Persian scientists and scholars were burned in fire or thrown into the Euphrates. Later by the order of another Arab ruler (Ghotaibeh ibn-e Moslem) in Khwarezmia, those Persians who were literate with all the historians, writers and Mobeds were massacred and their books burned so that after one generation the people were illiterate. Other libraries in Ray and Khorassan received the same treatment and the famous international University of Gondishapour declined and eventually abandoned, and its library and books vanished. Only few books survived, because the Persian scholars quickly translated them into Arabic in order to save them.
It was a tremendous loss. Our knowledge would be richer and, potentially, our path from the ancient world to the modern world would have been shorter and easier, had some of these works survived.
646-660 C.E. - Mass massacre and conversion: By the order of the Arab commander "Yazid ibn-e Mohalleb" in Gorgan so many Persians were beheaded that their blood mixed with water would energize the millstone to produce as much as one day meal for him, as he had vowed and ordered the soldiers to cut off the tongue of anyone who dared to speak Persian. This is why in Arabic, Persians are called "Ajam", meaning mute! The event of blood mill has been quoted by the generations of historians and Persian Zoroastrian families to this day, yet our books of history have been silent about it. In recent years however, disenchanted Persian scholars have been writing about the blood mills and in fact this event has been reported by our historians of the Islamic era. On the way to Mazandaran (northern Iran) the same commander ordered 12,000 Persian captives to be hanged at the two sides of the road so that the victorious Arab army pass through. Upon arrival, many more were massacred in that province and heavy tax (Jizya) was imposed on the survivors who did not convert.
One of the Umayyad Caliphs was quoted saying: "milk the Persians and once their milk dries, suck their blood."
Some historians have estimated that a total of 400,000 Persian civilians were massacred. After the battle of Alis, the Arab commander (Khalid ibn-e Valid) ordered all the prisoners of war be decapitated so that a creek of blood flows. When the city of "Estakhr" in the south put up stiff resistance against the Arab invaders, 50,000 residents were slaughtered. One of the battles by the Arabs has been named, "Jelovla" (covered), because an estimated 100,000 bodies of the slain Persians covered the desert. It is reported that 130,000 Persian women and children were enslaved and sold in the Mecca and Medina markets and large amount of gold and silver plundered. One respected Persian scholar recently wrote, "Why so many had to die or suffer? Because one side was determined to impose his religion upon the other who could not understand". The Arabs colonized, exploited, raped and despised the population. They even named the Persian converts "Mavali" or "liberated slaves". Persian women became second rate citizens when the Arabs conquered Persia in a very brutal way, they lost all their rights and consistently assigned a passive role in the society. Many Persian women joined the resistance fighters against the barbaric Arab oppressors and fought to the end, they rather chose to be cut to pieces by the Arab Sword, than to become a slave or whore in the Arab Bed. Nevertheless history reflects the extent of atrocities committed by the Arab conquerors.
"Persians have developed a surprising ability to adapt, but only outwardly, superficially & when absolutely required. Persian culture is both very strong & resilient. Iran was neither truly Arabized nor Islamized."
Arab Taziz Raping and Killing Civilians in Persia and enslaving women and children
Arabs Raping and Enslaving women and selling them in Mecca and Medina markets
Women actively took part in many of the future movements for freedom of Iran and repossession of their human rights from Arabs. Women were the most oppressed segment of Iranian society by the Arabs and they were a significant part of the many Revolutionary Movements of Iran including the Sanbad movement in Neyshabour of Khorasan (Northeast of Iran), Ostadsis' movement in Sistan (Southeast of Iran), Moqanna' and Sarbedaran movement in Khorasan (Northeast of Iran), and Babak Khoramdin's movement in Azerbaijan (Northwest of Iran).
Video: Gordafarid, one of the heroines in the "Shahnameh:" Epic of Kings
820 C.E. - Arab rule over Persia began to diminish. The Arabs ruled parts of Iran for some 80 years, before local Persian princes emerged in Sajestan and Khorassan. It was indeed the darkest chapter of Iran's history and has been compared to a nightmare associated with the moans of widows and orphans, "a dark night of silence that was interrupted only by the hoot of owls and the harsh sound of thunder". Finally the Arabs were driven out of Persia. Various local Persian monarchs rose to power: the Tahirids (821-873), Saffarids (867-903), Samanids (873-999), Ziyarids (928-1077) and Buyids (945-1055).
The lost ancient Persian language was restored and it soon blossomed into one of the most poetic languages of the world. The Samanids were the first to adopt Persian as the official language of their court. Once again, Persia became a world center for art, literature and science. It was renowned for the impulse that it gave to Iranian national sentiment and learning. All the cultural, scientific and philosophical advances of the so-called Islamic world came out of Iran, and were advanced by Iranian minds. And so these advances were not Islamic, but Persian.
"It's about being who you were born to be... a Queen..."
click here to read the entire timeline. A journey through time: 7000 B.C.E. to Present day. »
Persian Identity - Iran has never been an Arabic country and never will be! Iranian people have very strong ties to their history, culture and language, which are distinctively Persian. They are very proud of their rich heritage, strongly admire their former King of Kings, especially Cyrus the Great and his legacy of introducing human rights in a political setting of the first humane and equal Federal World Empire. Another reason for which Persians dislike being mistakenly identified as Arabs is because Arab Islamic army conquered Persia in a very brutal way and forced them to change their religion, and customs by the edge of a sword. When Arabs conquered Persia they destroyed our style of Humane Federalism, Equal Rights, Freedom of speech and Freedom of religion and replaced those factors with central brutal government, prejudice and slavery. But Persian culture and rich history conquered them! Persia is the only country which didn't become an Arab country (like Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Phoenicia and all the other ancient countries conquered and destroyed by Arabs) and in spite of centuries of invasions and foreign rule by Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols etc. Persia has retained its own strong identity.
For centuries Arabs has tried to destroy our culture, our language, science, poetry, literature, philosophy, religion, race, traditions, celebrations, music, arts and of course our Calendar. They never fully succeeded! Wake up Persia!
"Don't forget our brave and mighty Lions and Lionesses!"
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it destroys itself from within."
The Future - Iran today stands at the crossroads of history and we live in remarkable times, and thanks to the tyranny of the islamic republic, we are now able to shed the Islamic past and move ahead into the future. A future without Islam, or any other organised religion. In this, we are far more fortunate than the rest of the world, for once this regime crumbles into dust, the tyranny of religion will never again raise it's ugly head in our land, for we will never forget. Islam as an Arab ideology has been a disease for Iran and Iranians and the only people who have truly once and for all uprooted Islam from Iran are the Mullahs themselves in only three decades. In a way, we should be grateful to them for this remarkable achievment.
For us, there is no going back to the superstitions of the distant past. There is only the future, where Pan-Iranism, Atheism, Equalism, Democracy & Freedom awaits us... Today, there are an estimated 226 million Iranic people and Persian speakers worldwide.
For millenniums when invaders came to Persia, the Iranians never become the invaders; the invaders became Iranians. Their conquerors were said to have "gone Persian," like Alexander, who, after laying waste to the vanquished Persia, adopted its cultural and administrative practices, took a Persian wife: Princess Roxana, and ordered thousands of his troops to do the same in a mass wedding. Persians seem particularly proud of their capacity to get along with others by assimilating compatible aspects of the invaders' ways without surrendering their own; a cultural elasticity that is at the heart of their Persian identity.
"The Invaders Can't Control What's Inside Us"
We would like to end by saying that we are certain that light will overcome darkness/fanaticism, and Persia, alike the legendary bird "Simorgh of Shahnameh", will once again rise from her ashes and regain her rich history. Persia, has always been home to those who throughout history have fought for the idea of freedom and equality.
"May God (Ahura Mazda) always light your path and bless you with lessons to grow by!"


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When the going gets tough, the tough get the world's most decorated peacemakers. At least, that seems to be the case with Honduras, whose de facto leaders have agreed to welcome a delegation composed of the likes of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Costa Rica's current President Oscar Arias.
Both men are proud bearers of a Nobel Peace Prize for brokering peace deals between bitter violent foes; Carter at Camp David in 1978 for the Middle East, and Arias in the following decade in Central America.
Arias has so far failed to get his San Jose Accord signed by the men for whom it was intended — Honduras' deposed President Manuel Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti. Their signatures would seal the deal on a plan that proposes to see both of these leaders back together in government again, this time in a power-sharing regime of reconciliation.
Clearly, Costa Rica's Arias could not go it alone. But now with Carter on the team, maybe the peacemakers are prepared to play ball. The former president claims he will provide a supporting role. "He is not offering himself as a mediator," Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo told CNN, "but rather supporting the mediation of [Costa Rican] President Oscar Arias and the Organization of American States mission."
Micheletti's nod to the team was a bit of a turnaround for the leader. Micheletti has said Arias is a "puppet" of international interests and "has ceased to be a proper mediator."
But the de facto leader might feel more comfortable now that the mission could also include Panamanian Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela, who represents a government that may be the closest thing to a regional ally Micheletti's got. While the international community has expressed that nations won't recognize the results of Honduras' upcoming presidential elections, Panama came out last week saying it would, as long as the vote is fair and transparent. The recently elected Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli — one of Latin America's few standing conservative leaders — reportedly has maintained an open line of contact with the Micheletti administration and offered to serve as a mediator.
Meanwhile, what a time to campaign for a presidential election. Each candidate probably dreads the chilly global rejection he could face if elected in a vote held in the current climate. They must be nervous. Although they almost unanimously have ruled out Zelaya's return to power, they've been publicly endorsing Arias' mediation process. Like it or not, it's still the only proposal. Let's see what President Carter brings to the table.

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Last night, RDJ and Nathan Fillion promoted Avengers at the end of the latest episode of Castle. Here's the clip:
God, I love these two guys.
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Last night, RDJ and Nathan Fillion promoted Avengers at the end of the latest episode of Castle. Here's the clip:
God, I love these two guys.
@k4tzm4n: Favorite line is RDJ saying "I'm Iron Man and you're not." But seriously, they need to give Nathan Fillion a Superhero movie. He would totally rock it.
@Gambit1024: You know, Pym was the first thing that came to mind when I thought of Nathan Fillion. I mean besides Green Lantern.
@Gambit1024: Either way works for me. He's got the magic to make either role work.
@Gambit1024: So how long do we have to wait for a Ant-Man movie?
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@TheGreyOutcastX: I'm praying within the next 3 years. Edgar Wright swears that he's been tooling the script, but he's been saying that since 2008. Just the other day, when (I think it was Avi Arad or someone who works in the Marvel Entertainment department) was asked "What projects are getting the most attention at the moment, Ant-Man, along with Dr. Strange and Guardians of the Galaxy were his answers. There's an unnamed Marvel movie slated for 2014(or 15) that isn't Thor 2. I'm really hoping that's Ant-Man's spot.
I know in a recent interview, Kevin Feige said 2 out of the following four (Ant-man, Inhumans, GotG, and Runaways) were closer than people realize. So who knows? :)
Here's the interview:
However, the producer added with a smile when asked about the possibility of an Ant-Man, Runaways, Inhumans or Guardians film, "Two of those four are much closer than people realize, and we'll be talking about them in the coming months!"
@Gambit1024: Agreed. He's an original Avenger. It's like saying no to GL or Flash on the Justice League. It's a crime to all fans.
- A Nathan Fillion cameo in any role would be a nice touch, even if just for a few lines
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- A Nathan Fillion cameo in any role would be a nice touch, even if just for a few lines
ahh yes, two of the most likable guys in Hollywood
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Ok this is a cartoon i made that is supposed to resemble WWIII. Its old so bear with me. http://showcase.sfdt.com/viewmovie.php?t=19062
This is the First anime based cartoon i did. I was rushed so the end didnt turn out the way i wanted. It got cut short and i didnt have time to go into effects. Atleaste the hairs sumwhat realistic right? anyways here it is.
This animation is very old and im currently in the process of making a remake which will be more graphic, longer, and of course, anime based. Theyll be alot more in it and they wont look so fake but until then youll have to settle for this.
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Merging the threads, merging the posts and putting it in the AMV section...
Wow that was a big modification. I never seen u do that moving it and merging and renaming wow. But yeah anyone got anything to say about em? btw hassun i couldnt find the amv section so i put it in sencory perception thing
the third one is new right?
lots of cool explosions, though there was this red dude with crazy long hair that I didnt understand what he was doing... and then the yellow army was firing at the two other dudes fore like an hour and none of them died..... u should edit that battle... the song was cool and the jet blowing up the guard was cool... I liked it... and 1800 plus frames PHEW I used to make videos like that, thats long.... so a lil advise from me: edite that battle between the yellow army and those two dudes if u can.....
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Actually number 3 was very old. Im remaking the whole thing. The yellow ppl didnt die becuase the guy in the red with the long hair was mind contorlling them. THere for they felt no pain and kept on fighting. The black guy used telekinesis to throw the truck. Im a lot better now you should see my bran new cartoon called Bushido, the blind samurai, here it is now. Actually, the servers down atm so u cant view any cartoon, and i cant find the link. Give it a day it will come back up.