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bcjdjsndon
16 hours ago
> Meanwhile the middle-east population is fleeing and being replaced with asians?
Persians brought Hinduism to India, so maybe they're returning the favour
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rnoises
15 hours ago
Eh? Persians gave the name "Hindus" to the people living in that area. But they had their own religion, Zoroastrianism. They didn't bring Hinduism because they didn't have Hinduism.
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bcjdjsndon
14 hours ago
Indians called it hinduism, but it came from iran.
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OutOfHere
6 hours ago
It was then the shared pre-Zorastrian Indo-Aryan Vedic religion.
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OutOfHere
6 hours ago
Uh. Zoroastrianism was a "reform" of Iran's Indo-Aryan religion that was closer to Vedic Hinduism.
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