Thus spake Zarathustra?

I would guess that most of my readers would, if anything, I guess think of a book by Nietzsche with that title. However, it really is about the original founder os Zoroastrainism, which is still a living religion and has its own struggles in Iran where it was birthed. It's meant to be a religion that Islam recognises but that doesn't mean all is well as this article outlines. I was, ofcourse, interested to note that this religious community expresses it's resistance to Islamic rule in its language,

They also conversed noisily in a pre-Islamic form of Persian stripped of the modern Arabic loan words used by their Muslim compatriots

We should note the compliance that dhimmitude breeds;

requiring worshippers to observe Islamic dress in their own sacred place, the high-level visit illustrated the second-class status of Zoroastrianism - believed to be the world's oldest monotheistic faith - in its land of origin.
Kourash Niknam, the sole Zoroastrian MP in Iran's parliament, insisted the gesture was voluntary. "We just wanted to show respect because it is they who rule and we are living in their community," he said.

Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | Ancient religions clash in modern Iran
Filed in: Zoroastrain, Iran, Persia, contemporary