Has anyone seen Fairline?

[techumseh]

He's MIA. Has anyone heard from him?

[Stefan Härtel]

MIA?

[Prometeus]

Originally posted by Stefan Härtel
MIA?

Missing In Action.

[curtsibling]

I miss his high quality units!

[fairline]

MIA but not KIA - I've been in Malaysia for a couple of weeks

[curtsibling]

Lucky man!

[Jimmywax]

Originally posted by fairline
MIA but not KIA - I've been in Malaysia for a couple of weeks

Since you are back, you should probably have that rash checked out.

Just kidding, I am sure you did not indulge in the local sights.

[fairline]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Jimmywax
Since you are back, you should probably have that rash checked out.

Maybe I should see a Doctor about it...

Seriously, though, the Malays would take a machete to your private parts if you so much as looked at a woman. Then there's the missuss...

[Jimmywax]

Originally posted by fairline
Seriously, though, the Malays would take a machete to your private parts if you so much as looked at a woman. Then there's the missuss...

Are they Islamic? I can never remember who is over there. Oh well, I have a bad habit of grouping all asians together in my head. I had it explained to me one time that most of the nationalities over there feel no connection to each other. I probably should never visit Asia, I would probably make an ass of myself and just give more credence to the theory of American stupity.

[Stefan Härtel]

Malaysia is Islamic, as is a great part of Indonesia. But you definately shouldn't group all Asians as Islamic, that'd be a horrible mistake. Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore etc aren't Islamic, for example (and that's only a small selection)
China has a large Islamic minority, but the vast majority of people there are Buddhists, Lamaists (a fraction of Buddhism), Taoists and Confucians. The Japanese are mostly Buddhist and Shintoist...

[techumseh]

What about the Persians, Stefan?

[ravagon]

Originally posted by techumseh
What about the Persians, Stefan?

-- Warning. Extremely long post imminent --

[Stefan Härtel]

Show-off

To make it short :
99% of the Persian (Iranian) population are Muslims. 90% are Shi'ites, the rest being Sunnites (mostly Kurds, who are centred around Tabriz, but also populate parts of the Zagros region). The original (that is, pre-Islamic) faith of Persia, Zoroastrianism, is practiced in some small communities in the south; it is nowadays centred in Mumbai (Bombay), much to the dismay of local authorities (there is a nice anecdote of some official who is being annoyed by the towers of silence, where the Zoroastrians "bury" their dead -they leave them on towers to let the vultures get them-); you will also find some Christian communities in Iran, some of which are very old (during Roman times, the Persian Empire was a point of refuge to the Christians, though most only went to Mesopotamia); although Iran is strictly a Shi'ite state, only one faith, the Baha'i, is banned (propably because it's too heretic).

[fairline]

Originally posted by Jimmywax
Are they Islamic? I can never remember who is over there. Oh well, I have a bad habit of grouping all asians together in my head. I had it explained to me one time that most of the nationalities over there feel no connection to each other. I probably should never visit Asia, I would probably make an ass of myself and just give more credence to the theory of American stupity.

The native Malays are Islamic, but there's a significant Chinese and Indian population in the cities. I think you were probably thinking of Thailand (which is Bhuddist) - you can really catch some interesting diseases there....

[Boco]

Enough about diseases! How was the food? The heat brings tears to my eyes, but I love Thai and Indonesian.

Btw have you ever tried your legendary hand at WWI airplanes?