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Comment on Persia is Iran, Iran is Persia, Iran is not Iraq, and Persia is not Bosnia by Women leaders coop

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Comment on Persia is Iran, Iran is Persia, Iran is not Iraq, and Persia is not Bosnia by Luigi Kleinsasser

Luigi Kleinsasser — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:34:49 +0000

and Iraq also has a majority of Shi’a Muslims. Maybe the religious connection will be suffient for the two countries to \unite\ and become the major force in the Middle-East?

Comment on Persia is Iran, Iran is Persia, Iran is not Iraq, and Persia is not Bosnia by Luigi Kleinsasser

Luigi Kleinsasser — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:31:16 +0000

great information. I had read that both Saladin and Saddam belonged to the Al Bu Nasir, a powerful Kurdish Sunni tribe from the Tikrit area. Was Saddam actually Kurdish? But ignored his tribal roots espousing secularity over religion? Or was he Arab and merely born at Ad Dwar close to Tikrit, a Kurdish region?

Comment on Persia is Iran, Iran is Persia, Iran is not Iraq, and Persia is not Bosnia by davinci

davinci — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:09:05 +0000

The Babylonian Empire and the Persian Empire both pre-date Islam and the Arab-Islamic Empire. Saddam Hussein styled himself as an Arab conqueror in the style of Saladin (conveniently ignoring that Saladin was a Kurd, a people whom he despised and persecuted). He has nothing to do with the Persian Empire. The connection between Iraq (ancient Mesopotamia) and Persia (now Iran) is that the Persians conquered and ruled Babylon, the capital of Mesopotamia. (This conquest plays a significant role in the Bible, as it freed the Jews from the Babylonian captivity.) The Persian Sassanid Empire was later overrun by the Arab Islamic conquests. So it's a little more than a mere "border dispute" -- each side has conquered and ruled the other's heartland. Iran is still a linguistically and culturally Persian country, and is not "Arabic" in any way other than being predominantly Muslim. (And even there, Iranians distinguish themselves from their Arab neighbours by being primarily Shi'ites.) -- davinci

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Sliding Down » Wranglin’ the Web: — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:32:27 +0000

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Comment on Persia is Iran, Iran is Persia, Iran is not Iraq, and Persia is not Bosnia by Luigi Kleinsasser

Luigi Kleinsasser — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:32:52 +0000

Very interesting site. Saddam Hussein was reputedly aiming to re-unite the Persian Empire with him as the new Saladin who also came from Tikrit. Was there ever any real connection between what we now know as Iraq and Persia (Iran). There have been border disputes over the ages but were the two ever connected? Iraq consists mainly of “Arabs” and Persia of Aryan descendants but is Persia now more Arabic than Aryan? Or are both countries as Arabic as they are Islamic?

Comment on Persian Soft Keyboard and Applications for Android by davinci

davinci — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:13:44 +0000

You sound like you’re doing everything that I would have tried. I’m not familiar with the device or the ROMs you mention. I’ve had success with CyanogenMod, although it doesn’t look like it’s available for your phone. Without the device in my hands, I can’t really say what you need.

– davinci

Comment on Persian Soft Keyboard and Applications for Android by davinci

davinci — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:11 +0000

Why are you trying to install a ROM on an emulator? Most likely this will not work, since the emulator does not perfectly simulate an Android device. In particular, its boot code is quite different from that found on physical devices.

I’m not involved in the development of Arabic Android. I have not seen the source code and cannot comment on it.

It sounds like you’re trying to do development without a phone or a system that’s been properly set up.

– davinci

Comment on Persian Soft Keyboard and Applications for Android by Hamid (haloo)

Hamid (haloo) — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:02:47 +0000

Dear: Davincy
You are a unique person and have a very nice character, rarely a programmers have such a patience that you have. Thank you so much for your Persian Soft Keyboard App. I do have a Galaxy I7500 which is a forgotten smart phone by Samsung. I rooted my phone and I installed Drakaz Galaxo 1.6.3.3, replaced DroidSansFallback.ttf with new ones from different sources on the web, and then installed your keyboard plus a messaging App named Mirsal. Now, I do not see just square boxes any more on Persian sites. But, the problem is character connection and right to left order of characters. I downloaded Persian Browser, the three versions from the Bohloo site but when I try to install them I get parsing error message no matter what. I have updated the three SO (libwebcore …) files from an Arabic site but when I reboot, it goes into a loop and never pass the first screen, removing these three Lib files brings it back to square one.
I read that Android 2.0 and above have right to left writing support in the kernel, so I installed Mustymod 1.03b and went through all of the work all above with no avail. Now I am back to Galaxo 1.6 again. I can copy text from Persian web pages and paste them into Marsil an empty message, save it and then reopen it. Then the text shows very nicely, all characters connected correctly and in right to left order. Do you think I am doing something wrong or not doing something where I should do? Thank you so much for the hard work and wish you success in your goals.
Sincerer greetings
Haloo