I was delighted to learn that some Zoroastrian Kurds were invited to the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress in Perth recently ("I will not budge,” Zoroastrians Abroad, Parsiana, June 21, 2018). Recent reports attributed to someone who visited the Kurds indicated that there are around 200,000 Zoroastrians there. If true, that would double the number of Zoroastrians in the world!
The excellent treatise Conversion in Zoroastrianism: The Truth behind the Trumpery by two eminent scholars, Prof Kaikhosrov D. Irani and Farrokh Vajifdar, 1996, clearly establishes, with several references to our scriptures, the acceptance of conversion in our religion, not forceful but......