I prey the Kurds, and all religious minorities in the Levant, overcome the evil that has come to torture all the people’s of the world. “Babak has come back! History is repeating itself! Babak & Khurramdin’s Humane Reputation Arab historians tell us that it was Babak and Zoroastrianism / Khurramdin’s social message that attracted these followers. An example of the expression of his faith was the manner in which his army treated prisoners fairly and humanely (cf. Cyrus’ treatment of prisoners – he was more a liberator than conqueror). This was in marked contrast to the brutality with which the caliph’s army treated their prisoners. Babak’s prisoners were often set free on the promise that they would not fight against Babak’s army again. His administration improved the treatment of women and children giving them legal rights as people identical as men. When Babak was taken in shackles to be tortured and executed, women demonstrated their mourning without restraint, striking their faces and crying.