Happy Nowruz (21 Viewers)
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It has nothing to do with racist.
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Haji Firuz is based on the Zoroastrian priests.These priests were red and gard a big fire in the middle of temples day and night and because of smoke they face became black. Also the Tambourine he's holding used to be a part of some of Zoroastrian religious celebrations .
Slaveholding is a part of west countries history. In few centuries ago, Europeans Governments invasion african countries and after occupied there, plunder resources those countries to enrich themsalves and enslaved others for material gains. The US was also built on slavery and genocide against Native Americans
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Haji Firuz is based on the Zoroastrian priests.These priests were red and gard a big fire in the middle of temples day and night and because of smoke they face became black. Also the Tambourine he's holding used to be a part of some of Zoroastrian religious celebrations .
Slaveholding is a part of west countries history. In few centuries ago, Europeans Governments invasion african countries and after occupied there, plunder resources those countries to enrich themsalves and enslaved others for material gains. The US was also built on slavery and genocide against Native Americans
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That’s what they said about Zwarte Piet. 
Problem is that everyone who doesn’t know you is going to project their own social issues on you, like it or not. Especially as cultural awareness increases. That’s the double-edged sword.
Hence you have @Lapa asking for atheist festivals here without realizing Nowruz existed for over a millennium before Muhammad was even born … and hence we’ll before Islam existed.
That said, we all should celebrate Nowruz. I also love that festival where you celebrate nature. That speaks to my pagan Lithuanian ancestry.
Problem is that everyone who doesn’t know you is going to project their own social issues on you, like it or not. Especially as cultural awareness increases. That’s the double-edged sword.
Hence you have @Lapa asking for atheist festivals here without realizing Nowruz existed for over a millennium before Muhammad was even born … and hence we’ll before Islam existed.
That said, we all should celebrate Nowruz. I also love that festival where you celebrate nature. That speaks to my pagan Lithuanian ancestry.
Nothing is going to be wrong. Nowruz today is a secular and cultural celebration. I'll fast without losing nowruz celebrating, Ramadan can be done while having nowruz. Since i've not scheduled for traveling i'll stay at home. I greeting this new year to my relatives and friends through phone and social media. I mean it’s a cultural and historical event! People inherited it by their ancestors!
I understand you totally Siamak. Here in our town, every year we gather, go up in the mountain, and make sacrifices to the gods of our ancestors all day before sunset. It's a beautiful tradition, everyone is singing, dancing, having fun, and this year it falls in the month of Ramadan. But we are not worried, since you can't eat while you're making sacrifices, we won't have any problem with fasting Ramadan at the same time. Next to the sacrificial altar we even built a small mosque so we don't miss any prayers. Few years ago a guy somehow stole a baby elephant from the national zoo and we sacrificed it, then last year a local noble sacrificed his own newborn daughter which was born on the same day. It was an absolutely beautiful ceremony, I can't wait to see what everyone will prepare this year
