Ayatollah Khamenei boycotts Chahar Shanbeh Soori

I think you mean the proposed boycott, not the event itself. As for whom religious pressure on it affects: well, why the big deal about airport scanning? Who does it affect?

Give them time.

You fundamentally misunderstand: the festival isn't being "opted out" of, but rather "squeezed down on" using religious pressure and guilt. Given the history of Zoroastrians in Iran, this should be a warning bell.

Yet you belittle criticism directed at those who would eventually work to end the festival, which is not so commendable.

 

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when the opinions are held as law to such an extent they can abuse any within their little domain.

 

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What would happen if all the Iranians stopped celebrating the festival just like the Zoroastrians in India?

 

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Who knows? Who cares? Is it more relevant to you than the festival itself?

 

The security presence is for prolonging dictatorship through force.

And doing it poorly. Hence the repression and resistance there, and criticism here.

When the opinion in question is that certain political speech should not be allowed, and is backed with state violence.

 

Who cares? None of the Zoroastrians I know. But apparently, Muslim Iranians do.

Which is why, they still had the jumping over fire and fireworks, regardless of what their spiritual leader who apparently dictates all their opinions and actions globally said. How could that happen? They even burned images of the old Ayatollah in some of those fires and all they received in exchange was... a condemnation. From both the government and the reform parties.

And this merits a discussion on sciforums

/shakes head

 

Oh come on. There are many MANY holy holidays where people come out onto the streets and celebrate in Iran. This was targeted as "superstitious" because it's non-Islamic and based on Zoroastrianism. Which ironically is one of the few holidays in Iran that ALL Iranians celebrate.

THAT says something doesn't it.....

I personally put a bunson burner on the lab floor and defiantly hoped over it three times!

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Well then, that should take care of Chahr Shenbeh for this year/

I'm surprised they haven't scrapped all the Zoroastrian holidays yet. I wonder what it means to celebrate two new years, one of which isn't even remotely relevant.

 

It wasn't dictum, Sam: merely a representation of the ongoing pressure against the festival.

Simple. Insufficent pressure applied against the festival. "Pious Muslims shouldn't go". Etc. As if there were something even remotely immoral about it. It strikes me as very likely that more still will be applied. But, this is nothing new. Too bad the celebration isn't something as solid as a harmful statue that could be blown up.

And?

In some aspects of the discussion, we certainly agree.

 

Hehe. And to you, sir.

 

Exactly....