What to Know About Nowruz, a 3,000-Year-Old Festival Celebrated by Millions Worldwide

Time ^ | MARCH 19, 2024 | Koh Ewe

[nickcarraway]

Lest anyone think otherwise, Nowruz is not a Muslim holiday. In fact, Islamics hate it.

[NWFree]

Sounds like some weird crap my mentally deranged ex wife would get into while she worships rocks

[HIDEK6]

Do we have to care about this?

[InkStone]

John 3:19
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

[Fido969]

Older than Festivus?

[Responsibility2nd]

At least Nowruz is more legitimate than Kwanzaa. A fake “holiday” with origins of violence and torture.

[CodeToad]

Nope. Never heard of it, don’t care.

[PGR88]

Nowruz - otherwise known as “Applebees’ Two for $25 entrees promo!”

Hurry in to Applebees for your Nowruz special today!

[moovova]

As long as it isn’t “Endless Skrimp Night”.

[griffin]

So....i gotta ax then....
....at what social activity did you meet said ex-wife?

[caddie]

Google, Starbucks, Apple, all these social media companies, not to mention Madison Avenue, are shoving this third world garbage down American throats and I say to them: Shove it.

We don't give a shit about your clown culture. Get it out of my face. Go back home and live it up.

It's obvious you came here to try to replace Judaism and Christianity, and you have failed.

We tried to be nice and pretend that we were vaguely interested in your pagan shit customs but we are not.

Plus, if we were foolish enough to go to your countries and seek acceptance we would be treated like shit. So cram it you idiots. Read books about our culture and religion. And shut up. We don't care about your culture nor should we.

[NWFree]

At a New Year’s Eve party when she was 15 before she went nuts

[No name given]

Well said.

[No name given]

Not really, no.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I am HTB's complete and utter sense of indifference.

[BenLurkin]

Zurwon spelled backwards.

[scottiemom]

Is this the festival where they sacrifice their firstborn? Yeah, I heard about this before.

[xkaydet65]

If the Greeks lose to Persia at Marathon or Termopylae Zoroastrianism could have been our religion. The Three Wise Men likely celebrated Nawroz.

[Honest Nigerian]

Another name for sun worshipping.
What bikini to wear today?

[maro]

It means literally “new light.” Same words in Latin would be “Nova Lux.” The Persians are Indo-Europeans.