{"id":125295,"date":"2022-05-15T18:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amordadnews.com\/?p=125295"},"modified":"2022-12-27T14:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T11:00:10","slug":"taliban-nowrooz-is-a-zoroastrian-custom-and-we-will-not-celebrate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=125295","title":{"rendered":"Taliban: &#8220;Nowrooz is a Zoroastrian custom and we will not celebrate it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Molavi Mohammad Sadegh Akef Mohajer, a spokesman for the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Defense, told a private media outlet that &#8220;we have only two Eids in Islam: the Eid al-Fitr and the Eid al-Adha. &#8220;There is no other Eid called Nowruz in Islam,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Nowruz is reserved for the Zoroastrians, and I do not see the need to celebrate Nowruz.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said whether the three Nowruz holidays would be observed next year: &#8220;It remains to be seen what decision the Department of Labor and Social Affairs will make, but it is unlikely that these three days will be holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Taliban municipality in Mazar-i-Sharif announced that the organization would hold the annual Nowruz celebration in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molavi Mohammad Sadegh Akef Mohajer, a spokesman for the Taliban&#8217;s Ministry of Defense, told a private media outlet that &#8220;we have only two Eids in Islam: the Eid al-Fitr and the Eid al-Adha. &#8220;There is no other Eid called Nowruz in Islam,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Nowruz is reserved for the Zoroastrians, and I do not see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}