Comments on: Tajikistan: Politicized Navruz http://www.neweurasia.net/2008/03/27/tajikistan-politicized-navruz/ Sat, 17 May 2008 04:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: namatA nikaR http://www.neweurasia.net/2008/03/27/tajikistan-politicized-navruz/#comment-86476 namatA nikaR Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:16:33 +0000 http://www.neweurasia.net/2008/03/27/tajikistan-politicized-navruz/#comment-86476 "If a foreigner watches Navruz on Tajik television, he would think that it is either a president’s birthday or his pre-election campaign." Yes. It was discussed in the KG and UZ branches too: sadly, Nawruz, itself a meaningful celebration, has been recuperated and hollowed out/disneyfied by kafir regimes for their ludicrous 'national ideologies' (=basically myths and kitsch). They did that wil 'folk Islam' too. The result will be that Nawruz and 'folk Islam' will get discredited and marginalised. “If a foreigner watches Navruz on Tajik television, he would think that it is either a president’s birthday or his pre-election campaign.”

Yes. It was discussed in the KG and UZ branches too: sadly, Nawruz, itself a meaningful celebration, has been recuperated and hollowed out/disneyfied by kafir regimes for their ludicrous ‘national ideologies’ (=basically myths and kitsch).

They did that wil ‘folk Islam’ too. The result will be that Nawruz and ‘folk Islam’ will get discredited and marginalised.

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