10.05.06
Zoroaster di Iran
Bagaimana sebenarnya hubungan suatu agama minoritas dalam sistim Islam? Koran Guardian menurunkan sebuah artikel mengenai kehidupan agama Zoroaster di Iran. Ada quote menarik:
Yet many Zoroastrians say they feel better treated by their Muslim fellow-countrymen than under the last shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Paradoxically, they attribute this to the uniform dress code imposed by the 1979 Islamic revolution, combined with a decline in religious prejudice among younger Muslims.
“Before the revolution, all Muslim women in my home town of Yazd wore chadors and only we Zoroastrians didn’t,” said Goharbanoo, 40. “The Friday prayer leader ruled that on Fridays, Zoroastrian men had to wear white and women traditional clothes. It meant people could recognise us easily and they would be very rude to us. When we went into a grocer’s shop, we wouldn’t be allowed to touch the fruit. We even sat on separate benches at school and had separate drinking water.
“Thanks to the revolution, everyone dresses the same now. People back then were more religious. Today’s generation is ashamed of the prejudice of their ancestors.”
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