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Thursday, 6 August 2009
"The holy month of Ramadan"
In the midst of the BBC 6pm Radio 4 news there was a long piece on swine flu with a rather odd emphasis on Iran and the Haj. The BBC report also referred to "The Holy Month of Ramadan". Excuse me it not my holy month, it is not a British hold month, it is the Muslim holy month. Just as with referring to the Muslim prophet as "the prophet Mohammed"; the BBC seem ever willing to take the Islamic line.
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I noticed on the local buses in SW London (maybe elsewhere too) an advert from some NHS anti-smoking quango offering help to "give up smoking in time for Ramadan". I must have missed the ones for Lent.
I was in Kuala Lumpur a couple of years ago. All the restaurants were advertising "Special Ramadan Feast".
It seems they eat nothing all day, but immediately the sun sets, they go and stuff themselves.
What a fast, sorry farce.
Brian E. OK in the tropics, i suppose, where sunset's about seven o'clock. What about Muslims in Finland - Land of the Midnight Sun?
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