[ April 23, 2024 ]
Ramadan isn’t about piety and spirituality. It’s about coercion, as this story shows, force and mass killing.
“Tunisians protest for right not to fast during Ramadan,” AFP, June 11, 2017:
Tunis (AFP) – Dozens of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday to demand the right to eat and drink in public during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and to protest against non-fasters being arrested.
Story continues below advertisementThere is no law against eating or drinking in public during Ramadan, but every year the issue comes to the fore in the North African country.
Tunisia’s constitution guarantees “freedom of belief and conscience”, but the state is also the “guardian of religion”.
Following a call by the “Mouch Bessif” (Arabic for “Not against our will”) group, protesters in central Tunis shouted that “Individual freedom is guaranteed by the constitution!”
One man openly smoking a cigarette — this is also deemed unacceptable during Ramadan daylight hours — held a placard in French that asked: “Why does it bother you if you fast and I eat?”
Demonstrators also protested against the arrest of people who were not fasting.
At the beginning of June, four men were sentenced to a month in jail for “public indecency” after eating outside during daylight….
Most cafes and restaurants in Tunisia close during the day in Ramadan, and those that open do so discreetly.
As this year’s fasting month began, a media-oriented preacher went round cafes open during the day to record footage of clients and shame them in a move that was heavily criticised on social networks.
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9 Comments
6 years ago
Its about coercion and intimidation. The man in the protest march smoking has been arrested for smoking during Ramadan !
Left/liberals welcome islamonazis into EU and they settle down and practice art of torturing and killing infidels in preparation for jihadi attacks http://bit.ly/2tlUWt3
And what do the dumb Left/Liberals do ? Run away !
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Omg! Omg! Omg! I wish I hadn’t clicked on that link in your post! Omg! Omg! I am a Huge Animal Lover!
I wonder what Lefty Liberal PETA is doing or saying about that!
Oh Dear God! I am crying! I couldn’t barely read or look at that! Omg! I am so Angry!
We ALL should send that to PETA and ALL of these LIBT4RD LUNATIC CELEBRITIES that are Animal Lovers too!!
6 years ago
Reply to
BooBooBaby
Not surprising. There are numerous YouTube videos showing arabs in Gaza and the West Bank torturing animals including dogs, cats, sheep and cattle. (Don’t search for them without a vomit bucket.) It is so bad that the Australian government now forbids shipping live animals to Gaza.
There is also the infamous photo from Tehran in which as many as a hundred dead dogs – people’s pets – have been laid out for public display by the religious police. The caption in Farsi (Iranian) states that after several days without food, water or shelter from the sun the dogs are killed by injection of sulfuric acid – an excruciating death that can take several minutes. But hey! That’s Islam in action. They look be so proud…
How is that multicultural enrichment working for you these days? Yeah. Thought so.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
That was pretty disgusting. I’d have no problems gunning down those muslum vermin.
6 years ago
The movie-title “Fast & furious” is probably code for Ramadan.
Tobacco-smokers regardless when however better respect my right for tobacco un-scented, fresh air.
Muhammad-cult out of Africa!
#Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, the Biafra-leader, the Leavenworth 10, Israeli soldier Azaria, Salim Masih & so on.
6 years ago
Heretics and apostates, they are not long for this world.
6 years ago
I thought Tunisia became an officially secular country after the 2011 Arab Spring? Apparently their democracy still has a very long way to go…
