Green Energy
by Joan Burnie
Spot on me Julie! Article from the Daily Record
- Muslims Banned From Fasting During Ramadan – Local Leader Warns Of Resistance To Chinese Rule
This is the equivalent of banning guns because people kill people. Instead of dealing with the real problem of why Muslims commit Jihad (because the Koran tells them to), the Chinese are banning fasting. Religious people all over the world have been...
- Military Bans Bibles But Forces Soldiers To Adhere To Ramadan Rules
Obamascum The US Air Force kicked Christian Gideon’s volunteers off base in March. The Bibles were too offensive and violated the separation of church and state rule.But US military personnel are expected to adhere Islamic practices during...
- Lent: The Christian Ramadan
From Aurora at the Midnight Sun: Let’s just create a new religion for Europe. Call it Chrislam or perhaps Istianity. Hot on the heels of the comments of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the country that brought us Geert Wilders, now brings us a solution...
- The Repercussions Of Ramadan
Echo:Isaac, I've been meaning to ask you this about Ramadan "fasting." It strikes me that it is not fasting at all but a resetting of your eating clock, so that you are eating at night and not during the day. What the blazes does this prove??...
- Ramadan—aka "starving For Allah"
The month of Ramadan is the holiest month in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar. This is the month when it is the duty of all Muslims 12 years and older to fast from dawn till dusk. How long one fasts depends on where that Muslim is—in Dubai the duration...
Green Energy
Let's use the loaf in Ramadan row
by Joan Burnie
TWO Scottish NHS trusts have decided all their staff should be banned from eating at their desks during next month's Ramadan when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk.
They will also be removing the vending machines and lunch trollies from their hospitals during the 30-day period.
As far as I know, all female members of staff have not been ordered to wear the veil, yet...but give it time.
This kind of heavyhanded, bending over backwards, PC nonsense does not help anyone, not least Muslims.
Being told you mustn't munch a sandwich or drink a coffee for a month in case it gets up others' noses is bound to create irritation as well as resentment.
But, if NHS Lothian and Greater Glasgow must go ahead, how about a little consistency? No one is allowed to eat chocolate during Lent for Catholics and Anglicans who're temporarily giving it up, no ham at any time, lest it offends any Jews and, indeed, vegetarianism imposed on everyone because of the Bhuddists.
Nor will there be medical cover or food at all on the Sabbath, just in case there's a Wee Free around. And, naturally, there'll be no more blood transfusions ever because that would upset the Plymouth Brethren. Ridiculous. Yup.
No one should be prevented from practising religious observances or beliefs but neither should they be imposed on others.
Besides, surely the whole point of Ramadan is to test the ability to resist temptation - which means there has to be something to resist... even a colleague's packet of salt and vinegar crisps?
Spot on me Julie! Article from the Daily Record
- Muslims Banned From Fasting During Ramadan – Local Leader Warns Of Resistance To Chinese Rule
This is the equivalent of banning guns because people kill people. Instead of dealing with the real problem of why Muslims commit Jihad (because the Koran tells them to), the Chinese are banning fasting. Religious people all over the world have been...
- Military Bans Bibles But Forces Soldiers To Adhere To Ramadan Rules
Obamascum The US Air Force kicked Christian Gideon’s volunteers off base in March. The Bibles were too offensive and violated the separation of church and state rule.But US military personnel are expected to adhere Islamic practices during...
- Lent: The Christian Ramadan
From Aurora at the Midnight Sun: Let’s just create a new religion for Europe. Call it Chrislam or perhaps Istianity. Hot on the heels of the comments of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the country that brought us Geert Wilders, now brings us a solution...
- The Repercussions Of Ramadan
Echo:Isaac, I've been meaning to ask you this about Ramadan "fasting." It strikes me that it is not fasting at all but a resetting of your eating clock, so that you are eating at night and not during the day. What the blazes does this prove??...
- Ramadan—aka "starving For Allah"
The month of Ramadan is the holiest month in the Hijri (Islamic) calendar. This is the month when it is the duty of all Muslims 12 years and older to fast from dawn till dusk. How long one fasts depends on where that Muslim is—in Dubai the duration...