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Chinese restrictions on Ramadan flayed

by admin | May 25, 2021 | World

BEIJING: Chinese officials have restricted civil servants, students and children in a mainly Muslim region from fasting during Ramadan, government websites said as the holy month began on Monday.
The country’s ruling Communist party is officially atheist and for years has banned government employees and minors from fasting in Xinjiang, home to the more than 10 million-strong mostly Muslim Uighur minority.

It has also ordered some restaurants to stay open.

Dilxat Raxit of the World Uighur Congress, an exile group, condemned the restrictions in an e-mail Monday, adding: “China thinks that the Islamic faith of Uighurs threatens the rule of the Beijing leadership.”

A Uighur official in the city’s Tiekeqi township named Ahmatjan Tohti told a meeting on Monday last week that officials should “resolutely stop party members, civil servants, students and minors from entering mosques for religious activities” during the month, according to a separate report on the website.

A website run by the education bureau of Shuimogou district in the regional capital Urumqi posted a notice on Monday last week calling for “prevention of students and teachers from all schools from entering mosques for religious activities” during Ramadan.

Several local government departments in Xinjiang have posted notices on their websites in the last week ordering restrictions on fasting.

“Party members, cadres, civil servants, students and minors must not fast for Ramadan and must not take part in religious activities,” said a notice on the official website of the city of Korla in central Xinjiang. “During the Ramadan month, food and drink businesses must not close.”

(courtesy:http://www.arabnews.com)

London buses to carry ‘praise Allah’ ads during Ramadan

by admin | May 25, 2021 | Muslim World

London, (IINA) – London buses will carry adverts praising Allah as part of a drive by Britain’s biggest Muslim charity to help victims of the Syrian civil war during Ramadan, Evening Standard newspaper reported.

Islamic Relief said it hoped the posters, which bear the words “Subhan Allah”, meaning, “Glory be to God” in Arabic, will portray Islam and international aid in a positive light.

The adverts will be carried in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leicester and Bradford later this month.
Charity leaders hope it will encourage generous donations during the religious festival, which is expected to begin on June 6.

Organizers added they hoped the campaign will help young Muslims to focus on humanitarian work.

Imran Madden, the UK director of Islamic Relief, said: “In a sense, this could be called a climate change campaign because we want to change the negative climate around international aid and around the Muslim community in this country.

“International aid has helped halve the number of people living in extreme poverty in the past 15 years, and British Muslims are an incredibly generous community who give over £100 million to international aid charities in Ramadan.”

It comes as London has just elected Sadiq Khan as the city’s first Muslim mayor following an historic victory over Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith.

The capital is home to about half of Britain’s estimated three million Muslims.

Transport for London, which regulates the advertisements appearing on the city’s buses, does not allow posters linked to a “political party or campaign” but does not prevent religious ads.