ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65028657
Just so Muslim players can break their fast, not so they can pray!
Just so Muslim players can break their fast, not so they can pray!
Premiership matches to be paused for Ramadan
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Alderman Barnes
Vital Squad Member
So there's going to be a short drink and snack break in a match most of us don't give a toss about. The world's gone mad.
jokerman
Vital Football Hero
Then the Good Friday Catholic and High Anglican Fasters will want their break plus reparations for decades of pain.
Our school made an general announcement regarding students and being aware of fasting over Ramadan. Then requests from students for absences and deferrals from tests on these grounds appeared. I was not aware of them before. Today I got my first request for absence on Good Friday citing religious grounds. On the individual level, I'm fine with it and make adjustments -Lord knows I do it for kicking balls and playing instruments and feeling stressed- but at another level, its the rise of sectarianism in the public space.
Our school made an general announcement regarding students and being aware of fasting over Ramadan. Then requests from students for absences and deferrals from tests on these grounds appeared. I was not aware of them before. Today I got my first request for absence on Good Friday citing religious grounds. On the individual level, I'm fine with it and make adjustments -Lord knows I do it for kicking balls and playing instruments and feeling stressed- but at another level, its the rise of sectarianism in the public space.
Lozzy-Hove_Gill
Vital Reserves Team
and is this bad thing? What is your problem? I think we have tolerant society that recognises both human (player) welfare and religious beliefs. Nearly &% of the UK population is Muslimhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65028657
Just so Muslim players can break their fast, not so they can pray!
valenciagill
Vital Football Hero
The orchestrated replacement of our culture continues.
ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
Did the Muslim students get exemptions from the tests?
jokerman
Vital Football Hero
No. My serious point is not to suggest a specific group is getting treated worse/better but to note the kind of reasons on which requests are based.
Tolerance for beliefs is one thing.
(Although whether religious beliefs should be given special privileges over other beliefs seems at odds with "equality".)
Tolerance for cultural practices should be separate and conditional not absolute.
Why should one set of cultural practices trump another set of practices - based on the former claiming religious justification ?
How is that consistent with "equality" (or "tolerance") ?
If a response is to say that the requested break is "no big deal", why is football is dragging its heals over 'concussion substitutes' ?
The latter at least have an objective justication unlike those other breaks.
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The Holy Spirit
Vital Squad Member
Yeah bloody Muslims and their *checks notes* water breaks...
Whos making you fast or be a Muslim, its called a choice. I love living in a free country where people can choose (or decline) their religion and be respected. Its gonna be a quick break that affects no one. We have drinks breaks all the time.
Sorry some brown people from a land far away make you so uncomfortable. Do you know anyone who lives in another country that they didn't grow up in the culture of and probably still do English things despite being in a foreign land. Awful if an English person inflicted that on the Spanish.
If it harms or trumps others then no it shouldnt happen but if it affects no one, doesnt hurt anyone and is just respecting someones views and ways then its fine.
Two wrongs dont make a right. You are spot on though that concussion subs not being a thing by now is beyond a joke. Health is paramount.
Id hope if I lived in another country id be respected if what I did affected no one else.
You know the whole Christian thing is from the middle east right and was imported, or does that not count? I am from a Christian background although dont believe myself.
jokerman
Vital Football Hero
Not much left of it there, though.
We Catholics and other oddities used to have an opt out from the religious bit of Assembly at GGS. Marched in after the hymns for the announcements. Talk about making us separate! But our call, not the school’s.
Isn’t asking for a drinks break on the grounds of the possible consequence of religious observance bit naff?
ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
Kind of, but the question is whether we will still be living in a free country where we can choose (or decline) a religion in 30 years time?
I work in a multi ethnic department, where there is mandatory 2 days in the office per week. My Muslim colleagues are exempt this month as they are observing Ramadan, so it is just white, blacks and Indians that are coming in. It costs me £400 per month in train fare and station parking!
Vambogills
Vital Football Hero
Ha! Nice spot of 
for some pitchforks and flaming torches 3x6.
See you caught a couple.
for some pitchforks and flaming torches 3x6.See you caught a couple.
ThreeSixes
Vital Football Hero
Ha! Nice spot of
See you caught a couple.
I actually thought it was interesting though - are professional footballers really going to be able to perform at their maximum at 7.45pm if they haven't eaten or drunk anything since early morning?
The article that I linked said that the French FA weren't making similar concessions. They do things different in France
valenciagill
Vital Football Hero
Isn't that what the progressives want ?
A replacement of the people ?
Maybe the UK's Christians , homosexuals , women etc , will not have any issues under sharia ?
Vambogills
Vital Football Hero
Don't remember this concern when the drinks break was introduced in the warmer weather.
Maybe the great Jihad begins with an orange squash and a Snickers!
Maybe the great Jihad begins with an orange squash and a Snickers!
Solent Knight
Vital Squad Member
A bacon sandwich maybe.
