Fasting

Fasting

European football leagues adapt to Ramadan: Breaks for fasting players gain momentum Across Europe, an increasing number of football leagues are implementing or renewing specific measures to allow their Muslim players to break their fast during evening matches.

March 3, 2025   

(Yabiladi) Every Ramadan, a debate resurfaces among football enthusiasts and professionals about introducing breaks to allow Muslim players to break their fast. This year, several federations and leagues worldwide are extending this exceptional measure, while others, such as in France, have remained silent […]

Academics & Education

Schools adopt varying approaches to Ramadan fasting As the number of schools with Muslim pupils grows in Finland, some are providing guidelines on Ramadan fasting, while others are not.

March 2, 2025   

(Yle) The number of schools with Muslim pupils is steadily increasing. As a result, some schools are taking a stance on children fasting during Ramadan which began on Friday. Ville Raatikainen, head of basic education at the city of Helsinki, told Finnish […]

Academics & Education

Frankfurt teachers impose Ramadan rules on 5th graders Students were forbidden from drinking water in class because three of the 27 children were fasting.

March 20, 2024   

(European Conservative) In the name of tolerance, diversity, and inclusion, some public school teachers in the Frankfurt metropolitan area in Germany are unilaterally imposing Islam — arguably the world’s most intolerant religion — on their pre-teen students. For the Islamic holy month […]

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French Football Federation opposes match breaks for Muslim players in Ramadan This contrasts with the decisions of countries like England and Germany, who have allowed measures to give Muslim players a chance to break their fast before resuming the match.

March 13, 2024   

(Morocco World News) The French Football Federation (FFF) has once again opposed the implementation of breaks during matches for Muslim players to break their fast during Ramadan. According to converging media reports, the FFF’s Federal Referees Commission (CFA) sent an email to […]

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Muslim inmate files lawsuit claiming Virginia prison won’t accommodate Ramadan observances Green Rock inmate seeks damages, injunction; action claims 20 others also denied

April 3, 2023   

(Washington Times) A Muslim inmate at the Green Rock Correctional Center in Chatham, Virginia, is suing for what he claims is the prison’s denial of accommodations during Ramadan, a monthlong religious observance that calls for fasting from dawn to sunset. Alexander Crichlow […]

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Muslim inmate sues US jail for denying halal, timely meals during Ramadan Norman Simmonds was denied a halal diet because the jail could not 'confirm the devoutness of his beliefs,' according to lawsuit filed with help of Cair-Georgia

April 19, 2022   

(Middle East Eye) A Muslim prisoner in the US state of Georgia has filed a lawsuit challenging his detention facility’s refusal to provide him halal meals during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The lawsuit, filed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations […]

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US prison denies some inmates from fasting during Ramadan, rights groups say Some Muslim inmates in Virginia were not able to receive meals before sunrise or at sunset, three rights groups said

April 28, 2020   

(Middle East Eye) A number of Muslim prisoners in Virginia have been denied the right to fast during the holy month of Ramadan because prison management received “too many” requests, three rights groups said. Muslim Advocates, the Islamic Circle of North America’s […]

Academics & Education

Islamic advocacy group wants apology for Seattle school’s ‘inappropriate’ remarks A Seattle elementary school allegedly asked parents to consider allowing their children to eat on state testing days, which coincide with Ramadan.

March 13, 2019   

(KING) An Islamic civil liberties group called on Seattle Public Schools to apologize for what the organization called “inappropriate” remarks in a letter sent to parents on Tuesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations Washington says when the district announced the year’s state […]