Community | September 19, 2009 | 9 comments

Morocco: Dissident receives 100 death threats in a week for defying daytime eating ban for Ramadan

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8262787.stm

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In 'moderate' Morocco thou shalt not eat.

A Moroccan man campaigning to change the law banning eating in public during the Muslim Ramadan fast says he has received 100 death threats this week.

Radi Omar denied that his group was anti-Islam. "We are in favour of individual freedom," he told the BBC.

Six of his colleagues are in custody after planning to eat in public last Sunday and he demanded their release.

Mr Omar said they were being well treated but he assumed they were not being fed during the fasting hours.

The group, known as the Alternative Movement for Individual Freedoms (Mali), has more than 1,200 members on its Facebook site.

They planned a public defiance of the law at the train station in Mohammedia near Casablanca last Sunday but were dispersed by the police.

The protesters were prevented from eating and so should not have been detained, Mr Omar said, adding that they have not been charged.

Under Moroccan law, eating in public during the hours of daylight, when Muslims are supposed to observe a fast, can lead to a fine and up to six months in prison.
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9 comments // Morocco: Dissident receives 100 death threats in a week for defying daytime eating ban for Ramadan

  • FallenMorgan
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      FallenMorgan  

    • "People's lives are at stake and all you can come up with is this mindless crap. Such callousness and indifference."

      I'm not fucking indifferent to this man's issue. I'm just saying that this is not an example of all Muslims somehow being evil, which you make it out to be.

      "i don't reply to him any more, for just those reasons.
      my own little "shunning.""

      Oh, you're so morally superior to me. Lol.

      "i can't figure out where he's coming from, other than a pretty uniform Jews/Zionists are always bad, Muslims should ALWAYS have their violent actions considered in a "social context," etc., etc., ad nauseum."

      I never said that. I never said that Israel is pure evil while Hamas isn't. I think they're both behaving like children, killing innocent people in the process. And I never stated that extremist violence should be excused. It shouldn't be used as an excuse to hate Muslims.

    • 2 years ago
  • hunzedog
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      hunzedog  

    • ive grown quite fond of ignoring a few myself. somehow it feels sooo much better to just ignore ignorance, rather than try to argue with it........

    • 2 years ago
  • bielski
  • plusaf
  • FallenMorgan
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      FallenMorgan  
    • plusaf:

      You think I'm defending these violent individuals?

      I AM NOT

      I am defending the 1.3 Billion Muslims worldwide who are labeled as evil because of these fundamentalists and extremists.

    • 2 years ago
  • bielski
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      bielski [removed]  

    • ''Anybody who goes against cultural norms receives death threats.''

      Oh really? Let's have an example.

      People's lives are at stake and all you can come up with is this mindless crap. Such callousness and indifference.

    • 2 years ago
  • FallenMorgan
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      FallenMorgan  

    • Anybody who goes against cultural norms receives death threats. It's not exclusive to the Muslim world. And most of these are just that - threats. Don't try to use this as an example of how "evil" Muslims are.

    • 2 years ago
  • locutus
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      courage  

    • Islam religion of Peace
      The woman who helped start this small movement has been missing since tuesday according to her sister who lives in France.source NPR radio

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
  • hollyMiamiFla
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