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Sudan: Christians arrested and fined for selling food during Ramadan

Jun 17, 2017 11:00 pm By Robert Spencer

While Christians in the U.S. persist in assuming that Ramadan is an entirely benign religious observance, their coreligionists in Muslim countries do not have that luxury.

“Sudan: Fines Issued in Sudan’s El Gedaref for Selling Food During Ramadan,” Radio Dabanga, June 13, 2017 (thanks to International Christian Concern):

El Gedaref — The court in El Gedaref has fined people, including Christians, for selling food and tea during the fasting month of Ramadan.

More than 10 people received a fine of SDG2,000 ($298) each. Lawyer Ramzi Yahya told Radio Dabanga that public order police arrested them during a campaign last week.

“This is a clear discrimination against Christians and contrary to the slogans of religious coexistence launched by the Sudan Government for the international community.”

Yahya said that local restaurants have been barred from catering during Ramadan for two years in a row. “Meanwhile there are a considerable number of Christians and other people who excuse themselves from the fasting in El Gedaref.”

Freedom of Christians probed

The European Union Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief visited Sudan mid-March to inquire about the situation of Christians and the demolition of churches in the country. He pointed to the planned demolition of 27 churches and church buildings in Khartoum which was delayed after an appeal was made to the court by lawyers….

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  1. Oliver says

    Jun 17, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    Forget for a moment
    What will the muslims have to eat after sundown?

    I would assume that muslim food places
    Stores. Would be closed

  2. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 17, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    It is their religious duty to bring everyone into line with Islamic norms.
    ‘Old Moses’ proselytising on the street corner had nothing on this.

    • Lydia says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 6:54 pm

      Wrong. Christians do not line up with islamic norms because we are Christians, and that’s how it is. If anyone wants it otherwise, we will line them up with our Christian norms. If anyone wants to argue about ‘muslim countries,’ well guess what? They have no right to dictate to anyone about anyone else’s religion or that is a violation of human rights. And, two can play that game, in that case all the muslim migrants would have to comply with all the Christian norms in the countries where they are now guests; i.e. all of Europe! To the point where they are forced to align with the customs of our Christian religion. So ha!
      We will not comply with anything non Christian, and that is it, and that is the reply for any response yet future from anyone.

  3. Agha Ali Arkhan says

    Jun 17, 2017 at 11:31 pm

    Don’t sell food during a religious celebration if it’s against the law.

    • Jesper says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 1:22 am

      You surely understand nothing about the topic. Low IQ ?

      • Jerry says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 8:03 am

        Killing and terrorizing for religion is against the law too and so is raping kids and women, but that doesn’t stop muslims. If you’re so concerned about law and order go preach to your fellow muslims.

        • Jerry says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 8:04 am

          (for Jesper)

        • Jerry says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 8:05 am

          (Oh for cripe sake, I meant that’s for Agha Ali Arkhan. Sorry, I just woke up.)

    • Mark A says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 1:49 am

      Against whose law? Does Islamic religious law apply to Christians?

      • Eur says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 9:35 am

        Nor should it be applied to Muslims. That is tribalism. Religion must be personal, what is it that the state forces Muslims to fulfill religious themes? …theocracy.

        • Lydia says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm

          Exactly!
          No one can force any religious law on anyone because it is a personal thing and that’s why it is a human rights violation to try to impose it upon others. I’m not talking about morality laws that are common like not to kill, but specific observance laws.

      • Lydia says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 7:06 pm

        No, their religious laws don’t apply to us. Of course trying to tell these wild-eyed, irrational, fire-blazing a trail of terrorism types this basic logic about human rights, and the only response you will get out of them is a fiery-eyed scream and a whirl of their sword. But, the answer is still: NO.

        • ed cox says

          Jun 18, 2017 at 10:11 pm

          Try living in a muslim nation .

    • Eur says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 3:55 am

      The law? Compelling to comply with Ramadan is a theocratic law. That is not freedom. Anyone who wants to fast should fast but not be forced to do so. Fascists.During Nazi Germany it was also the laws that forced the denunciation of your neighbors. It is also the laws that say that you have to hang the homosexuals of cranes

    • Mo says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 8:58 am

      @ Agha Ali Arkhan

      “Don’t sell food during a religious celebration if it’s against the law.”

      Why do you believe in forcing non-Muslims to follow Muslim dietary laws?

      Also, I’m pretty sure blowing people up is “against the law” in all civilized countries in the world. Yet Muslims continue to break that law. Why?

      • Myrtle says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 6:07 pm

        They are not following the ONE who created it all, but the one determined to destroy it all, not knowing that he, himself and his followers will be destroyed, in the end, unless they repent and turn away from evil to GOD!! Muslims do not accept the CREATOR as their GOD but honor HIS enemy, Satan!!

    • Islam_Macht_Frei says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 11:07 am

      More to the point – don’t be a non-Muslim, if that’s against the law

    • Shane says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 12:43 pm

      How about you Muslims stop trying to impose your idiotic religious laws on non-Muslims. How about you Muslims stop killing, raping, oppressing, persecuting, and enslaving non-Muslims too!

    • Lydia says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 6:56 pm

      Of course we can sell food, it’s not our religious celebration. But they are willfully ignorant and don’t respect the human rights of others. They want to bully everyone under some guise of compulsion that claims ‘ouch, you’re hurting me because you’re not going along with my game!’

  4. mortimer says

    Jun 17, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    LINDA SARSOUR is a perfect example of a ‘moderate’ Muslim who LIES about JIHAD.

    While less than 1% of Muslims are militant jihad fighters, 15% approve of the jihad fighters and 100% of Muslims conduct VERBAL JIHAD by lying about, concealing and denying the meaning, motives and methods of jihad.

    REPEAT: LINDA SARSOUR IS A ‘MODERATE’ … that is, she practices VERBAL JIHAD. Taqiyya is a synonym for VERBAL JIHAD.

    • Djandel says

      Jun 17, 2017 at 11:37 pm

      The west never know…

    • Islam_Macht_Frei says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 11:10 am

      She is the worst form of an “Uncle Tom” imaginable.A complete sell-out of women’s interests and rights, masquerading as a fighter for women.

  5. Trish says

    Jun 17, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    That bitch is still around nazi rat

  6. Trish says

    Jun 17, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    We have mentally insane people too

  7. ItsReallyQuiteClear says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 12:26 am

    Absolutely astonishing!!!

    Muslims don’t want to impose sharia on anyone? I suppose that’s why 45 Muslim nations signed the “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam”, in lieu of signing the UN’s “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. Here are articles 24 and 25 of that declaration, which is so often misinterpreted as referring to sharia:

    ARTICLE 24:

    All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari’ah.

    ARTICLE 25:

    The Islamic Shari’ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification of any of the articles of this Declaration.

    Nope, doesn’t sound those 45 signatory countries believe that sharia supersedes any other authorities.

    It is worth noting that Linda Sarsour’s Tweet said “There is NOT ONE example”. Maybe there are countless examples?

  8. Benedict says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 1:39 am

    “Freedom of Religion” in Islam is an Orwellian term. It means the freedom of Muslims to impose sharia on anyone and everyone everywhere at any time.

    • Benedict says

      Jun 18, 2017 at 1:48 am

      PS:
      And in the West “Freedom of religion” has taken on the meaning of infidels imposing sharia on themselves.

      • ItsReallyQuiteClear says

        Jun 18, 2017 at 2:01 am

        You’re right. And ironically, that makes those liberal infidels one declaration away from becoming Muslims.

  9. Georg says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 2:04 am

    If anyone plays on the “gullible” it’s Muslims. The nerve of them running around places like the UK claiming oppression when they are given such special treatment that it has resulted in thousands of English girls being systematically raped/molested WITHOUT CHARGE, not to mention the jihadism that flourishes due to fear of up upsetting their bigoted and hateful sensibilities.

  10. Bradley Lexvold says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 3:22 am

    They came to kill us at Garland. I haven’t forgotten that attempt at Sharia enforcement.

  11. notmoron says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 7:05 am

    Christians have been suffering in all Muslim countries, and the fake so called Christians in Western world are worried about Islamophobia

  12. John A. Marre says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 8:52 am

    Are they doing that in their fetid enclaves such as Hamtramk and Molenbeek? Whenever they are a majority, they force others to obey their laws, and the flaccid “White” “Christians” bow down in submission.

  13. Infidel Task Force says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 9:38 am

    Well…heres one example”
    https://www.thomasmore.org/news/sharia-law-gains-foothold-us-federal-judge-upholds-government-funding-islam/

  14. Infidel Task Force says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 9:39 am

    Heres one more….

    http://publicpolicyalliance.org/faq/ten-american-families-and-shariah-law/

  15. penelope says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 10:06 am

    islamaphobia term created by muslims to detract and deceive; it is in their dna.

    linda sarsour is another useful muslim idiot; surely she does not believe all that crap. check out the hadiths on women; that will turn your stomach for sure. is is unfortunate she is thoroughly brainwashed.

  16. Anne says

    Jun 18, 2017 at 6:44 pm

    State Department needs to reverse course and start pushing for FREEDOM FROM RELIGION rather than freedom of religion in certain parts of the world.

  17. FYI says

    Jun 19, 2017 at 6:53 am

    Linda really needs to wear a burqa.
    And stay at least 5 feet behind a man..on her knees.

    the angel jibreel told me that allah said that.

    So there you go;you can’t argue with that.

    allah has spoken.

  18. ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jun 19, 2017 at 1:33 pm

    Mr spencer, do you Christians observe 40 days fasting prescribed in your mithraist bible or that mithraist jesus did it for you?christianity is funny and a licence to hellfire for worshiping the satan appearing to Christians like a dove,which they call the holy spirit.if woman sells food to her fellow mithraist christians only,the sudanese court was wrong.However,it is part of treaty of togetherness that christians or any non_ muslim shall not tempt muslims to violate sharia like enticing muslims to sex or offering alcoholic drinks to Muslims.In this case ,food made by christians ,which is not from haram substances,is halal to Muslims. But where achristian offered even halal food to a muslim during fasting hours,such a christian has violated the treaty of togetherness and he can be punished accordingly.mr spencer,don’t you think such punishment is justified not a violation of humang right?

  19. More Ham Ed says

    Jun 20, 2017 at 12:47 am

    Ham sandwiches for breakfast, ham sandwiches for lunch, ham sandwiches for dinner, from sun-up to sun-set.

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