The prohibition of the celebration of two Muslim festivals in the gymnasium of the city of Jumilla arouses an outcry which brings together the secular left and the representatives of the three monotheistic religions.
One for everyone for Dios? The prohibition of the celebration of two Muslim festivals in the gymnasium of the city of Jumilla arouses an outcry which brings together the secular left and the representatives of the three monotheistic religions. An unusual ecumenism and a national controversy provoked by a motion presented by the right (popular party, pp) to murcie power, which itself found an openly Islamophobic text proposed by the only elected representative of Vox (extreme right).
The habit in Jumilla was that the Muslim community uses sports facilities for collective prayers on the occasion of the two most observed festivals of the year: the end of Ramadan (Aid El-Fitr) and Eid-el-Kébir (“big party”, also known as Aid Al-Adha, “feast of sacrifice”). In this city of 27,000 inhabitants of the Murcia region, in eastern Spain, including some 7% of Muslims, the municipal councilor of Vox had set out to ban the public celebration of Muslim festivals because “foreign to Spanish traditions“, But also”actively promote Spanish traditional gastronomy and butcher shop“Faced with halal preparation, and, more generally, to prevent the installation of foreign cultural practices which”affect social cohesion, create internal conflicts, uprooting and erosion of national identity».
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