in Spite of Corona, the following applies: For Muslims, the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, is also in 2020, a moving event. Shots of a Hessian IKEA store are now causing quite a stir.
On the evening of the 23. In may 2020, the Ramadan ended . In Wetzlar, the gathered several Hundred Muslims , to celebrate the event fittingly. Due to Corona* the believers to relocate to the Parking lot of a IKEA store .
Wetzlar – Since Saturday evening, the Ramadan 2020 is finished. Muslims around the world celebrate the end of the traditional fasting month, which this year on the evening of the 23. April had begun. Footage of celebrations from Wetzlar find now popular around the world because in the times of the Corona-pandemic* special situations require special measures.
Ramadan-by the end of 2020: open-air ceremony at the IKEA store in Wetzlar
So many Hundreds of Muslims gathered on Sunday in the Parking lot of a IKEA store of the Hessian small town, to celebrate the Ramadan-the end . Due to the contact restrictions* due to Corona, the ceremony was held Outdoors – and every Islam-believers had their own carpet. So also the required safety distance to the guy next to me was easier to comply with.
“In the 3000 square feet of Ditib-premises would have been genuine problems,” said Hüseyin Demirel, the Chairman of the foreigners Advisory Council and former Chairman of the Ditib community, the Hessischer Rundfunk. According to the city of the event, of three-mosque-communities logged in – including the controversial Islamic community Milli Görüs . These have renounced, according to the Federal protection of the Constitution, but from your extremist point of origin.
Ramadan Celebration at IKEA Parking lot: “This is what the world needs now”
Newspapers and Internet portals around the world have taken on the basis of the Coronavirus* exceptional IKEA-Ritual in your reporting. Carly Agro, a canadian journalist, tweeted to the Ramadan celebrations in Wetzlar: “Wow! This love and kindness is what the world needs now.” A US news portal published in his social networks a Video with further impressions, created obviously with the help of a drone:
Hundreds of Muslims gathered in this IKEA parking lot—while maintaining social distance for Eid al-Fitr prayers pic.twitter.com/lIXGLeFjTa
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 26, 2020
Kadir Terzi, Chairman of the Milli Görüs community in Wetzlar, Germany, said on the sidelines of the ceremony: “It was a very different Ramadan as otherwise – to break without contacts, visits, and without the Night together that fast.” Like most other people, Muslims have felt because of the Corona-Lockdown isolated and were glad to be able to together, pray together.
In the UK, this is due to the Corona scandal, the chief Advisor of the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson is in turmoil, employees, among others, the BBC and the Ramadan Celebration in Wetzlar.
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