[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Less

What a load of P.C. nonsense from a person that believes in 'live & let live', if someone chooses one way to live then, grand let them be free to live that life, but surely their way has to fit in with the majority, not the other way around?

I don't quite follow you there Less. If the non-Muslims had just eaten their own share of the food there would never have been a problem. It would have been live and let live. However, there were packs of food for the Muslims to break their fast with at dusk but these were also being eaten by the non-Muslims before dusk when they had their food so there was nothing left for the Muslims when it became their time to eat. They were trying to fit in with the non-Muslims until the non-Muslims ate their food too. Maybe an answer would be to have a table of food with a label "Muslims only" but that would probably have people complaining too.

So how would you solve it?

Here are people willing to join in the committee meetings at a time which runs over the hour at which they would break their fast. They have not asked for the time of the meetings to be changed in order to suit them. They were adapting their ways to fit in with the indigenous population (not sure if it was even a majority on the committees). They attended the meetings and when the non-Muslims had refreshments the Muslims simply didn't partake as dusk had not yet fallen. If there had been food left for them afterwards that would have been OK and there wouldn't have been a problem but there wasn't food left for them, so a solution seemed to be to ask everyone to wait and have their refreshments all at the same time so everyone got a fair share.

What is so intollerant about that?