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Hundreds of Muslims celebrate at the end of Ramadan at a German IKEA branch - pictures are now going around the world

2020-05-28T15:41:45.181Z


Despite Corona, the end of Ramadan, the fasting month of 2020, is a moving event for Muslims. Recordings from an IKEA branch in Hesse are now causing a sensation worldwide.


Despite Corona, the end of Ramadan, the fasting month of 2020, is a moving event for Muslims. Recordings from an IKEA branch in Hesse are now causing a sensation worldwide.

  • The month of Lent Ramadan ended on the evening of May 23, 2020 .
  • Several hundred Muslims have gathered in Wetzlar to celebrate the event.
  • Due to  Corona *  , the faithful avoided the parking lot of an IKEA branch .

Wetzlar - Ramadan 2020 has ended since Saturday evening . Muslims around the world are celebrating the end of the traditional month of fasting that began on the evening of April 23 this year. Recordings of celebrations from Wetzlar are now popular all over the world - because in times of the corona pandemic * , special situations require special measures.

Ramadan end 2020: outdoor ceremony at IKEA branch in Wetzlar

On Sunday, hundreds of Muslims gathered in the parking lot of an IKEA branch in the small town in Hesse to celebrate the end of Ramadan . Due to the contact restrictions * due to Corona, the ceremony took place outdoors - and every believer in Islam had their own carpet. This also made it easier to maintain the required safety distance from the person next door.

"This would have been a real problem in the 3000 square meter Ditib premises," said Hüseyin Demirel, chairman of the foreigners' advisory board and former chairman of the Ditib community, Hessischer Rundfunk . According to the city, the event was registered by three mosque communities - including one the controversial Islamic community Milli Görüs , which, according to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, has renounced its extremist origin.

Ramadan celebration in IKEA car park: "This is what the world needs right now"

Newspapers and internet portals around the world have included the IKEA ritual , which is unusual due to the coronavirus *, in their reports. Carly Agro, a Canadian journalist, tweeted about the Ramadan celebrations in Wetzlar: "Wow! This love and kindness is what the world needs right now." An American news portal published a video on its social networks with further impressions, which were obviously also created 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

On the sidelines of the ceremony, Kadir Terzi, chairman of the Milli Görüs community in Wetzlar, said: "It was a very different Ramadan than usual - without contacts, visits and without breaking the fast together at night." Like most other people would have Muslims felt isolated because of the corona lockdown and were happy to be able to pray together.

In Britain, which is currently in turmoil because of the corona scandal surrounding Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser, the BBC was busy with the Ramadan celebration in Wetzlar.

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* Merkur.de is an offer from the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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