The Executive of Muslims of Belgium (EMB) announced on Tuesday that the feast marking the end of Ramadan is scheduled for Thursday, June 13, 2021. It expresses its best wishes for prosperity to citizens of Muslim faith and all other beliefs and reminds them of the health and security measures issued by the government to curb the spread of the coronavirus in Belgium.
Many Moroccans are awaiting the government’s decision on whether or not to allow the Eid El-Fitr prayer in mosques. The tarawih prayers had been banned during Ramadan.
The recent violence observed in Al Quds Acharif and the Al-Aqsa Mosque is a concern for the Moroccan government. This is what the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made known this Sunday.
Fearing a surge in coronavirus cases, the authorities in Marrakech have decided, just a few days before Eid al-Fitr, to seal off the main exits of the ochre city to prevent crowds from moving towards this major tourist center of the kingdom.
Maghreb scientists and astronomers agree on the date of the end of Ramadan. Result: Morocco , Algeria and Tunisia will normally celebrate Eid al-Fitr together this year.
Casablanca now has a public halal slaughterhouse. Following an audit carried out by the Moroccan Institute of Standardization (IMANOR), "The Slaughterhouses of Casablanca" has just obtained its label, making it the first public halal red meat slaughterhouse in the kingdom.
The President of the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM), Mohammed Moussaoui, was received in audience on Friday by the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice. Accompanied by the new national prison chaplain, Mohamed Loueslati, he presented to Eric Dupond-Moretti "the state of Muslim prison chaplaincy".
In this sacred month of Ramadan, Moroccan associations in France are multiplying solidarity actions. A "Solidarity Iftar" was organized on Sunday, April 25 for the benefit of foreign students in France.
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Islamophobic inscriptions were found on the construction site of the new mosque in Talence. This act has outraged the entire Muslim community, which calls on justice to find and condemn those responsible.
Many Moroccans demonstrated last Monday in Marrakech to protest against the curfew and the ban on Tarawih prayers. The police arrested about ten people.
Former Minister of National Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem believes that "secularism is only regularly invoked to exclude Islam". She denounces the government’s "permanent attempts" "to make it a battlefield".
Kahina Bahloul, the first female imam in France, promotes, she says, an Enlightenment Islam that breaks with traditional religious practices. Her ideas are recorded in a work entitled: "My Islam, My Freedom". The Franco-Algerian now discusses her major problem, the lack of support from Algeria, Morocco or Turkey, which finance most mosques in the country.