# "Some people are looking for reasons to be offended"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-are-looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended/776415>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 5, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-are-looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended/776415 "2017-01-05T20:24:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ramira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ramira/32/344_2.png) [@Ramira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ramira)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-are-looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended/776415/81 "2017-01-11T22:31:48Z")

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> [@Aspidistra](#):
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> FWIW, [this](http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/muslim-children-walk-out-when-national-anthem-is-sung/news-story/840eddf907389ee812cd32351f023dd8)is a link to the start of the brouhaha I was thinking of, and I see that I misremembered the specific observance - it wasn’t Eid, it was Muharram. Which is not an observance I’d heard of before, hence my slightly garbled report.

As the article says, this is a Shi’a practice, it is not a general muslim observation - and it is indeed twelver shia. It is not common.

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**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-people-are-looking-for-reasons-to-be-offended/776415/82 "2017-01-11T22:34:59Z")

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> [@Ramira](#):
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> This is not a standard reflection, and the recitation of a national anthem in the schooling is not typically considered like a singing. the children in my country recite/sign the equivalent through the Ramadan. Of course there are some very puritanical type people who take this view, but it is not something standard.

Thanks! I was hoping someone would chime in, as some of the websites describing what can or cannot be done in Ramadan seem a little extreme. Perhaps for Ramadan 2017 you would be kind enough to start an an “Ask Me” thread.

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