"Some people are looking for reasons to be offended"

[Ramira]

@Aspidistra

FWIW, thisis 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.

[The_Devil_s_Grandmother]

@Ramira

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.