Did no one tell Yara it was Ramadan?
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Lebanese singer Yara was taken to a police station by her driver in Algeria after she refused to stop smoking in accordance with the country’s Ramadan laws, reported the UAE’s Gulf News on Thursday.
Yara, a Christian, took out a cigarette and began smoking whilst being driven from Setif, east of the capital Algiers, to Constantine, also in the east.
She refused to put the cigarette out after her driver, an Algerian who was fasting, asked her to do so.
Angry with her response, the driver took her to the police station in the city of Chelghoum Laïd to report her to the authorities, accusing her of disrespecting Muslims and the month of Ramadan.
The police informed her that she was not allowed to smoke in public during Ramadan in Algeria, a majority Muslim country, even though she was a Christian. She was asked by the Algerian police to show some respect to Muslims and Ramadan and to refrain from smoking.
Muslims fast in the month of Ramadan every year, during which, they abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and being involved in sexual activities from sunrise till sunset. However, Muslims are permitted to break the fast if they are sick, pregnant, a nursing mother or making a long journey.
Do you think it's unacceptable to smoke in public during Ramadan? Or is this over the top? Tell us what you think below.
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THIS driver is a cry baby , if you can not handale your job espicialy a taxi driver who can pick up in his car all kind of pepole chines, french ,american ,muslim or christian , so just because you fast you wanna make the whole world fast too , she was only smoking for God's sake not eatting .... he is fake he should respect the fact that she has diffrient religon and can do what ever she wants ...tipecal UNEDUCATED ARAB
I am a Christian living in Dubai, where we have over 200 different nationalities and every major religion from around the world. I and everyone I know tries to be respectful of Islam and show some basic consideration for our Muslim friends and colleagues during Ramadan. I don't fast, but I don't eat or drink in public, as it's very inconsiderate to those who are fasting. If Yara was driving herself or had a driver who didn't object to her smoking, that would be fine, but her choice to smoke in a confined space when someone asked her not to - especially someone who viewed it as disrespectful of his religious practices - was plain selfish. What a diva!
"Do you think it's unacceptable to smoke in public during Ramadan? Or is this over the top?"
It wasn't in public, it was in the man's car... I doubt anyone would have complained if it was out in the open, but in a confined place, people would hate you for smoking and not stopping when asked.
So yea it's unacceptable to smoke when it's not even your car.
its over the top. People who do not fast (for any reason) should not be forbidden to normally live there lives just because others decided to refrain from eating and drinking during day light.
