{"id":16035,"date":"2024-03-30T07:35:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/happy-ramadan-displayed-in-london-during-easter-weekend\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T07:35:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:05:18","slug":"happy-ramadan-displayed-in-london-during-easter-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/30\/happy-ramadan-displayed-in-london-during-easter-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Happy Ramadan&#8217; Displayed in London During Easter Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>London has been decorated with light displays for Ramadan, which coincides with Holy Week and Easter weekend this year.<\/p>\n<p>Easter, one of the most important Christian holidays, has been all but eliminated as the city honors the Muslim celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Light displays read \u201cHappy Ramadan\u201d in public areas.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>While London features an abundance of Ramadan light, there was not one display for the \u201c31 million Christians in England,\u201d conservative account End Wokeness wrote on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Central London is now blanketed with Ramadan lights over Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Not a single display for the 31 million Christians in England. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r2inu8SdlZ\">pic.twitter.com\/r2inu8SdlZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1773664181360709872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>According to the leader of the minority Tori group on Westminster Council, Paul Swaddle, a Ramadan display was featured in the window of Westminster\u2019s city hall offices.<\/p>\n<p>The display was not changed for Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing I would question is this: there has been a Ramadan celebration in the window of Westminster city hall,\u201d Swaddle said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2024\/03\/27\/ramadan-lights-on-display-in-central-london-over-easter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Telegraph<\/a>. \u201cBut I just wonder if the Easter one is going up very soon? Easter is one of the most important Christian festivals of the year but what are they [the Labour Council] doing to celebrate it? I am not aware they are. I suspect the window display is not going to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tim Dieppe, head of public policy at Christian Concer, told GB News, \u201cIt seems like people are more concerned to mark Ramadan than they are Easter. Islam is gaining in terms of influence, and Christianity is now being forgotten about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted the displays are an \u201cinteresting cultural moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8216;They are more concerned to mark Ramadan than they are Easter. Islam is gaining in terms of influence, and Christianity is now being forgotten about.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Head of Public Policy, Christian Concern, Tim Dieppe, reacts to a Ramadan display lighting up London over Easter weekend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/efY0uttu7L\">pic.twitter.com\/efY0uttu7L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GB News (@GBNEWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBNEWS\/status\/1773764938814615932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/happy-ramadan-displayed-in-london-during-easter-weekend\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London has been decorated with light displays for Ramadan, which coincides with Holy Week and Easter weekend this year. Easter, one of the most important Christian holidays, has been all but eliminated as the city honors the Muslim celebration. Light displays read \u201cHappy Ramadan\u201d in public areas. While London features an abundance of Ramadan light, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}