Don’t Be a Nuisance

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Clarissa

March 6, 2026

In Barcelona today, the Office of Religious Affairs has asked that ALL schools in Barcelona cancel music and dance classes for the month of Ramadan as a “gesture of respect” for the Muslim population.

That’s called colonisation. https://t.co/ElGAYH1HLd
— Eve Barlow (@Eve_Barlow) March 5, 2026

We, Orthodox Christians, somehow manage to celebrate Pascha (which does not coincide with the Catholic and Protestant Easter) without making a nuisance out of ourselves. Our priests remind us every year that making an issue of our fast to others is a sin. If the choice is between eating what you shouldn’t and rubbing your fasting virtue into other people’s faces, the choice should always be to accept the food quietly and not make yourself the center of attention. The moment when the fast becomes a way to lord it over others, we have betrayed the whole point of the fast as mandated by the Lord.

Yes, we are only 1% of the population. But Muslims are only 5% of the population in Spain. These are comparable numbers. You can be a minority without being a dick.

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7 responses to “Don’t Be a Nuisance”

Anonymous

March 6, 2026

You can be a minority without being a dick.

Only if one’s religion and culture require it.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 6, 2026
  
  Jesuits, though:
  
  https://x.com/i/status/2029906363237949706
  
  I support exhorting people in a sermon not to use bad language. But getting them jailed?
  
  These are not the Jesuits I know from history.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    March 6, 2026
    
    In the meantime, a Senegalese child rapist in Spain gets sentenced to 60 days of community service:
    
    https://okdiario.com/baleares/pacto-verguenza-joven-senegales-que-violo-nina-piso-palma-no-entrara-prision-16305948#
    
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ShadowsCollide

March 6, 2026

I agree in not being a nuisance about religious beliefs, I’m a Catholic who doesn’t meat on Fridays and I don’t make myself a nuisance or call attention to it, I just don’t eat meat that day. My brother and mother aren’t Catholic so I just make a separate vegetarian dinner for myself and prepare regular food for them, I buy my own vegetarian food and prepare it myself without saying anything. Muslims love to make a nuisance of themselves and force everyone to obey their rules, Barcelona should tell them to pound sand but they’re so woke they’ll just bend over

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cliff arroyo

March 6, 2026

“making an issue of our fast to others is a sin”

I remember several years ago a foreign colleague was retiring and returning home. On one of his last days some people (from a few different countries and including me) very spontaneously decided to go out to a last dinner with him.

This seemed to pose a temporary problem for a muslim colleague as it was Ramadan in late May so sunset wasn’t until after 9 pm or so.

Rather than not go out with friends including the departing colleage or sitting there hungry in the restaurant watching us stuff our faces or trying to convince everyone to reschedule or wait until after sunset… they decided to break their fast early that day explaining that that is allowed and they would make up the that missed day soon after Ramadan was over.

Very reasonable and we all had a good time.

Moral: Reasonably normal people can be reasonable and a refusal to consider reasonable alternatives is a sign of a disturbed personality.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 6, 2026
  
  Yes. The performative bureaucrats who came up with this are very disturbed. Sick, sick bunnies.
  
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PaulS

March 7, 2026

We have lots of Muslims. They always volunteered to do the catering at school events, so we ended up eating halal.

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