• bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    30 days ago

    I don’t think it should need to be said, but even orthodox Muslims recognize exceptions to fasting during ramadan for starvation and bodily injury.

    Pretty sure that’s the joke. It’d be real absurd if a cartoon acted otherwise.

    • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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      30 days ago

      The joke only works if the reader holds the Islamophobic view that Palestinians were starving because their faith forbids them from eating, and not because Israel was starving them by blockading humanitarian aid.

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        29 days ago

        Nah, that’s the commentary. If “starving because of religion” is a silly fabrication, what’s the reality?

        Israel was starving them by blockading humanitarian aid.