{"id":9249,"date":"2013-07-11T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9249"},"modified":"2013-07-11T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T12:59:46","slug":"how-will-ramadan-affect-the-egyptian-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/how-will-ramadan-affect-the-egyptian-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"How Will Ramadan Affect The Egyptian Protests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071013_2313_HowWillRama1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Protests over the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2013\/07\/07\/the_wikipedia_war_over_egypts_coup\">coup\/revolution<\/a> in Egypt continue, even as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramadan\">Ramadan<\/a> \u2013 a lunar month where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk \u2013 begins. Edmund Sanders looked at how this might affect the protests:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Egyptian military is hoping that protesters will find it hard to demonstrate as their energy wanes during the day.<\/li>\n<li>However many of the protesters feel that the holiday gives their protests an even deeper religious meaning. They are now sacrificing food for their country.<\/li>\n<li>The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to create a festive atmosphere in the areas where the protests are being held by laying carpets and planning moonlit soccer matches.<\/li>\n<li>Charities will also offer free food to the protesters after dusk, to ensure that the protests continue.<\/li>\n<li>It is possible that both the protesters and the military will be less violent as Ramadan is a month of charity and equality.<\/li>\n<li>Yet if one side perceives the other as acting against this festive spirit, it&#8217;s likely that this will add to the tensions between the protesters and the military.<\/li>\n<li>Fasting might also make the protesters and the soldiers more irritable, and thus violent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the rewards of martyring yourself during Ramadan, why Egyptians might be unable to enjoy the festivities at home, and what the protesters think, over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-ramadan-holiday-egypt-anxiety-20130710,0,5115090.story\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-ramadan-holiday-egypt-anxiety-20130710,0,5115090.story\">LA Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests over the coup\/revolution in Egypt continue, even as Ramadan \u2013 a lunar month where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk \u2013 begins. Edmund Sanders looked at how this might affect the protests: The Egyptian military is hoping that protesters will find it hard to demonstrate as their energy wanes during the day. However many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/071013_2311_HowWillRama1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9249"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9249\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}