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Cologne (dpa) - Islamic associations have called on Muslims to be particularly restrained in Ramadan in view of the threat of exit restrictions in Germany.
With a view to the common breaking of the fast every evening - Iftar - after sunset, the Central Council of Muslims (ZMD) warned in a circular to the communities on Friday to refrain.
The amended Federal Infection Protection Act leaves certain leeway at meetings for religious practice, wrote the ZMD chairman Aiman Mazyek.
The communities should, however, as far as possible not make use of exemptions and should refrain from night and morning prayers in the mosque.
The federal government's new Corona emergency brake also applies to private gatherings: With a weekly incidence of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, members of a household are only allowed to invite one other person, including children, to the Iftar, emphasized the ZMD. The Ditib, the largest Islamic organization in Germany, had already made it clear a week ago that no evening iftar could take place in mosques during the third corona wave. In addition, if the incidence values are high, there are no church services in the mosques.
A Ditib spokeswoman pointed out on Friday that the central mosque in Cologne had been affected by a nightly exit restriction for a week.
The cathedral city imposed this on April 16 for 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
Night or morning prayers are not possible there.
The month of fasting began this year on April 13th.
Believers do not eat or drink from dawn to sundown.
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The ZMD explicitly promoted corona vaccinations.
At Ditib it was said that a vaccination against corona does not invalidate the fast.
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