AIBU to think Katie Hopkins is even more of a tw--a--it...

[GigiB]

.. she really is. Check out this headline:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3627352/KATIE-HOPKINS-Welcome-Midsummer-madness-Ramadan.html

who wants to help me plot how to get her put in a box and posted to the north pole with no ski's?

She doesn't care that her grasping for column inches actually affects people's lives.

Even if she's not actually making racist remarks, She's perpetuating stereotypes that affect normal people..it's so disheartening.

I don't expect any special treatment when I'm fasting. It's my choice and affects no one but me. And that's in s positive way.

What a horrible cow.

Well according to my Muslim friends, very few of them do actually starve thro Ramadan. They eat after dark, maybe get up in the night and eat, and get up very early in the morning to eat.

Muslims who fast have been fasting for years and years! Your body starts preparing naturally and feeling less hungry as Ramadan approaches. No one is crawling on the floor barely able to speak or think like Kh is claiming. This woman must have a really sad life.

Please ignore her then she will go away.

It really isn't that difficult once you get used to it. Humans are quite strong. And if you can't do it, you don't have to anyway.

Fasting is actually very good for you physically, obviously without binging at night on crap.

And spiritually...it's impossible not to think of people who are forced to live as though they are fasting, through poverty etc. It does remind you how lucky you are to sit down to a nice meal every night.

The thirst is hard. Hunger is barely noticeable. You don't feel weak with hunger. Hunger is easy to ignore, very easy, whereas thirst is a real biological imperative.

Nrft
but ive kept a few of these 20hour fasts over the past 2 weeks. While looking after 3 dc inc 1 disabled child with lots of needs and all the rest of normal day to day stuff (driving, cleaning cooking etc) and honestly its not that bad.

I probably wont keep first few days as ive got a uti (I have known kidney problems and I drink 3l of water in 4hrs lol when fasting)
We are not asking for anything to be done for us. Just accept we do it. Thank you

I have to admit the worst time of it all is the last hour lol

Your body cannot prepare for episodes almost a year apart, what utter twaddle.

No food is not too hard, I do it and I'm fine.

No water or tea though, that's what's worse.
Dehydration in the summer is a killer.

She is an ass, can't stand the women, but I do agree with some of her points. I would not want to be treated by a medical professional who had not drunk anything for 12+ hours, especially with how hot it's been the past few days. For all those saying oh they will break their fast if they need to, will they?? At what point would someone decide they can't function well enough to do their job and willingly break their fast?

I think there is definitely a problem with Islam not being compatible with modern British living, if you do a job that is medical or you drive or operate machinery you shouldn't be at work during Ramadan Imo. I don't think People should be accused of rasism for that viewpoint either as its nothing to do with rasism, it's not agreeing with people starving themselves of food and most importantly water for entire days during the hottest months of the year, it's not healthy and not safe. They may be used to it but it doesn't make it right or any more safe.

How does your body"prepare naturally" for extreme fasting for a month?
What absolute rubbish.
I have four Muslims on my team and for the next month I cannot give them difficult work to do in the afternoons, they might as well take the early bus home.
You cannot safely allow people to operate machinery if you know that they are medically not fit.
I agree with her.

One of the points of the fast is that they're not given any special treatment, and don't expect or ask for it, as its to be carried out during normal circumstances. The Muslims at my work and the ones I teach continue as normal - I tend to forget it's Ramadan, so little fuss is made.

The view is valid, not phobic, too easy to claim that it is. People disagree with Katie Hopkins or anyone else with these views claim they are phobic to devalue and discredit their opinions, they are not phobic.

And you dont have to fast during ramdan. Those who can't can feed a poot person for the month or make up the fasts when it's not too hot.
And fasting hasnt always been during the hottest month of the year 😞 I remember fasting being in September once. The dates change each year.

*poor. Damn fat fingers and typos on phone. Obv im not fasting enough lol

So you're telling me how my body works?
I naturally start feeling less hungry and going hours without eating/ drinking around ramadan every year.

No one has ever had to send me home early from work during Ramadan or my husband. Why the hell would you do that to your employees? How utterly patronising and rude. Have you even asked them if they are medically fit or tested them? Horrible person.

Many Muslims also give up using social media for a month.

I'd find that way harder than not eating/drinking during daylight hours

Presumably those fasting don't have a lunch break so actually taking five minutes every hour instead of an hour at lunchtime - or leaving early - isn't actually working fewer hours?

But they have to stop to pray Knackered