البرازيل: المسلمون يتغلبون على الظروف المحيطة بالتعاون على ممارسة الشعائر

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

لا تزال الأقلية المسلمة في "البرازيل" - التي تشكل نحو 35 ألف و167 مسلمًا بنسبة 0.02 % من بين 199 مليون برازيلي - تعاني من الأجواء غير الإسلامية المحيطة؛ حيث يعرب كثير من المسلمين عن صعوبة الصيام وممارسة الشعائر في بلاد غالبيتها من النصارى.

ويشكو المسلمون من قلة المساجد والأجواء الإسلامية، وخاصةً المهاجرين من البلاد الإسلامية نتيجة الصراعات الحالية، وذلك إضافة إلى صعوبة الجو وحرارته.

ويحاول المسلمون التغلب على هذه المصاعب بالتجمع بالمركز الإسلامي لتناول الإفطار الجماعي وممارسة الشعائر، وبالرغم من قلة المسلمين بـ"البرازيل"، فإن أعدادهم ازدادت بنسبة 29% بين عامي 2000 و2010؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Brazil's growing Muslim population adapt for Ramadan

Although still proportionally small – 35,167, or approximately 0.02 percent of the 199 million-strong population – Brazil’s Muslim community is growing, swelling 29 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to census figures.

In Brasilia, many Muslims gather for prayer at the Islamic Center of Brasilia, a tranquil walled mosque in the city's north. There to pray and break his fast with friends after sundown was Yassin Adnane, a translator for the Iraqi embassy. Originally from the north of Morocco, Adnane estimated that there were between 3,000 and 5,000 Muslims in Brasilia.

“There are aspects of Brazil that make fasting here more difficult,” he said, “such as the dryness of the climate, the way women dress, the smell of coffee and cigarettes on the street – for me, giving up coffee is the most difficult thing.”

“But in Iraq or Kuwait, it could be 53 or 54 degrees Celsius at this time of year,” Adnane said. “We eat little salt at night, to diminish our thirst the next day, and no blue fish, like tuna, which also encourages thirst.”

Adnane added that as he had married a non-Muslim Brazilian woman, he often spent a lot of time at the mosque during the month of Ramadan.

“The foods we eat at night here at the mosque very calorific; honey, lots of nuts, yogurt,” he said. "But at home I have a Brazilian wife, who is half Christian and half Buddhist, so we don’t eat traditional foods of Ramadan there.”

As one of the five pillars of Islam, Ramadan is mandatory for Muslims. However exemptions can be made for pregnant women, or people who are sick, travelling, or elderly.