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There'll be no more skirlie in Scotland this summer, at least not during business hours.(The Week)(National Health Service rules on eating at Ramadan)(Brief article)

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There'll be no more skirlie in Scotland this summer, at least not during business hours. The National Health Service in Glasgow and Lothian has suspended the act of eating during the holy month of Ramadan. Doctors and health workers are not to lunch at their desks, where they may run the risk of insulting--tempting?--their fasting Muslim colleagues. (For who can resist the scent of minced and boiled sheep offal?) A more caring government might have mandated that the Scots eat haggis all hours of the day, which could only make fasting easier. Now, no order was given ...

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