>> News from the frontline in lockdown Bradford.
>> A childhood friend has a business in a certain BD postcode. This afternoon the police
>> closed Cemetery Rd as the mosques emptied. Hundreds of worshippers exiting shoulder to shoulder, shaking
>> hands, climbing into cars, even the boot areas. A few uniformed police stood and watched.
>> Social distancing my donkey.
The announcements here came just 90 minutes before Eid al Adha began; a festival one of my Muslim former colleagues describes as the Islamic Christmas. I wonder how the indigenous population would have reacted if a similar announcement were made at 21:30 on Christmas Eve when all the food and pressies were bought and people were readying themselves for midnight mass.
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