>> 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.
What percentage, would you guess, of the indigenous population, worship, not just by going to a carol service on Christmas Eve, but through the year?
If the British population were told at 21.30 on the 24th December that they couldn't go to church, they would laugh and say "well, we weren't going anyway!"
How many actually practice the faith?
2%? 5%?
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