UK health sec thanks Muslims for lockdown ‘sacrifice’ on St George’s Day

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock thanked Muslims for their Ramadan “sacrifice” on St George’s Day, but made no mention of the English national day itself.

Hancock, who as Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Social Care has arguably played the leading role for the British government in Boris Johnson’s absence — although the Prime Minister’s official substitute is Dominic Raab — neglected to mark St George’s Day in any way, or to offer a message to English citizens prevented from celebrating it properly by the lockdown regulations.

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[ishtat]

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Hancock is smarter than you think. St George is an important prophet in Islam and seen as an important figure in the early non-Pauline Jewish reform movement. George was revered by a number of the Jerusalem Jesus movements (under Jesus' brother James) and was known to Mohamed through his knowledge of the Ebionite Christians in NW Arabia.

The Brits acknowledge St George's day but don't exactly celebrate it. Hancock was therefore touching on a common point between England and its Moslem citizens.

 

[ChristopherWallace]

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[DeYaKen]

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Didn't take much guessing to know where this rubbish came from. You've got to laugh at the idea of comparing Ramadan to St Georges day. Ramadan is a major religious event which is as important to Muslims as Christmas is to Christians. St Georges day on the other hand is the celebration of a mythical hero that the Vatican no longer recognises. It is so important to the Brits that most of them don't know what day it is. More English people know the date of St Patricks's day than even know who St George was supposed to be.