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The BBC’s Ramadan blindspot

12 March 2025

6:30 PM

12 March 2025

6:30 PM

The month of Ramadan is well under way and the BBC is encouraging all its employees to demonstrate empathy and support for their fasting colleagues.

New advice has been issued. Regular staff have been urged to recognise that while ‘Ramadan is spiritually significant’ it can also be ‘physically challenging’ and Muslim colleagues ‘may seem quieter or different during Ramadan’ but this ‘should not be taken personally’.

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