{"id":8178,"date":"2025-03-03T11:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T11:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8178"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:56:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T11:56:54","slug":"ramadan-commerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/03\/03\/ramadan-commerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nadeine Asbali discusses the commercial side of Ramadan here. I encountered it myself yesterday &#8211; in the gardening aisle of B&amp;Q, the speaker system wished me Ramadan Mubarak, and then played a Three Degrees\u2018 record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Over the past few years<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>perhaps thanks to social media, Ramadan has become increasingly commercialised as major companies wake up to how lucrative the so-called Muslim pound is \u2013 estimated to be worth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mcb.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/The-Muslim-Pound-FINAL-3.pdf\">more than \u00a320.5bn<\/a>. But this year things feel more unabashedly consumerist than ever.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3ljdosgp7ck2k\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreid6t6h2332vyku5ggcnzrdn4xoe3rec54jtofoq2cf5wodijg244u\"><p lang=\"en\">\u201cThere is a difference between tick-box diversity on the shelf and genuine diversity and inclusion in a country.\u201d  Nice piece from Nadeine Asbali on Ramadan and commercialisation @theguardian.com<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3ljdosgp7ck2k?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3ljdosgp7ck2k?ref_src=embed\">1 March 2025 at 19:47<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadeine Asbali discusses the commercial side of Ramadan here. I encountered it myself yesterday &#8211; in the gardening aisle of B&amp;Q, the speaker system wished me Ramadan Mubarak, and then played a Three Degrees\u2018 record. &#8220;Over the past few years,\u00a0perhaps thanks to social media, Ramadan has become increasingly commercialised as major companies wake up to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,446,217],"tags":[271,786,222],"class_list":["post-8178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-muslims","category-business","category-ramadan","tag-british-muslims","tag-commerce","tag-ramadan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8179,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions\/8179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}