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Islamic leaders are using social media, virtual town halls and face-to-face discussions to spread the word that it’s acceptable to be vaccinated for the coronavirus during daily fasting that happens during Ramazan.
The vaccine discussion centres on whether an inoculation amounts to the prohibited act of ingesting something while fasting.
It doesn’t, said Mohamud Mohamed, imam of the Maine Muslim Community Centre, who is working to assure Muslims at his Portland mosque that getting the vaccine is perfectly fine, but finds that some people are clinging to misperceptions.
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