Muslim scholars campaign for UK moon sightings to determine Eid

RELIGIOUS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – Imams and scholars from Blackburn have launched a campaign urging people to follow local moonsighting criteria when deciding when to celebrate Eid.

It follows confusion at the start and end of Ramadan, when communities in the UK celebrate on two different days, some following local sightings and the others following sightings made in Saudia Arabia.

Annual disagreements have even split families and neighbours.

Asian Image explains that until 1984, Muslims in the UK  predominantly followed sightings in the UK or Morocco, the nearest Islamic country, but sightings from Saudi Arabia sometimes contradicted that information.