Last year, Muslim organizations in the Netherlands pleaded to no longer use the name Eid al-Fitr. According to the chairman of the Contact Body for Muslims and Government (CMO), a partnership of more than 380 mosques and ten Islamic organisations, the term does not cover the meaning of the religious festival. Sugar or sugary snacks have nothing to do with the essence of the party, which he says is about self-evaluation. He compared it to Easter, which you don’t call an egg festival.
Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan with Eid-al-Fitr: ‘We mainly use sugar festival for children’
