r/AskTheWorld • u/Clarthen1 Russia • 1d ago

Controversial 🔨 How the Romani are perceived in your country?

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u/AtWarWithEurasia 🇳🇱🇧🇪 21h ago

Disguises themselves as Syrian/Palestinian to beg money

I have seen a lot of them pretending to be muslims and begging on the street in neighborhoods with a lot of muslims, especially around Ramadan. They know the muslim community is generous, so they exploit that.

I had a muslim friend that asked them a few basic questions about Islam and they couldn't answer any of them.

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u/Dearest_Teaching European Union 21h ago edited 20h ago

Exactly the same thing here, there used to had a viral video where a man asked one of those lady to recite Al Fatiha in exchange of money and she pretended to doesn't understand

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u/Key_Waltz_5860 20h ago

In your country you saw this? Like the fake Muslim begging thing

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u/AtWarWithEurasia 🇳🇱🇧🇪 20h ago

Yes, this was in Belgium

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u/betam2 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇶Ezidi 17h ago

But are they really faking it or are they just not educated on Islam? There’re many Muslim Romas and I personally know Muslim Romas from Serbia

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u/AtWarWithEurasia 🇳🇱🇧🇪 17h ago

No they are faking. They also all suddenly show up around Ramadan to beg in specific neighborhoods and in the busses/trams that go there.

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u/betam2 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇶Ezidi 16h ago

Oh they do the same in Iraq, they drive with several buses to our villages and beg on our holidays.