The Europe News website reports today (August 1, 2012) that tensions between French authorities and the country's Islamic community heated up yesterday, after it emerged that four summer camp instructors had been fired for fasting during Ramadan.
The four had been employed temporarily by the town of Genevilliers in the Paris suburbs to help run a summer holiday sports camp in southwestern France.
They were dismissed on July 20 -- the first day of Islamic observance of Ramadan -- after an inspector visited the camp and told them they were endangering children's safety by not eating or drinking between dawn and dusk.
Although they were fully paid for the week they had remaining on their short-term contracts, the instructors plan to contest their dismissal in the courts as "an attack on religious freedom."
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