Ramadhan is the month of tolerance (?)

Marhabban ya Ramadhan!! This sentence is all around me these days. yes, it is the fasting month, when millions of Moslems around the world do the same thing, do not eat and drink at noon and try to behave well, to keep their emotion and anger, and so on and so on. Short, Moslem people try to be a better person in this month. As always, as it is always said and heard everywhere. Well I agree with that statement that people are having their best attempts to be a better person, and actually it is good though for people urging for their improvement, especially in terms of their faith. However, there is something bothering while this phase is happening. In some places in Indonesia, there are some raids happened on some restaurants. The government legally accommodates the raids in order, they said, to make the tolerance atmosphere for the Moslem who are fasting every day in this month. Unfortunately, sometimes that “cleaning time” is performed in a state of forced. The restaurants owner don’t have any choice except ‘closing’ his place in the noon. For example, there is a state regulation of working hours for restaurant in fasting month in Gorontalo. It is said in Gatra.com in July 10 2013 that the Gorontalo govt. legally obliged the restaurant owners to close their place around 5 am—5.30 pm, otherwise the pamong praja would forcedly close them though.

http://www.arrahmah.com, the Ramadhan forced raid in Pamekasan, Madura

As a Moslem, I’m not in the same opinion with the govt. I don’t know, in my perspective it is so not necessary. I mean, it is just pestering the other non Moslems people who aren’t fasting and need food and drinks while doing their activities. it is not fair. If it is really about “tolerance” thingies, why should be it carried on forcedly? I mean, you talk about tolerance toward people who are fasting, but you are not tolerance to the people who are not fasting and people who are trying to earn money for living. It is useless and pointless. If you do so, there is no point of tolerance anyway. And then, aren’t the raid phenomena depicting the Moslems as the spoiled ones? I mean, why do the fasting people need to be “tolerated” while fasting? It is just like you are a baby boy who really wants to eat candy and everybody around you has to buy the candies and eat it together with you so you can be happy and not irritated. Im sorry if I cant give the better analogy—but, it is so much self-centred! Well yeah, go fasting then, but don’t force other people to do the same thing you do. You have your own responsibility and they don’t have any business to deal with it. I don’t know when lots of restaurant and food courts are forcedly closed during the noon on the fasting month, it seems like the Moslems people are crying for help to other people to “understand” them. It is like they will fail on their fasting when they see a lot of foods and drinks showed and displayed on the restaurant. In fact, it is not like that. As for my self, frankly and fortunately, I still can manage my desire not to tempted by the displayed food or by my friends who are eating and drinking in front of me while im fasting. And I think, most of Moslem can do so. We are not that weak. Therefore, what the govt do on behalf of “toleracing” is not necessary. It is just make the moslem’s image as the spoiled and beginner-faith people. Moreover, it is disturbing other people activities, esp. earning money.