Donny Roelvink no longer eats pork now that he is Muslim, but he doesn’t miss it at all. In any case, it is a rancid animal to eat, says the 28-year-old Dutch celebrity. “It is an unclean animal.”
We know Donny Roelvink from his muscles, his snow-white teeth and his endless presence on Instagram, but nowadays he also emphatically profiles himself as a Muslim. Dries Roelvink’s son got a lot of mud all over him last week because of his pilgrimage to Mecca. A retarded ignoramus, critics cried.
Half past four
Donny himself takes his faith incredibly seriously. For example, he gets up at half past four in the morning for morning prayers. “Yes, although the times change with the seasons, but sometimes it is indeed around half past three. There are five fixed prayer moments a day. That is part of it,” he says in the Party.
How does he combine the current Ramadan with his training? “Ramadan is more than not eating. It is awareness, it is something mental. People focus on the physical, it indeed also cleanses your body. It has also been scientifically proven that fasting is good.”
Continuous eating
Ramadan is actually something very natural, Donny explains. “We’re not actually designed to eat all day long like we do now. In the past, you would go hunting and eat once or twice a day. Now we eat all the time.”
He also no longer drinks alcohol. “I only did alcohol in my teens. I had a bad time. I was not a nice person when I was drunk and I didn’t remember anything the next day. That stopped quickly.”
Pork
And pork? Muslim Donny doesn’t eat that anymore either. “I have never missed pork. A pig is an unclean animal that eats its own shit and does not sweat, so all waste remains in the animal. That is why we get pimples when we eat pork.”
He concludes: “I already didn’t eat pig, so that was no problem.”