Not in a western country. On the contrary, they should pretend to eat so as not to offend me.
When I was working in Saudi, out of consideration for our relatively few muslim employees (including relatively few muslims with the client) we moved our break area down to another floor down a hall through an unmarked door. If you wanted to smoke or sip coffee thats where you went during that month, instead of sipping coffee at your desk or having a smoke at your desk.
As a result the breaks tended to be a little longer, we’d sit and talk and watch the world out the upper floor windows.
But in a western country, no. I’d never purposely offend a muslim colleague but I’m not going to remake my life just to please him. He knows he’s in a western country. He chose to be here, and unless he’s a jerk, he’s already accepted that. If he’s a jerk, I don’t care what he thinks anyway.
“On the contrary, they should pretend to eat so as not to offend me.”
Lol!