SocraticGadfly: Ramadan
Showing posts with label Ramadan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ramadan. Show all posts

September 20, 2008

Ramadan and ciggies

Although an occasional Muslim cleric disagrees, cigarettes are generally considered haram and therefore verboten for Ramadan!

Jokes about doubly-surly NYC cabbies aside, be kind to any Muslim friends who smoke.

August 25, 2007

A very unlucky non-Friday the 13th looming?

I wouldn’t want to be in the West Bank or Gaza Sept. 13. Why?

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, starts the evening of Sept. 12, according to the modern Western/Christian Gregorian calendar, and runs through the daytime hours of Sept. 13.

Ramadan, the Muslim month of daytime fasting, starts Sept. 13.

Can you say “potential for explosiveness”?