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London Mayor Recommends Ramadan Fast for All
Israel National News ^ | 9/5/09 | David Lev

Posted on 09/05/2009 11:21:25 PM PDT by Nachum

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has recommended that non-Muslims take the opportunity of the month of Ramadan to fast, along with their Muslim neighbors, in order to promote "understanding between cultures."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; london; mayor; ramadan; recommends; ukmuslims
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Words sort of fail me here.
1 posted on 09/05/2009 11:21:26 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I recommend all Muslims enjoy a nice, hearty BLT.


2 posted on 09/05/2009 11:23:21 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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To: Nachum

Yeah, sure, they can do that when the Islamofascists go Christmas caroling and fast for Lent.


3 posted on 09/05/2009 11:23:59 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (So many Communists, so little time.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Mmmm...bacon.

Damn you.

I’m hungry now.


4 posted on 09/05/2009 11:25:12 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (So many Communists, so little time.)
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To: Nachum
It's almost 2:30am and being that it's the weekend, I do believe I can find a drive thru that's still open.
5 posted on 09/05/2009 11:25:20 PM PDT by Rickcbw
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To: stanz; RaceBannon; Cacique
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has recommended that non-Muslims take the opportunity of the month of Ramadan to fast, along with their Muslim neighbors, in order to promote "understanding between cultures."

Unreal.

6 posted on 09/05/2009 11:25:54 PM PDT by nutmeg (Obamunism is destroying America)
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To: Nachum

ROTFL!!! Wacky white guys really crack me up.


7 posted on 09/05/2009 11:26:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare! When "natural causes" just isn't good enough!)
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To: Nachum

This year, Yom Kippur begins three weeks from now, the evening of Sunday, September 27.

I wonder if we’ll hear anything from him then...


8 posted on 09/05/2009 11:26:08 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Nachum

yup, I will sit down with them right after they have a roast pork dinner with me :-).


9 posted on 09/05/2009 11:27:08 PM PDT by MA~Bear
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To: Nachum

I have two words for him..
and they ain’t “Happy birthday”
as we say here in Maine.


10 posted on 09/05/2009 11:27:48 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: Nachum

‘common ground’ seems to be a commie talking point. I feel I went to sleep and woke up to a different world with a huge disconnect to it.


11 posted on 09/05/2009 11:28:18 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Rickcbw
It's almost 2:30am and being that it's the weekend, I do believe I can find a drive thru that's still open.

Daytime meals are the forbidden ones.

Actually, the song "two beers a away, from a beautiful day" comes to mind here.

12 posted on 09/05/2009 11:28:32 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

What planet am I on? And how do I get back to earth?


13 posted on 09/05/2009 11:32:36 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Nachum
Only when something else is sold in Mecca ....


14 posted on 09/05/2009 11:33:29 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: Nachum

Daytime meals are the forbidden ones.

Actually, the song “two beers a away, from a beautiful day” comes to mind here

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Yeah, that song sounds good to me and.....that means I’ll have to hit the drive thru again in the afternoon, lol.


15 posted on 09/05/2009 11:34:01 PM PDT by Rickcbw
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To: Nachum

et tu Boris?

That Mayor of London job must have a dhimmi contagion. First Red Ken and now Boris.


16 posted on 09/05/2009 11:34:13 PM PDT by dervish (I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
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To: Nachum

BJ should observe the month of Ramadan by keeping his stupid mouth shut.


17 posted on 09/05/2009 11:35:14 PM PDT by Catmom
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To: Nachum

If you peruse past FR archives, this was the guy FReepers were championing over here.

Either Boris said what he did, sarcastically, or he too has become a dhimmi.

I’m hoping on the former.


18 posted on 09/05/2009 11:38:53 PM PDT by OldSpice
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To: kabumpo
What planet am I on? And how do I get back to earth?

I keep asking myself similar things

19 posted on 09/05/2009 11:39:16 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: kabumpo
What planet am I on? And how do I get back to earth?

Well, it's the same dirt. Check it out.

20 posted on 09/05/2009 11:42:00 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Nachum

...notoriously gaffe-prone, will need intensive media management...

21 posted on 09/05/2009 11:48:19 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Nachum

Is this satire?


22 posted on 09/05/2009 11:49:19 PM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; rabscuttle385; Nachum

“I recommend all Muslims enjoy a nice, hearty BLT.”

And to not diet during ramadan “in order to promote understanding with our culture”!!


23 posted on 09/05/2009 11:50:06 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Nachum

Suddenly I have an urge for a big fat bacon rapped steak for lunch every day this month...

To follow the ham and eggs I’ll have for breakfast...

and of course some juicy pork chops for supper each afternoon...


24 posted on 09/05/2009 11:50:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Nachum

Gee I’m celebrating Ramadan by enjoying lots of American raised pork. Pork loins are very inexpensive these days and are delicious smoked on your grill or cooked in a slow cooker with a couple of apples, a Vidalia onion and 2T each of apple jelly and apple cider vinegar.


25 posted on 09/05/2009 11:51:20 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Nachum; nutmeg

“Words sort of fail me here.”

I think Britain should be put on a suicide watch.


26 posted on 09/05/2009 11:51:35 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Tennessee Nana
and of course some juicy pork chops for supper each afternoon...

Marinated in Jack, right? :P

27 posted on 09/05/2009 11:52:51 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (So many Communists, so little time.)
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To: Nachum

Sure, just as soon as the muslims sing Christmas carols and celebrate the Risen Christ at Easter. Otherwise, they can go pound sand.


28 posted on 09/05/2009 11:55:13 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Nachum; shibumi
The limp wristed Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has recommended a participation in the fast of Ramadan to bring “understanding” between Muslims and non-Muslims.

I recommend to you Boris, that if a true understanding of Islam is to be gained, try watching over, and over again, the events that occurred in OUR great nation on 11, September, 2001.

Do you really want to get touchy feely with these animals, or are you just hoping that they will kill you last.
Either way, you're dead. BTW...Tell them that you'll participate in the fast if they'll join you in a good ol' saugage and biscuit after it's over.

29 posted on 09/05/2009 11:57:10 PM PDT by Markos33 (TeddyCare was revealed to the world one cold night on the Chappaquiddick. R.I.P. Mary Jo Kopechne.)
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To: Nachum

I recommend a diet of ham, spam and bacon for Ramalamadindong to promote cultural awareness.


30 posted on 09/06/2009 12:00:36 AM PDT by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Reqiescat in Pace)
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To: Nachum
Boris Johnson is a turd monkey, and I felt that way before I read this. Some of his greatest blunders include: --defending and endorsing further government funding of Mickey Mouse degrees in the UK (i.e. leisure studies, sky-diving science, Harry Potterology). --Endorsed Obama, having this to say about him: "There are all sorts of reasons for hoping that Barack Hussein Obama will be the next president of the United States. He seems highly intelligent. He has an air of courtesy and sincerity. Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb....But then again, he is patently not the Marxist subversive loony Lefty that some of his detractors allege. I revere Melanie Phillips, and I have carefully studied her blog entries about Obama and the vote-stealers, or Obama and his association with a quondam terrorist called Ayers. In the end I gave up, goggle-eyed and exhausted, having trolled the wilds of the Neocon internet without finding anything remotely approaching a smoking gun. Obama's terrorist chum is now a professor, and his last act of terrorism took place when the candidate was eight, and it is not really clear that he and Obama are chums at all....Obama deserves to win because he seems talented, compassionate, and because he offers the hope of rejuvenating the greatest country on earth in the eyes of the rest of us. All those are sufficient reasons for desiring his victory." --He cheats on his wife That said, I don't think this comment makes Johnson a terrorist sympathizer, I think he meant exactly what he said, it was about understanding other cultures. I still think it was inappropriate to suggest taking up a religious practice. Boris Johnson said this after the London bombings: "...It will take a huge effort of courage and skill to win round the many thousands of British Muslims who are in a similar state of alienation, and to make them see that their faith must be compatible with British values and with loyalty to Britain. That means disposing of the first taboo, and accepting that the problem is Islam. Islam is the problem. To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture — to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques — it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. [...] The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension [of Theo Van Gogh's killer] is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s mediaeval ass?"
31 posted on 09/06/2009 12:19:06 AM PDT by LifeComesFirst (Until the unborn are free, nobody is free.)
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To: LifeComesFirst

Whoa, word wrap. Sorry everybody.


32 posted on 09/06/2009 12:19:36 AM PDT by LifeComesFirst (Until the unborn are free, nobody is free.)
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To: Nachum

Words sort of fail me here.

***

He has the “Can’t we all just get along” syndrome ...


33 posted on 09/06/2009 12:24:01 AM PDT by Lmo56
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To: Nachum
That's right. Cultural understanding. Sit down, have a beer and munch on some ribs.


34 posted on 09/06/2009 12:25:58 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrat - The new Party of National Socialism. Pelosi and Kosmas - founding members.)
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To: Nachum

Sure and we can invite Muslims to Christmas and Easter and share a ham sandwich with them.

and the sun will shine and world peace will break out.


35 posted on 09/06/2009 12:32:22 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Lonely Bull
This year, Yom Kippur begins three weeks from now, the evening of Sunday, September 27. I wonder if we’ll hear anything from him then...

Don't hold your breath

36 posted on 09/06/2009 12:33:27 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Dallas59

slice those dogs open and insert cheese... then drop into a vat of hot grease, then serve on a bun...

A Texas Tommy


37 posted on 09/06/2009 12:34:44 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; rabscuttle385
Perfect for supper after a hard day of Ramadan fasting -


38 posted on 09/06/2009 12:35:12 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: Nachum
Fury as mayor claims UK could learn from Taliban

Published Date: 03 September 2009
By David Kessen
DONCASTER war hero Ben Parkinson's family today slated claims by mayor of Doncaster Peter Davies that the UK could learn lessons from the Taliban.

Ben said he was upset by the claims, while his mum Diane Dernie said it was almost too painful to comment on his suggestion.

Mr Davies contrasted the Taliban's "decent" family affairs with "mayhem" he claims exists in British society in an interview in a national newspaper.

39 posted on 09/06/2009 12:36:39 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Kennedy complained at 2:55 am to the hotel owner that he had been awoken by a noisy party.)
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To: LifeComesFirst; Salamander

Let me guess.

Your favorite writers are Kurt Vonnegut and James Joyce - Right?


40 posted on 09/06/2009 12:38:52 AM PDT by shibumi (" ..... then we will fight in the shade.")
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To: Nachum
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has recommended that non-Muslims take the opportunity of the month of Ramadan to fast, along with their Muslim neighbors, in order to promote "understanding between cultures."

Moron doesn't quite cover it does it?


41 posted on 09/06/2009 12:42:22 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Yonder stands your orphan with his gun)
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To: aquila48

“I think Britain should be put on a suicide watch.”

Too Late!


42 posted on 09/06/2009 12:42:26 AM PDT by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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To: Nachum

If Islam ever becomes the dominant religion in the world, then everything we have accomplished in the past 400 years will have been for nothing; the world will collapse in on itself, and we will be thrust into another dark age.


43 posted on 09/06/2009 12:50:14 AM PDT by ClaudiusI
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To: Nachum

And I thought Ken Livingstone was a lousy mayor...


44 posted on 09/06/2009 12:59:10 AM PDT by karnage (worn arguments and old attitudes)
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To: Nachum

Time for a new mayor. I have a front row seat to the suicide of western culture in real time. I can’t stand watching the death of the west by its own hand. Can anyone wonder about the fall of Rome anymore when we are seeing it repeated first hand.


45 posted on 09/06/2009 1:12:12 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 55... 54... 53...)
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To: Nachum

Yikes. Another Red Ken...


46 posted on 09/06/2009 1:13:48 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Nachum

I have a bit of sweat that forms around my taint for moosies.


47 posted on 09/06/2009 1:39:52 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (google; operation garden spot and REX84)
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To: shibumi

Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes “ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2161801/posts


48 posted on 09/06/2009 2:09:30 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Nachum

Johnson is a great reminder that while we have goofy pols over here, other countries have them too. Nice to know other countries have their share of dolts in public office and not just us. Kind of like standing next to gargantua so people don’t notice your own huge fat quotient.


49 posted on 09/06/2009 2:16:13 AM PDT by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Nachum

As for me and mine, we shall serve the LORD.

And NO, the entity named allah is NOT the LORD.

Also as for me and mine, we had bacon for breakfast on the first day of Ramadan. On purpose.


50 posted on 09/06/2009 3:39:17 AM PDT by piytar (Bussing in SEIU brownshirts to intimidate regular Americans is REAL FASCISM! NRA Lifetime Member)
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