Posted on 04/08/2021 4:06:44 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (WCCO) — The Muslim community is racing to vaccinate as many people as possible before Ramadan begins next week, which will draw people to worship in-person together.
On Thursday, 200 people received their shots at Masjid Al Tawba in Eden Prairie. Hundreds more got vaccinated at other mosques and will continue to do so through Monday. Ramadan begins early Tuesday.
“People tend to fill the masjid. The masjid tends to host a lot activities and a lot of things that are important for the community,” said Imam Ahmed Abou. “So there’s a little bit of a time crunch for us to get as many Muslims as possible vaccinated to contribute to beating the curve.”
Imam Asad Zaman, executive director of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, petitioned the Minnesota Department of Health and secured 7,600 doses of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine to speed up the immunization process across 18 mosques in St. Cloud, Rochester and the Twin Cities metro area.
Pfizer and Moderna require two shots 21 or 28 days apart, which could mean getting second doses in the middle of the holy month of the Islamic calendar when Muslims observe fasting.
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Waiting to hear that the defunded police will rush in with force of arms to bust them for not masking or social distancing.
I’ll be waiting until the camels come home, I reckon.
put bacon grease in the needle
Close the mosque, offer them the free vaccine with a free one-way ticket out of the US to return to their respective homeland.
WGAS?! Is it Rama-lama-ding-dong time again already? Rough when the daylight hours are so long up in Minnesota.
Christmas and Easter were all messed up. Why should Ramadan get special treatment? *rolls eyes*
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