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To: chs68

Ramadan is a time of penance and fasting, like the Christian Lent. I've never wished anyone a "Happy Lent."


143 posted on 11/10/2004 10:13:27 AM PST by carrier-aviator
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To: carrier-aviator
"Ramadan is a time of penance and fasting, like the Christian Lent. I've never wished anyone a "Happy Lent.""

Nor, to the best of my knowledge, have I.

The question I was asked, though, was how I might respond if a Muslim person were to wish me "Happy Ramadan".

I think I captured the essence of how I would respond in my post.

What I most assuredly would NOT do is take offense simply because a person of another faith expressed to me a hope that I might be happy during the month of Ramadan (and I think I am correct when I say that there is, in the Islamic calendar, a month called "Ramadan", during which there is fasting and repentance. It is thus not exactly the same thing as Lent. As far as I know, there is no month of "Lent" in any commonly-used calendar.)

148 posted on 11/10/2004 10:39:08 AM PST by chs68
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