Posted on 08/08/2010 3:24:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
MANKATO, Minn. — Husain Abdullah is approaching his most challenging month of the football season.
That's when the Minnesota Vikings backup safety observes Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting and prayer. As a practicing Muslim, Abdullah will not eat or drink at all during daylight hours for the 30-day period that begins Wednesday.
Even while sprinting in the heat and humidity during drills, sometimes in full pads, Abdullah is adamant about his faith. He will not allow himself so much as a cup of water until the sun sets and before it rises.
"I'm putting nothing before God, nothing before my religion," Abdullah said. "This is something I choose to do, not something I have to do. So I'm always going to fast."
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“Death to the infidels in Green Bay!”
Ok, Abdullah. Just don’t try anything extreme, like putting scripture citations on your face, like that one Christian guy did. /s
he'll be the first to sue if he collapses..
and I love how these Muzzies believe in their god when it suits them....Muslems are also supposed to be rightous, not go to strip clubs or engage in porno, etc....
Why does Ramadamadingdong happen earlier and earlier EVERY year? It is so annoying...
Does it bother you that Easter moves around?
Puhleeze. It’s just during the day, and then they have a bash in the evening. There’s nothing heroic about that.
No. Easter doesn’t go from December to September. In 1999, Ramadan started in December that year ‘till January the next. Since then, it’s crept back several months. Easter doesn’t do that...
Good way to FREAKIN’ DIE!
Man looks on the outward appearance but God looks on the heart. Islam is all external show.
Who cares...he has the right to do this if his team knew up front and agreed. Remember how Sandy Koufax, a Jew, wouldn’t pitch the World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur? This is still America and as long as he doesn’t cut anyone’s head off, he has a right to his religious practice.
I think Muslims use a different calendar. So do Jews and various other religious groups.
The Islamic calendar is a 12 month lunar calendar of 354 or 355 days. So it moves when compared to a Gregorian calendar ten or eleven days a year.
The current Year of the Hijra is 1431. It began on December 18th, 2009 and will end on December 6th, 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar
Don’t worry, he’ll get his required fluids. He will be making frequent trips to the bathroom where he’ll wash his face because of the heat and slurp as much water as he wants. I have witnessed that cheap trick in the ME too many times.
I should have been clearer. Different religions use different calendars for calculating religious events. Christians and Jews use a very similar one, although Western and Easter Christians disagree over the correct date for Easter in relationship to the Jewish calendar - upon which the date of Easter is based.
However, secular calendars in the West, which are used by everybody, have been revised several times to make up for discrepancies that led to signifcant date shifts. Most people in the West accepted this, although certain groups (Old Calendar Orthodox, for example) were essentially going by the Julian calendar, which predated the current Gregorian calendar introduced in the 16th century that is now used as the universal civil calendar.
The Muslims, being from the ME and not part of Western changes, continued with their own calculations of time. I don’t know much about it and really can’t tell you why it shifts so.
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