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Like Many Young Muslims, I Fake Fasting During Ramadan
Vice ^ | 15 May 2018 | Abe Love

Posted on 05/17/2018 1:21:34 AM PDT by Cronos

It’s Ramadan and my mother is in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove preparing a big feast. She’s fasting even though she is a 64-year-old diabetic. As for myself? Earlier in the day, I had a huge fish and chips platter for lunch, but my Muslim family believes I’m fasting with them.

This has gone on for years

During the month of Ramadan, most of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims will observe by basically not partaking in any vice for 30 days. From sunrise to sunset all able-bodied Muslims are required to “fast”; we are prohibited from eating, drinking (yes, even water), smoking, cursing, bad-mouthing, and any sexual behavior. Fasting during this month is one of the five pillars of Islam and not doing so can not only invite social ridicule within the Muslim community but in certain Muslim countries, can also lead to a fine or even being jailed. Most Muslims look forward to Ramadan every year because they see it as a religious cleanse that leaves them more pure and sets a tone for the rest of the year. That’s if you actually believe in the faith and practice it, which I don’t. But the Muslims around me don’t know that.

..Like many other millennials, we just aren’t religious but we just so happen to come from a religion that is customarily harsher with the idea of apostasy compared to other religions in the West.

..But probably the most insincere practice is what I call “fake fasting”—acting like you've been fasting all day and “breaking your fast” at night as if you weren’t eating double cheeseburgers and chugging diet cokes all day. Many do this in order to keep the facade going that they are still a practicing Muslim

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TOPICS: Islam; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: deathcult; fakereligion; fasting; homicidalmaniacs; islam; muslim; muslims; ramadan
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To: Cronos

Every year at the start of Ramadan, I get my employees to weigh themselves and write down their weight. By the end of Ramadan, 80% of them have gained weight. I try to point out to them what they are doing wrong, but they won’t hear it.


21 posted on 05/17/2018 3:50:44 AM PDT by punchamullah
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To: Cronos

That is why any person who is Muslim who decides to leave Islam has to do it in secret for safety sake.


22 posted on 05/17/2018 3:53:47 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Cronos

Ugh, this stupid device “corrects” words I spelled and used correctly.

I meant to say that I suspect the author to be using a fake name, not a cake name.

And I just watched the device change “fake” into “cake.” If I am not super careful, it can turn my clear writing into nonsense. I can’t turn “autocorrect” off.


23 posted on 05/17/2018 4:06:01 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Cronos

There are lots of western Christians who fast regularly but don’t advertise it.


24 posted on 05/17/2018 4:20:27 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: pepsionice

The kidney problem may be more related to dozens of generations of inbreeding/”cousin marriage”.


25 posted on 05/17/2018 4:24:03 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Biggirl

Check out the standard Lenten fasting practices from a century ago.


26 posted on 05/17/2018 4:25:15 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Telepathic Intruder

In the early days of my Air Force career (1963) I was in tech school at Keesler AFB, MS. We had an Afghan exchange officer in our class (Afghanistan was an ally and a kingdom at that time). Nicest guy in the world but a very, very strict moslem. By the time we finished with him he was as good a drinker as the rest of us and a connoisseur of fine foods, tobacco, and women. So there is hope.


27 posted on 05/17/2018 4:36:37 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: exDemMom
The author must be using a cake name. Otherwise, he has just advertised that he does not practice Islam, and has put his life in peril.

My cake name is Ring Ding Jr.

28 posted on 05/17/2018 4:41:17 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
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To: Cronos; Ciaphas Cain

Islam is far harsher on apostates (officially speaking, if the Koran is really a guide for them, which is no easy thing to determine. It IS a guide when it suits them, and not...when it doesn’t.) than it is on “unbelievers”, Christians, or even Jews, hard as that is to believe.


29 posted on 05/17/2018 4:44:09 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Cronos

Does he fake being British too?


30 posted on 05/17/2018 4:47:45 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Cronos

I think this guy should blow himself up.


31 posted on 05/17/2018 5:06:54 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Cronos

He forgot to mention that in muzzy countries you get beaten up for not fasting.


32 posted on 05/17/2018 5:13:02 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle. -Nietzche)
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To: miss marmelstein

Many people whose parents are of non-British origin become very British. Case in point Benjamin Disraeli who was a third generation immigrant — all his grandparents were Italian born Sephardic Jews.


33 posted on 05/17/2018 5:21:07 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

I thought he said his mother was in the kitchen SHAVING. Which would not be unusual for a muslime/Neanderthal female.


34 posted on 05/17/2018 5:22:40 AM PDT by IronJack (A)
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To: Romulus

I think we Western Christians have tried to make things too easy - what with lighter to no fasting and also nice comfy pews and comfy cushioned kneelers. The Orthodox have it right for their 2+ hour Divine Liturgy - you stand or you kneel in God’s presence. Only the old and the pregnant and the ill get to sit!


35 posted on 05/17/2018 5:26:37 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Romulus

btw, Dr. Eckleburg disappeared some years ago :) along with Quix and zC!


36 posted on 05/17/2018 5:27:21 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos
I Fake Fasting During Ramadan

Just can't keep his hands off the noodles......

37 posted on 05/17/2018 5:30:40 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Mother nature is a serial killer......)
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To: exDemMom

I liked cake name.


38 posted on 05/17/2018 5:41:27 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: Cronos
...Muslims will observe by basically not partaking in any vice for 30 days.

Eating food to sustain one's body...drinking water....vices?

Muslims are for damn sure an ignorant bunch of dumb asses.

I seek them out during Ramalamadingdong or whatever the hell it is, and make sure they see me pigging out during their hours of "sacrifice".

To hell with the bunch of them.

39 posted on 05/17/2018 5:42:18 AM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: Cronos

You have to go back to Disraeli to write that foreigners become veddy veddy British???

In fact, muslims in Great Britain are not assimilating. I would think we would all know this by now.


40 posted on 05/17/2018 6:02:33 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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