Posted on 05/06/2020 2:06:52 PM PDT by robowombat
The Washington Post Wants You to Fast for Ramadan BY ROBERT SPENCER MAY 04, 2020 1:50 PM EST
The far-Left anti-Trump propaganda organ masquerading as a news source and operating under the name the Washington Post on Thursday published an inspiring op-ed entitled “As American Muslims fast this Ramadan, maybe the rest of America should consider joining in.” The Post’s articles exhorting people to keep the Lenten fast or the Yom Kippur fast have not yet been published, but I’m sure that they will be when the appropriate times for them roll around again. Won’t they?
In the meantime, I’ll consider fasting for Ramadan, but I have a fairly good idea of what my conclusion will be. The article’s author, the imam Omar Suleiman, “founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an Islamic studies professor at Southern Methodist University,” writes: “The end result of Ramadan for Muslims, according to the Koran, is for ‘you to complete the period and glorify God for that which He has guided you, and that you may be amongst the grateful.’”
That sounds terrific, but what exactly does the Qur’an mean by glorifying God? According to the Islamic holy book, one way that Muslims can glorify God is by fighting and killing infidels (cf. 2:191. 4:89, 9:5, 9:29, 47:4, etc.). In fact, according to the prophet of Islam, there is no better way to glorify the supreme being. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: “Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).” Muhammad replied, “I do not find such a deed.” (Bukhari 4.52.44) A jihad group explained: “The month of Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God’s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators.”
Somehow that doesn’t sound as appealing as Omar Suleiman made it out to be. But the good imam can’t be faulted for walking through a door that the Washington Post opened. His article was published in response to a Post call: “The Opinions section is looking for stories of how the coronavirus has affected people of all walks of life. Write to us.” Suleiman saw an opportunity for dawah, Islamic proselytizing, and seized it.
Still, if someone had sent in those stories about how Americans should join in the Lenten fast, or the Yom Kippur fast, would the Post have published them? Almost certainly not. Suleiman’s article, however, is just one example of a general tendency: it is imperative in today’s society to be solicitous to Muslims and warmly positive toward even the aspects of Islam that are oppressive. World Hijab Day, on which non-Muslim women don hijabs in solidarity with Muslim women, is now an annual event, despite the fact that the hijab is prescribed because it is assumed that women bear the responsibility to retrain the sexual impulses of men, and are often harshly punished when they fail to do so. What’s more, the truly oppressed people in this case are the Muslim women who choose not to wear hijab, many of whom have been brutalized and even killed.
In a similar vein, cities in the United States, Canada, Germany and Australia have begun to allow the broadcast of the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers, despite the fact that it contains clear declarations of the supremacy of Islam and features the cry of “Allahu akbar” (Allah is greater) so favored by jihad terrorists worldwide. In Mississauga, Ontario, Mayor Bonnie Crombie explained that the city council’s “decision today to support the symbolic broadcasting of the call to prayer during Ramadan this year will provide inspiration, familiarity and comfort to our city’s Muslim community during this challenging time.” Likewise in Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey said: “At a time when physical distancing requires we pray apart, it’s incumbent on leaders to create a sense of togetherness where we can. Adhan [the call to prayer] provides solidarity and comfort, both of which are essential during a time of crisis.”
That’s just wonderful, but why is only the Muslim community the recipient of these efforts to provide comfort? What have officials in Mississauga or Minneapolis or anywhere else done to comfort any other community? Why do they think it incumbent upon them to take special steps to comfort Muslims during the coronavirus pandemic? Isn’t everyone unsettled and anxious?
The Washington Post’s call to non-Muslims to fast for Ramadan, World Hijab Day, and the broadcasting of the call to prayer in cities of Western nations all stem from the same impulse: the intelligentsia has adopted the idea that Muslims are a special class that warrants particular consideration above and beyond that given to other citizens. Perhaps they think that in doing this, they will blunt the impetus of the jihad imperative – after all, how can anyone think it right to fight to conquer and subjugate people who have been so nice to them? The intelligentsia is, of course, in for a rude surprise.
EAT MORE BACON!
Me to Wapo: Drop dead!
We’re having a great pork BBQ on Ramadamadingdong day.
I’m hosting a pig roast! Park your camels on the street, please!
And add full burkha to those facemasks, too
Ditto, bacon in a McDonald’s Bacon egg cheese biscuit for breakfast
Just fasting? Shouldn’t we also do holy acts of holy jihad in this holy month?
They can have their beliefs, and I’ll have mine.
I believe the WaPos can go F themselves...
WHAT?! I think I'll make a BLT. I have never understood the Ramadam fasting. All muslims do is flip their days for nights. They eat and party all night long then do their daytime fast.
The Post’s articles exhorting people to keep the Lenten fast or the Yom Kippur fast have not yet been published, but I’m sure that they will be when the appropriate times for them roll around again. Won’t they?
That is never going to happen.
Too late. I’ve been eating ham sammiches all week. My cats have been mooching off me, so I guess they’re infidels, too.
Yeah, I'm about to grill some boneless pork ribs.
Islam and Ramadan can bite my ass.
I’ll avoid reading the rag, The Washington Pest, for ramadingdong. Oh, wait...I don’t read that dishonest, pathetic, yellow sheet anyway. So sorry!
I’ve been fasting since just before Noon. I’ll be breaking may fast in about 20 minutes.I’ll be repeating that routine daily for...very probably...the rest of my life.
What’s left out of this....they mean cigarettes as well, along with all beverages (even water). So go and try from sun-up to sun-down....to make it in the summer period, with no water.
Just drink water. That’ll do it!
Me, I’m on IF so fasting’s not a thing, but, seriously, what lame-brain idjit came up with the idea of not taking fluids for the day?! That’s the part of the whole Islam-fasting thing that never made sense to me! Just a 1% drop of fluids leads to health issues and impaired thinking; I’m not going 8-12 hours without that going on!
I’ll have a carne adovada burrito, real fast. They after my greasy dump later, I’ll wipe with pages of the Unholy Q’rap.
Oh, carp. Why am I giving them ideas?
boneless ribs? Does not compute.
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