Ramadan Kareem!

[Leslie Anne]

Years ago (1990 or so) I was in Morocco with another KD during Ramadan. We didn't know what it was. The first day a guide met us at our hotel to take us around and we were both drinking sodas in the hotel lobby. Our guide was shocked that we were drinking during the day. Telling him we weren't Muslim didn't help. We had no idea how disrespectful we had been. I felt awful about it!


DubaiSis, thanks for starting this thread and sharing your insights.

Ramadan Kareem! to those who participate.

[PM_Mama00]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

I'm always concerned for muslim athletes this time of year. They don't give up their training or anything, and they don't drink any water during the day.

In college, we had quite a few exchange students from the middle east in the engineering school. We had a 6-9pm evening class one fall quarter, and at 7pm on the dot one night, one of the muslim guys announced "I'm ordering pizza for everyone!!!!!" The professor was muslim too, so we ended up having our own little iftar right there in the classroom with pizzas and breadsticks galore. From then until the end of Ramadan, about 3 weeks later, we all brought in snacks to share for after 7pm.

Welcome to Dearborn, Michigan.

I heard a while ago that the Dearborn football teams were going to do their 2 a days earlier in the morning and later at night this way those fasting didn't have to practice in the hot sun. I'm not sure if they are still doing this.