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2014-06-29 Olde Tyme Religion

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Posted by lord garth 2014-06-29 08:15|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 AP yawl do Ramadan?

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-29 10:49|| 2014-06-29 10:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmm, Ramadan and BaconFest both start on the same day. How often does that happen?

Posted by SteveS 2014-06-29 12:22|| 2014-06-29 12:22|| Front Page Top

#3 should be an annual thing

Posted by Frank G 2014-06-29 13:03|| 2014-06-29 13:03|| Front Page Top

#4 No true Muslim can last long in the lands of the midnight sun.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-06-29 13:22|| 2014-06-29 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Didn't the Vikings have a Muslim advisor of some importance a thousand years ago?

Posted by Glenmore 2014-06-29 13:25|| 2014-06-29 13:25|| Front Page Top

#6 glenmore,
you may be thinking of Ahmad ibn Fadlan who was an envoy from the caliphate to one of the Khanates in the 10th century. He wrote about the burial of a viking ship.

Posted by lord garth 2014-06-29 14:40|| 2014-06-29 14:40|| Front Page Top

#7 or you saw "13th Warrior"

Posted by Frank G 2014-06-29 15:51|| 2014-06-29 15:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Moslem holy days are defined much, ironically, as Jewish holy days, in that The Day begins at sunset the day before.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-06-29 16:56|| 2014-06-29 16:56|| Front Page Top

#9 a calendar day begins at dusk in both Islam and Judaism

also day = yom in both hebrew and arabic
also night = laylah in both hebrew and arabic

Posted by lord garth 2014-06-29 18:05|| 2014-06-29 18:05|| Front Page Top

#10 I see Palistine is listed as a country. When did that happen?

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2014-06-29 18:47|| 2014-06-29 18:47|| Front Page Top

#11 I see Palistine is listed as a country. When did that happen?

In the future, perhaps, though I wouldn't give it strong odds, Mugsy Glink. But the article is from Al Arabiya, and must please its target audience with such little white lies.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-29 18:55|| 2014-06-29 18:55|| Front Page Top

#12 "Little white lies"?

TW, you're too kind, too subtle.

Let me fix that for you: BIG BLACK LIES.

Posted by Barbara 2014-06-29 18:58|| 2014-06-29 18:58|| Front Page Top

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