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We’re a few days into the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, and many of the people around me here — including our Palestinian Arab guide and driver, as well as the waiters and others who provide our water and other drinks for warm days and who serve our breakfasts, lunches, and dinners — are fasting from sunrise until sundown every day of the month. It makes life as tourists here just a bit awkward, at least from my perspective. So I’ve tried to remember to wish all the Muslims that I meet Ramadan karim — “[Have] a generous Ramadan,” pronounced RAH-ma-DAHN ka-REEM. It’s the very least that I can do.
And I don’t know why I’ve been so slow in thinking of it, but I would like to take this opportunity to wish a Ramadan karim to any and all Muslim readers that I may have out there. May you have a joyous and fulfilling Ramadan!
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For some basic information about Ramadan, you might find this brief piece of use:
“Why Ramadan is called Ramadan: 6 questions answered”
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This is an excellent article, and I strongly commend it for your reading:
“How evangelicals can support Muslims this Ramadan”
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It’s deeply sad that this needs to be a serious concern:
Did you watch the video about the appalling woman and her unfortunate children?
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This is wrong if it’s even partially true:
“Report: Over 1,000 charity groups are helping fund fringe anti-Muslim projects”
My major concern is simply that terms like anti-Muslim and Islamophobia can easily be tossed around far too casualy to be of any use. (I’ve debated Robert Spencer, for instance, and I think he’s substantially and seriously wrong. But he’s not outside the pale of civil dissent and discussably substantive disagreement.) Besides which, I’ve never trusted the Southern Poverty Law Center as far as I can toss a medium-sized anvil — and recent disclosures about them have scarcely enhanced my confidence in them:
Posted from Jerusalem, Israel
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