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Monday Evening Open Thread: Ramadan Mubarak!

by Anne Laurie|  April 12, 20216:28 pm| 24 Comments

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Best wishes to those who observe this month; may your daily fasts be uneventful and your prayers powerful.

From the AP:

… Ramadan, which begins Tuesday in Egypt and other countries across the Middle East, comes as much of the world has been hit by an intense new coronavirus wave. For many Muslims navigating restrictions, that means hopes of a better Ramadan than last year have been dashed with the surge in infection rates though regulations vary in different countries.

A time for fasting, worship and charity, Ramadan is also when people typically congregate for prayers, gather around festive meals to break their daylong fast, throng cafes and exchange visits.

Once again, some countries are imposing new restrictions. But concern is high that the month’s communal rituals could stoke a further surge.

“The lack of adherence that happened last Ramadan, hasty lifting of the curfew imposed at the time and re-opening of places of congregations … led to grave consequences that lasted for months,” said Ahmed Al-Mandhari, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean…

As #Ramadan begins this week, Muslim authorities have discussed regulations for online prayers and banning public dinners after sunset. Many mosques are closed, and vaccines are recommended. DW's @JenniferHolleis and @CathrinSchaer report. https://t.co/meEDEcYWFE

— DW Deutsche Welle (@DeutscheWelle) April 12, 2021

Nightly prayers at the mosque? Big iftars? Vaccines? Ramadan 2021 brings decisions for Muslims. https://t.co/7iMuR4uXZ7

— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) April 11, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    April 12, 2021 at 6:35 pm

    Amir said he was waiting on a ruling on vaccine use during the daytime hours. ?

  2. 2.

    Martin

    April 12, 2021 at 6:37 pm

    Wondering when the grievances about the NCAA pulling events out of states that pass anti-trans bills will start to hit. Those bills violate NCAA qualifying rules, and it’s not just bowl games, but also a zillion lesser followed sports that gets sprinkled around the US. Right now they’re pretty heavily sprinkled in the anti-trans states because they’re opening up to sporting events sooner. Lot of money involved.

  3. 3.

    Baud

    April 12, 2021 at 6:41 pm

    “I can confirm that the president of the United States does not spend his time tweeting conspiracy theories,” Psaki told reporters during a news conference, in an apparent jab at former President Donald Trump’s Twitter habits before the social-media platform permanently suspended his account after the Capitol riot on January 6.

    Psaki’s comments were in response to GOP Sen. John Cornyn after he tweeted excerpts from a Politico article that called Biden’s tweets “unimaginably conventional.”

    “The president is not doing cable news interviews,” Cornyn tweeted, quoting the Politico article. “Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional. The public comments are largely scripted. Biden has opted for fewer sit down interviews with mainstream outlets and reporters.”

  4. 4.

    espierce

    April 12, 2021 at 6:42 pm

    @Martin: Looks like your timing is prescient:

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2021/04/12/if-florida-transgender-sports-bill-passes-ncaa-says-it-could-pull-championships/

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    April 12, 2021 at 6:47 pm

    @Baud:

    Tweets from his account are limited and, when they come, unimaginably conventional

    This was one of the things I liked about Biden in the primary, and it’s even better now that he’s in office.

    I mean, sure, Cornyn is, once again, trying to push that ‘Biden is a mindless puppet’ attack line, because goodness knows it worked so well the first umpteen times it was tried.

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    April 12, 2021 at 6:48 pm

    @Baud:

    Reposted:

    We’ve gone from “I didn’t see the president’s unhinged tweets” to “It is suspicious that the president isn’t doing unhinged tweets.”
    pic.twitter.com/1r2xP7WpVW

    — Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 12, 2021

  7. 7.

    Baud

    April 12, 2021 at 6:50 pm

    @dmsilev:

    @Steeplejack (phone):

    I endorse Republicans reminding our voters about how they felt when Trump’s tweeted.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    April 12, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    @Baud:

    I chased down the tweet; apparently Cornyn didn’t say it himself. Rather, he cut and pasted from Politico without using quotation marks or providing attribution (i.e., plagiarism). Many of the replies are funny, but this one wins the day:

    Imagine being so fucking stupid you think a president behaving competently is actually a problem.
    — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 12, 2021

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    April 12, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    Not treading water 24/7 in the deepest end of the outrage pool is wonderfully pacific.

  10. 10.

    Joe Falco

    April 12, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    @espierce:

    Florida saw what happened when North Carolina passed its own anti-trans bill a few years ago with the NCAA pulling out events as a result and said, “Hold my beer.”

  11. 11.

    laura

    April 12, 2021 at 6:57 pm

    Wishing a joyful and contemplative Ramadan to all who adhere and especially beloved commenter Amir Khalid.

  12. 12.

    zhena gogolia

    April 12, 2021 at 7:00 pm

    @laura: 
    Same here.

  13. 13.

    dmsilev

    April 12, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    Vice President Harris is making her mark on the Washington-area crochet scene

    When Vice President Harris visited a woman-owned yarn shop in Alexandria last month, she mentioned a little-known fact about herself that left the fiber arts community a bit giddy.

    The new vice president is a crocheter.

    “I was raised by a mother who said ‘I am not going to let you sit in front of that television doing nothing.’ And so I have crocheted more afghans than I can tell you,” Harris said while visiting the store. “And our daughter is a knitter.”

    At the shop, Harris found out about a special hand-dyed yarn named in her honor (Observatory Circle) from Neighborhood Fiber Co., a woman-owned Baltimore-based business. Five days later, on International Women’s Day, a crocheted mural of Harris’s likeness and the words “I’m Speaking” was installed at the Wharf. And with all the Googling of “Kamala Harris and crochet” there was a spike at craftyiscool.comof online sales for a pattern to crochet a Harris doll in the Japanese style of amigurumi. (Translated from the Japanese, amigurumi means little knitted toy, says Allison Hoffman who owns the Austin business, “but I tell people that I crochet small dolls and cute toys out of yarn.”)

  14. 14.

    PST

    April 12, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    I remember a few years ago wishing a cheerful Ramadan Mubarak to a business acquaintance who I assumed was a Muslim because he had an Arabic name. He laughed and said thank you, but his family had been Christians for about as long as that was even possible; nevertheless he appreciated the thought.

  15. 15.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 12, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    So I know there’s been some commentary here from some bozos about how the Mazda MX-5 is a feminine car. Since I am comfortable with my masculinity, I went and bought one today. What a fun car (for those people who think cars are fun.)

  16. 16.

    Gin & Tonic

    April 12, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @dmsilev: Back in 2008, I was at an event where I met an older white woman who mentioned that she was a member of “knitters for Obama.” I don’t hear all that well when there’s a lot of ambient noise, so there was kind of an awkward, long pause before I figured out how to respond.

  17. 17.

    pluky

    April 12, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    @dmsilev: so when can we expect the first VP Harris as Madame Defarge meme?

  18. 18.

    Dan B

    April 12, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    Now the presence of men in dashiki’s in the neighborhood makes sense.  There are a couple mosques around.  One seems nice.  The other is not.  There are a couple markets which reminds me I should get some Injera the soft pancake like bread.

  19. 19.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    April 12, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    I’m eligible for vaccines at midnight!

    I 100% credit Joe for accelerating the schedule. PA was stuck in group 1A week after week, month after month. Biden started pushing for acceleration and around Apr 1 PA announced that they would be opening groups 1B, 1C and 2 on Apr 5, 12 and 19 (that was actually before Biden announced Apr 19 as a new national target).

    Well today Gov. Wolf has announced that the doors open for everybody tomorrow, Apr 13.

    This is what leadership looks like.

  20. 20.

    Bill Arnold

    April 12, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    Can somebody explain why the contemporary depicted crescent moon is always lit past 180 degrees?
    The Sumerians usually got it right, with a common depiction of Innana (venus), Nanna/Suen/Sin (the new/crescent moon[1], depicted, is his peak), and Utu/Shamash (sun).
    (Is the star in elongated crescent it just artistic license? Did somebody observe a small lunar asteroid impact during a crescent moon? Etc.)

    [1] Moon is new in several hours! https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/phases/

  21. 21.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    April 12, 2021 at 9:41 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Congratulations and happy trails! ?

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    April 12, 2021 at 10:09 pm

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Happy for you!

  23. 23.

    Ken

    April 12, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): I must say I admire how Matthew Gertz is taking his sudden fame.  Does anyone know his politics before this started?  He seems fairly sane, and willing to call out idiocy, now.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    April 12, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    @Ken:

    He works for Media Matters for America, “the nation’s premier progressive media watchdog,” so I think he’s one of the good guys.

    The “I am not Matt Gaetz” thing has been around for a while, just rocketed into the stratosphere lately because of—well, you know.

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