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Moosighting Issues….

Moosighting Issues….

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as-salamu ‘alaykum, More on moonsighting… Rania Habib, Staff Reporter at The Gulf News reports: Ramadan ‘was announced on wrong day’ “Abu Dhabi: Astronomers in the UAE maintain that the announcement of the beginning of Ramadan on Friday, September 22, was incorrect, and that it should have in fact been announced two days later.UAE Astronomical Society engineer Mohammad Shawkat Odeh and American University of Sharjah Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dr Nidhal Guessoum explain that the crescent moon was impossible…

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Gender Relations, Sex and Perversion: The Dark Underside of Saudi Arabia

Gender Relations, Sex and Perversion: The Dark Underside of Saudi Arabia

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as-salamu ‘alaykum, This is an excellent first hand account of the hypocricy of the strictly segregated Saudi society. It is quite disgusting to read about the behaviour of Saudi men (and even women!) even in such places as the haramain. The blog is called SAFspace: “One of the puzzles that arise out of the Muslim?s obsession with modesty is that in a rather subverse manner it breeds an over-sexualized, perverse society. Women wear the veil and stick close to home,…

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Just how good is the Lottery?

Just how good is the Lottery?

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as-salamu ‘alaykum, I was in our local Tesco’s supermarket one evening (post-tarawih), I was with my daughter as she was enjoying a ride on the Thomas the Tank engine kiddie ride next to the lottery booth/stand where you get your lottery ticket and pick your numbers and take the ticket over to the cashier. I noticed a Pakistani man in full shalwar kameez and a topi (skull cap) trundle over to the booth and start filling in the ticket. I…

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