Nimrah Bakhsh calls “Keeping up with the Kardashians,” the E! reality series, her “guiltiest, grossest pleasure.” But during Ramadan, she doesn’t see much of Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe, the celebrity sisters at the center of the show.
Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar, which ends on Sunday, is not only a time to fast from food, water, and sex during the daylight hours. Muslims also try to abstain from worldly sins and distractions — including gossip and backbiting, which the Koran likens to eating the flesh of a dead brother.
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"The idea of Ramadan is to try to sort of realign oneself, and to really think about what it means to be human, and bring out the best qualities, so you are worthy of being called God's noblest creation." So much to say about that but probably best to think it rather than say it.
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The fact that the Muslim American Society is running the show at the Roxbury mosque is cause for concern. The MAS is a front for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood here in the U.S. Here's the Muslim Brotherhood's stated strategic goal: "The Ikhwan (Muslim Brothers) must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions."
I hope they use this time to reflect on advocating peaceful relations with other religions including with the Jews of Israel and the Christians of Europe and elsewhere. I'd like to see the Muslim community condemning Muslim violence and coming out against the harsh, violent fundamentalism of the Wahabis, the Salafis, and the Taliban. Until then, these politically correct fluff pieces about Ramadan and the like are nothing but a joke.