What Are Ramadan's Strangest Traditions From Around the World?

With Islam being such a widespread and ancient religion, it has blended itself with many of the local aspects from region to region. This has given birth to several traditions celebrating Ramadan along with the unique flavors of each country. Daily News Egypt looks into the strangest traditions during the holy month from around the world.

Chechnya

On the morning of the first day of Ramadan, the Chechens visit graves of their relatives and Sufi gatherings are held. Children whose birth coincides with the holy month are named “Ramadan” for boys and “Marha” for girls.



Tajikistan

During the holy month, children roam neighborhoods in groups carrying bags to collect gifts while they sing cheerful songs. Muslims break their fasting with tea and milk drink, known as “Shershay”.



United States

Suicide bombers wear tuxedos.



Turkey

Once the Ramadan crescent is sighted, homes are sprayed with air fresheners of musk and rose water.



Indonesia

Schools and universities are given leave for a week until they are used to fasting.

The traditional drums, called “Al-Budok”, are danced to in order to celebrate the coming of the month.



Pakistan

The people of Pakistan hold a large celebration where all children who fast for the first time gather to encourage them and they wear gold-coated head covers to be distinguished.

Young people in Pakistan, particularly Peshawar, are turning to an old-fashioned game to keep them occupied during the late Ramadan nights – egg fighting. The game involves using a brightly colored boiled egg to crack your opponents’ egg and has been played for generations in Pakistan.



Mauritania

One of the popular traditions of the people of Mauritania during Ramadan is to read the entire Qur’an in one night.


Men also shave their heads before the month of Ramadan to grow new hair during the holy month, which they call “Ramadan hair”. Many young people tend to marry during the month of Ramadan so their marriages would be blessed.



Nigeria

Rich families daily host the poor over Iftar.



Uganda

People in Uganda fast for 12 hours as the equator passes through the country.

The relatives and neighbors gather every day at one of the houses for a group Iftar. Bananas are essential in the Iftar meal.



Thailand

Muslim families in Thailand sacrifice cattle or birds. The neighbors exchange Iftar meals, and women gather in a large yard in front of their houses to eat together.


Yemen

In Yemen, the people paint their houses and buy new utensils during Ramadan. They give more attention to decorating tables for Iftar in the streets and hold celebrations.



Sri Lanka

Once the moon crescent of Ramadan is sighted, people decorate their houses. The restaurants and coffee shops are closed until Iftar, while others open temporary shops serving food and drinks next to mosques during Ramadan. They are called “Dekak”.


Bangladesh

One of the most important traditions in Bangladesh during Ramadan is buying religious books as a huge book fair is held at the beginning of the month and continues until the end of Ramadan.

Russia

The fasting period in Russia sometimes reaches 22 hours, making it the longest fasting period in the world. Nevertheless, people are keen to fast and pray in mosques. In Moscow, the Ramadan tent is considered an important event and an authentic Ramadan habit. It can accommodate more than 600 people. For Iftar, kafas, a traditional drink, is preferred in Ramadan. In Tatarstan, the Muslim who is unable to fast can donate RUB 100 for every day they don’t fast.



Kazakhstan

Muslims receive Ramadan with joy. Expats return to the country to spend the month with their families. They also sacrifice cattle. People are keen to pray in mosques.

One of the most important customs there is the huge Iftar party held at the Hazrat Sultan Mosque which can accommodate up to 10,000 worshipers. The Iftar is attended by the head of state.

The people there break their fast by drinking camel or horse milk. The most famous dish is Ramadan is the mutton with rice and nuts.

What Are Ramadan's Strangest Traditions From Around the World?

Trump's new hairstyle?

Got these from The Daily Mail.

Looks great!

It affirms... I don't take any shit! 

Trump's new hairstyle?

Downtown LA

And their biggest concern is plastic straws and sheltering illegals?

The City of Angels is more like... 

The Megalopolis of Malignant Malfeasance

Cops who patrol Skid Row walk through the feces, urine, and trash. 

The LA Times reporter Steve Lopez called it 'the collapse of a city that's lost control'. It's what happens when you're so open-minded your brain falls out.

The mayor of LA is Eric Garcetti. That's him shaking hands with a black guy.

If the name Garcetti sounds familiar it was his father

who was the head of the District Attorney's office in LA that prosecuted the OJ case. We know how that turned out. Stupidity must be a family trait.

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Downtown LA

Imagine these two in the WH and we're left with Buttigieg to protect and defend America against all comers?

How much confidence do you place in that? 

Went to my fitness center. On the magazine table as I walked by there they were on the cover... Time magazine's new (unlikely... or chosen) residents of the WH. It stopped me in my tracks. I thought to myself...if Abraham Lincoln were alive today he would shit his pants.

This is progressivism in all its glory. Wikipedia defines it this way:

Progressivism is the support for or advocacy of social reform. As a philosophy, it is based on the idea of progress, which asserts that advancements in science, technology, economic development and social organization are vital to the improvement of the human condition.

 Got to admit it sounds great. So progressivism boils down to so-called progress...vital to the improvement of the human condition. Don't know about you but having two homosexuals in the WH running the country is not my idea of progress. In fact, it's exactly the opposite. A downward spiral into the pit of degeneracy. With progressivism, there's no end to the insanity because there can't be in order for it to persevere. They have to kick the door down in every debate... presenting the absurd as the norm. The progressive 'reconstruction of America' has no limit. The Civil War statues a testament to the ages had to go because they were found to be offensive. If they could talk I wonder what they would tell us? 

We need three bathrooms male, female, and for those who are not quite sure. 

Indigenous People Day kicked Christopher Columbus to the curb. And Joey Behar a budding economist about as astute as Paul Krugman had this to say, "Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?" Can't you feel the pain in this progressive? Or is it another session with their closest ally insanity?

A few more glaring examples: 

IMMIGRATION

CA alone spends $23 billion annually on illegals but we can't find $5.7 billion to build a wall to keep them out? From a cost analysis standpoint, you would have to be a Sears accountant not to figure this one out.

And while all this is going on instead of getting rid of illegals they want to get rid of ICE and turn Border Patrol into the Welcome Wagon!

This is progress? For who? Certainly not American taxpayers. It's bad enough they support illegals unconditionally, and by unconditionally I mean, they don't want them deported even after they commit murder!  

ABORTION

This one is a progressive Pro-Choice wet dream. Ever since Roe vs Wade became law we have observed a steady progression as to who, where, and when an abortion can take place. We are a far cry from when Roe vs Wade was initially enacted. So far away in fact that Dr. Kermit Gosnell who is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for killing babies born alive and then severing their spine (among other atrocities) could now legally have a thriving practice in NY doing the exact same thing! Thanks to a Catholic named Andrew Cuomo.

SOCIALISM

America is the most prosperous successful nation in the world proving Capitalism works. I say that out of pride and love for my country.  But it also happens to be a rock solid fact. So what do progressives/socialists want to do?   'Fix' America so we will no longer have the dilemma of providing the highest standard of living in the world by changing our way of government from Capitalism to Socialism even though Socialism has proven to be a dismal failure time and time again.  

Bernie and a plethora of other progressives/socialists are leading the caravan departing from the United States...destination Venezuela. Are you prepared to follow their lead?

 I hope not.

Imagine these two in the WH and we're left with Buttigieg to protect and defend America against all comers?

Libertarians want Justin Amash to run for president, and he may do it

Not a whole hell of a lot of difference between this POS and McCain.

This traitor's chances of becoming the next POTUS are about as good as Avenatti's. To tell you the truth I never heard of the guy until he called for Trump's impeachment. Looks like an attempt to make a name for himself in order to run as the Libertarian candidate against Trump.

Getting back to McCain for a moment...did you see this?

John McCain Recited Names Of Dictators During Trump Inaugural, Senator Says

“I sat on that stage between Bernie and John McCain, and John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because he knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation,” Klobuchar said. “He understood it. He knew because he knew this man more than any of us did.”

There he is with his fellow Democrats who he sat with him at the Trump inauguration.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) takes a selfie with (from right) Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the late John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) during President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017.

Piss and moan all you want Meghan your father was a POS... l-o-n-g before Trump ever came along!

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by Steven Nelson

Rep. Justin Amash's tweets declaring that President Trump committed impeachable offenses have made him an outcast among Republicans, but many of his supporters are excited about what they see as a sign he will run for president as a Libertarian.

The Michigan Republican, 39, is known for defying party leaders on issues such as mass surveillance and government spending. And since Trump took office, he’s been viewed as a possible Libertarian champion in 2020 — a notion amplified by his Saturday remarks.

Amash’s emergence as a possible competitor may have caught Trump’s campaign off-guard.

“Who?" one Trump campaign official said with a chuckle Thursday when asked about a possible Amash run. “Is that a thing?” another asked skeptically. “I had not heard that.”

[Related: Amash gets a primary challenger after impeachment remarks]

A person familiar with Amash’s thinking who spoke with him in recent days told the Washington Examiner that Amash "hasn’t ruled it out” or “pulled any triggers” on a presidential campaign.

Libertarian activist Larry Sharpe, a New York gubernatorial candidate last year, said he spoke twice recently with people close to Amash, who sought advice.

"There are people who are close to the [Amash] campaign who have made calls to members of the Libertarian National Committee and also to me personally, to just talk about the future. But also to talk about Libertarian Party infrastructure,” Sharpe said.

“They wanted to know: Can they make impact as a Libertarian?” Sharpe said, describing the most recent call. “He wants to make an impact for a freer America. If Justin Amash believes the Libertarian Party is the best way to do that, I’m sure he will come aboard.”

Sharpe said the most recent caller spoke with him in April about “opportunities” as a Libertarian, including the possibility of third-party runs for the House, Senate, or presidency.

The person familiar with Amash’s thinking who recently spoke with him, however, said it was “extremely, extremely unlikely” that Amash would run for the House or Senate as a Libertarian.

If Amash does run for president, he will be eagerly embraced by Libertarians, who see him as an eloquent evangelist for a political ideology on the decline under Trump.

“He’s terrific,” said former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, an ex-Republican who ran as the Libertarian candidate in 2012 and 2016, taking 3.3% against Trump.

Johnson aligned with the party on most issues, such as legalizing marijuana and avoiding foreign military interventions but made some members uncomfortable by seeming to embrace gay rights at the expense of the personal freedom of business owners.

Iowa Libertarian Party Chairman Joseph Howe said Amash “comes off as more principled on free market principles” and may be less prone to gaffes. “Amash has probably had more press in the past few days than Johnson in the whole campaign,” he added.

[Related: House Freedom Caucus condemns Amash for backing impeachment]

Howe is leading a national effort to draft Amash, coordinating with the Facebook group Amash 4 President, which has about 800 members.

“When you see something like this, I think it greatly increases the chances he's looking for another party,” Howe said, though he said he believed Amash called for impeachment as “a principled move” rather than a political opportunity.

“It's a long shot, but we don’t need 51% to win, you can force it to the Congress,” Howe said about a possible presidential run.

Amash has supported some Trump policies, such as improving relations with Russia, but is often critical of Trump’s conduct, writing last year he felt “something is not right” after watching Trump’s “bizarre” behavior at a press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. His Saturday tweets on impeachment prompted a state lawmaker to announce a primary challenge.

“With the bridge burning that's going on, there are a limited number of sensible possibilities” for Amash, said national Libertarian Party chairman Nicholas Sarwark, who added, “he's pretty close to the vest in terms of not sharing his plans.”

Richard Winger, a longtime Libertarian, noted Amash introduced legislation in March that would ease ballot access for minor parties. “This tells me he has been interested in minor party problems for several months now,” Winger said.

Amash’s office did not respond to a request for comment. This year, he has indicated he may indeed run. In January, Amash told CNN, “I’d never rule anything out." In January, he sidestepped the question, saying the ideal presidential candidate "wears Air Jordans" — while wearing Air Jordans.

Libertarians want Justin Amash to run for president, and he may do it