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To: pocotrader who wrote (1221377)	4/16/2020 3:03:40 PM
From: Maple MAGA	Respond to of 1580034

You’re right poco, for once in your life you’re right. Guide for the Perplexed: Infidels, the Coronavirus and Ramadan APR 16, 2020 2:00 PM BY ANJULI PANDAVAR Eight days from now, Ramadan will once again be upon us. Some things will not change: Muslims will fast during the day and binge at night; jihad mass murders will spike; the mainstream media will carry double-page spreads extolling the virtues of these spiritually advanced people getting closer to God; and so forth. But some things will be different. Ramadan 1441 happens to fall smack-bang into the middle of CoVID-19 pandemic 2020, and as we all know, some Muslims have not exactly been falling over themselves to comply with lockdowns, masks and restrictions on gatherings. The notorious Friday jumu’ah problem is about to get a great deal worse. Every night during Ramadan, Muslims attend Taraweeh, a special, extra-long, late-night prayer that starts right after the night prayer of Isha’a, for which the mosques are usually packed, especially during the first three weeks. Additionally, for a Muslim who usually prays at home (except for the main Friday prayer, of course), this is the month for increasing the number of prayers in the mosque, and for remaining in the mosque between prayers, catching up on missed prayers. In addition to that, many Muslims will go to mosque early for the sunset prayer, Maghrib, so they can break their fast in mosque communally before the prayer. There will be plenty of old people hanging around inside mosques all day long anyway, prayer or no prayer, to stack up piety credits with Allah, and, not to put too fine a point on it, the prize for dying in a mosque during Ramadan — you guessed it — is that the deceased goes straight to Heaven. So where will there be a large concentration of people with weakened immune systems due to fasting? In mosques. Where will people be packed in shoulder-to-shoulder for many hours a day, especially at night? In mosques. Where will large numbers of people be breathing in air directly from the floor, where coronavirus settles after half an hour of being airborne? In mosques. Where will there be a particularly high concentration of old people, especially aware at this time of their increased chances of dying? In mosques. Where is the coronavirus most likely to spread? In mosques. Where will all the prayers for the deceased be said? In mosques. Where will the authorities be least willing to interfere during Ramadan? In mosques. We have the makings of a perfect storm. All of this presents a particular dilemma for the virtue-signalling infidel. When the virtue signaller’s Muslim neighbour, colleague or friend invites him or her to join the family in breaking their fast, such a wonderfully moving and eye-opening multicultural experience, what are they going to do? For those invitations will certainly come. Will they defy the “Islamophobic” health measures to show their solidarity with a “community under siege,” will they decline and court “Islamophobia,” or will they do the really Sharia thing and lie, with some lame excuse for why they cannot make it, much as they really, really appreciate the invitation and would have loved to join them? What about the generously-shared dish of delicacies that your Muslim neighbours will be sending around during Ramadan? Take it, bin it and wash your hands? I don’t know. I shouldn’t care, but potentially, your virtue signallers can become the first circle out from ground zero. Assuming the infidel has no virtue-signalling issues, what is he or she to do as the coronavirus pandemic gets its second boost from Ramadan? I know what I’ll be doing: I’ll be avoiding devout and observant Muslims like the plague.