What a joke! ......
I started to fast since before i could remember I didn't even know why i was fasting because i was so young by the time i was five years of age i was having competitions with my uncle's to see who could keep the most fasts this year.
My parents never asked me to keep a fast as a kid and the fact was if the fast ever got to much for us we just break it and start again the next day. The whole culture and tradition of this month the month of Ramadan just gave you a buzz when your a little kid who's been running around in the heat all day and your lips are dry as anything you come home five minutes before the iftari just in time to open your fast and in front of you got all the food and fizzy pop and then it's time to open your fast when you open it there's no way of describing that buzz!..
It's a natural high th...e closest feeling must be to that of taking Crystal meth or though I can't say for sure because I've never tried Crystal meth but i think I've illustrated my point. ...Ramadan has been a big part of my childhood I wouldn't change that part my life for anything it was one of the best parts of my life!
By the time i got high school I was keeping more fasts than kid's who were older than me. ....
30 years later my kids have the same passion without me even asking or telling them to fast my oldest son hasn't missed a obligatory fast since the age of 7 Alhamdulillah and my son Abdul Ghany is already excited for Ramadan I told him you only keeping fasts on the weekends this year he was so upset about it.When I look at policies of this retarded government i feel like they are robbing not just my kids but this whole nation they robbing children's childhoods all because of stupid Islamophobia! ..
Tell me what's fasting got to do with foreign policy?...
In reality all this means is when we go in and say our kid's want to keep a fast it gives the teachers an excuse to report our kid's on suspicion or the possibility that may be being "Radicalised "
 
Muslim have their children under the age of puberty fast half a day or a few hours, but kids will and try to fast all day, fasting does not cause harm to your body their a more then one study on how fasting is good for your body and helps with some illness. Children don't pass out from fasting or even Adults unless they are in heat all day or tough physical activity, I hope that the school has cooling then it will be no harm on the child. Islamically, a person isn't even obligated to fast unless they've hit puberty (and even then, a person doesn't fast if they're menstruating, pregnant, breastfeeding, or physically unable to (i.e. diabetic, ill, etc.)) Most of the time parents don't make their children fast; rather, children see the people around them fasting, and want to take part in it too. 🙂 Many parents actually discourage young children from fasting
 
Non-Muslim teachers have no right to tell Muslim children what to do during the month of Ramadan. It is the responsibility of their parents to decide about their children. It is a crime against humanity to send Muslim children to state or church schools with non-Muslim teachers. There should be a positive co-relation between home and school, otherwise, the child would be lost in Western Jungle.
 
A Muslim child needs a state funded Muslim school with Muslim teachers as role models during his/her developmental period. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school. I am willing to bet there are lots of Brits who have jumped through hoops to get their children into high performing Catholic or C of E schools yet claim to be atheist. I am also willing to bet they would be the first to complain if their children were offered a place at a school with a high proportion of Muslim children. Faith schools are popular with families across denominations and none. If there was a 'don't like' message they would want a place. The whole problem with the "Trojan Horse" schools was that they were providing the education that parents wanted. Speaking to a head of one of the inspected schools it turns out that one of the failed six schools failed because of negative answers given by pupils. The following question was crucial. " Have you been told that it is morally ok for lesbians and gay men to have same sex relationships?" If pupils answered in the negative this was taken as evidence that the school had not taught tolerance and therefore didn't safeguard against extremist views. I heard a parent of a child at one of the Birmingham schools on News night say something like "as 90% of the children here are Muslim, the school should cater for their needs as Muslims".
 
Muslim children in state schools with non-Muslim teachers are not in a position to develop positive self-confidence and self-esteem. Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school.
 
Muslim community would like to protect their children from the evils of the western society. You better educate your children and let Muslim community educate their children according the needs and demands of the parents.
 
Muslim schools teach Muslim children that sex outside marriage is a sin. Homosexuality is also a sin. Sex before marriage and homosexuality are western values and Muslims are not supposed to adopt them.
 
British values, which are said to include respect for legally protected characteristics such as homosexuality, religion, gender change, disability, race and marital status. what a warping of British values, the British values I was taught are respect for the institution of marriage, freedom of religious pursuit, freedom of speech, respect for the monarch. respect for others.
 
Indiscipline, incivility, binge drinking, drug addiction, gun and knife crimes, teenage pregnancies and abortion are part and parcel of British schooling. These are the reasons why majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. Only less than 5% attend Muslim schools and more than 95% keep on attending state and church schools to be mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers.
 
The British establishment is wrong in thinking that Imams are to blame for extremism. Imams are not solution to the problem for extremism. Extremism is nothing to do with Imams. Extremism is not created from abroad, it is coming from within. Britain fails to help Muslim communities feel part of British society. Race trouble is being predicted by the Daily Express, because of an ethnic boom in UK major cities. Muslim communities need imams for the solutions of their needs and demands in their own native languages. Muslim parents would like to see their children well versed in Standard English and to go for higher studies and research to serve humanity. The fact is that majority of Muslim children leave schools with low grades because monolingual teachers are not capable to teach Standard English to bilingual Muslim children.
IA
http://www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk

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On Laylatul Qadr Each Letter of Quran worth over 300,000 good deeds!

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Towards the end of Ramadan
Do we have "Double Intentions" this Ramadan?

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20 Sunnah's to do on Eid

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7 Good Deeds to continue after Ramadan

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On February 15, 2003, millions of ordinary citizens in over 800 cities around the world poured into the streets to protest against the rush towards the invasion of Iraq



According to BBC News, 6 to 10 million people took part in protests in up to 60 countries, on every continent, over the weekend of the 15th and 16th of February 2003. Other reports estimated the actual number was closer to 30 million. Protesters from Tasmania to Iceland, New York to Sydney, and London to Rome, marched against the impending war in Iraq. Even at the McMurdo base in Antarctica, 
more than 50 scientists staged a half-hour rally.



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From The Guardian

Isis reaches gates of ancient Syrian city Palmyra, stoking fears of destruction

Islamic State group fighters have advanced to the gates of ancient Palmyra on Thursday, raising fears the Syrian world heritage site could face destruction of the kind the jihadis have already wreaked in Iraq.

Isis fighters were battling Syrian troops less than two kilometres (barely a mile) from the remains of one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world, Syria’s director of antiquities said.

The comments following the story are extra fun.

I guess the stones and buildings matter more to some than the hundreds and thousands being killed.

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Above is an embarrassing interview Theresa May gave this morning on BBC Radio 4, about Prime Minister David Cameron’s new measures to counter what he calls “Extremism”, by giving more powers to the state to restrict the movement and speech of those who express opinions that are legal yet considered ‘radical’.

Theresa becomes visibly disturbed and discomforted when the interviewer, John Humphrys, poses the most elementary challenge: what does she mean by ‘extremists’?

She is unable to give a cogent response and instead recites the usual rhetoric about ‘British values’ and ‘tolerance’, in the light of the fear-stoking and empirically-discredited [1] “conveyor-belt theory” to terrorism, which the interviewer quickly dismisses as ‘woolly’. He highlights that in fact their measures seem to be a flagrant and arbitrary restriction on the free speech of those whose ideas they simply do not like (which they are unable to otherwise refute or challenge).

When backed into a corner she even mentions the Birmingham “Trojan Horse” fiasco, which has been proven to be a hoax by the recent Education select committee’s findings [2]. Perhaps more worryingly is her concern regarding the Trojan Hoax fiasco: “People were concerned at their attempts to change our minds.”

This is clearly worrying for many…

The full interview can be seen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r8z20

Source: Islam21c.com

Notes:

[1] http://www.islam21c.com/politics/new-study-extremism-does-not-cause-ter…

[2] http://www.islam21c.com/politics/goves-trojan-horse-hoax-finally-expose…

On Monday, the UK government formally announced that "Star Wars, Episode VIII," would begin shooting at Pinewood Studios.

Being May 4th, it was "Star Wars Day." But May 4th, 2015, was also the 15th of Rajab, 1436 -- and Rajab is one of the most noted months in the Islamic calendar, with the middle of the month being a particularly auspicious occasion.

Read more @ CNN

Just over a month left.

Anyone doing anything to prepare?

There are a few fasts that people keep in the month leading to Ramadan, always good preparation.