Ramadan

As Ramadan comes to a close consider this:

I have been told that Ramadan moves up 11 days every year (because it is based on the lunar calendar).  What does that mean?  Today's 20 something Muslims have never experienced a summer Ramadan.  It takes approximately 33 years to go around the calendar. 

Imagine living with temperatures over 110 every day.  The days are 14 hours long.  You cannot eat or drink anything.

That's much different than living with highs of 80 and a day that lasts 10 hours.  A few years ago that's what Ramadan was like here.  Sadly, it will only get harder and harder for at least the next 10 years.

One of my Muslim colleagues used to live in Finland.  When Ramadan falls over the winter the fasting would last one hour.  Gee, I could do that!  When Ramadan is in the summer they would be restricted to only an hour or two in which they could eat or drink.  "But that's not hard because the weather was cool," he explained. 

If I were Muslim I would be seriously looking at jobs in Australia.