Enes Kanter talks about fasting for Ramadan, getting advice from Hakeem Olajuwon

Yeah, too bad Ramadan was not arranged around the NBA playoffs.

 

Hakeem talks about the increased mental awareness actually helping him in the playoffs. Might be a good time to fast.

 

Muhammed should have thought about that.

 

Can't they change it?

Congress changed most of our holidays to Monday.

 

Yeah, some prophet that guy was. Pffft.

 

OK then! I'm fasting from now until the start of the game.

I anticipate needing lots of fluids by then.

 

I actually had a supervisor once ask me if I could take the day off for Yom Kippur the following week when it was more convenient for her. I said no.

 

Hakeem was my favorite growing up.

 

I always wondered what would happen if
(a) Ramadan fell around midsummer
(b) you were a Muslim at the North Pole.
Would you have to starve?

 

Ramaddan is at a different time each year, the muslim calender is built around the moon and the month of Ramaddan moves about 10 days each year and circles around the year

 

I can answer b, the answer is of course no. They have exceptions to this rule for places that don’t make sense, and instead they follow something like a 12 hour routine where they fast during Ramadan.

 

No, too bad people still believe in this nonsense. Religions are a scourge of the world.

 

I have no problem with people's individual beliefs. My problem is when they try to make their beliefs law and force the rest of us to follow them. Otherwise it's in the category of what people do in their private life and hence not my business.

 

Unfortunately that's exactly what happens in many (most?) Muslim countries. They are forced to follow the rules of this religion for fear of punishment by law or extrajudicial punishment from their Muslim community. Sorry, it's just hard for me to not think about how many people this religion (and others too) hurts and oppresses in the name of "tolerance".

 

I live in this country where states pass laws restricting women's bodies and allowing denial of health care to gay and trans people because they think that's Christian.

Don't want to send this to OT forum but no monopoly on forcing religion on others.

What I specifically said was that if a person chooses to fast during Ramadan or Yom Kippur or Lent, their business.

 

I think it's obvious that his scoring is hurting from his injury and the fasting. He's rebounding like a fiend though.

 

Have you ever considered what would happen if Ramaddan was held on another planet, such as one without a moon?