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OK, OK, so some people may have less sympathetic assessments of this excuse for a poem at Muslim Wake Up:

Ramadan is an annoying guest
who comes too often and stays too long
(“Him again? Isn’t it too early?”)
but you can’t say so because
he’s an old friend of the family,
goes back a long way and
it wouldn’t be polite, and so
year after year 
you put up with his coming:
the cheery announcement that makes you grouse,
the inconvenient hours,
the special foods and services he needs,
all the headaches
he gives you ...

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Given the flood of "major" mosques which have declared that Ramadan is tomorrow on the basis of dubious "sightings" in Saudi Arabia, I've collated a list of places where people are starting on Wednesday. In the UK, they include Slough and High Wycombe (Bucks), Leeds and Bradford (Yorks) and Peterborough. Birmingham and Manchester are divided; IslamiBlog reports that seven mosques in the area, on the basis of a prior agreement, have decided to start tomorrow, but a commenter there reports that a mosque in Altrincham is starting Wednesday; reports on Deenport suggest that other mosques are starting Wednesday.

IslamOnline reports that fasting in Turkey, Albania, Kosova and Ukraine (countries in Europe with substantial indigenous Muslim populations) is starting on Wednesday, along with Tunisia; Morocco, the Gambia and the community in South Africa are still undeclared. Mas'ud Khan has recommended people to read the information on Moon Watch before starting fasts on Tuesday.

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