{"id":1229,"date":"2005-10-03T21:50:45","date_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/10\/03\/wednesday_ramadan"},"modified":"2005-10-03T21:50:45","modified_gmt":"2005-10-03T20:50:45","slug":"wednesday_ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/10\/03\/wednesday_ramadan","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given the flood of &#8220;major&#8221; mosques which have declared that Ramadan is tomorrow on the basis of dubious &#8220;sightings&#8221; in Saudi Arabia, I&#8217;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; <a href=\"http:\/\/islamiblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/for-sake-of-public-benefit-and-unity.html\">IslamiBlog reports<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\">IslamOnline<\/a> 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&#8217;ud Khan has recommended people to read the information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crescentmoonwatch.org\/\">Moon Watch<\/a> before starting fasts on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the flood of &#8220;major&#8221; mosques which have declared that Ramadan is tomorrow on the basis of dubious &#8220;sightings&#8221; in Saudi Arabia, I&#8217;ve collated a list of places where people are starting on Wednesday.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramadan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-jP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}