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Guide for the Perplexed: Infidels, the Coronavirus and Ramadan

Apr 16, 2020 2:00 pm By Anjuli Pandavar

Eight days from now, Ramadan will once again be upon us. Some things will not change: Muslims will fast during the day and binge at night; jihad mass murders will spike; the mainstream media will carry double-page spreads extolling the virtues of these spiritually advanced people getting closer to God; and so forth.

But some things will be different. Ramadan 1441 happens to fall smack-bang into the middle of CoVID-19 pandemic 2020, and as we all know, some Muslims have not exactly been falling over themselves to comply with lockdowns, masks and restrictions on gatherings. The notorious Friday jumu’ah problem is about to get a great deal worse.

Every night during Ramadan, Muslims attend Taraweeh, a special, extra-long, late-night prayer that starts right after the night prayer of Isha’a, for which the mosques are usually packed, especially during the first three weeks. Additionally, for a Muslim who usually prays at home (except for the main Friday prayer, of course), this is the month for increasing the number of prayers in the mosque, and for remaining in the mosque between prayers, catching up on missed prayers. In addition to that, many Muslims will go to mosque early for the sunset prayer, Maghrib, so they can break their fast in mosque communally before the prayer. There will be plenty of old people hanging around inside mosques all day long anyway, prayer or no prayer, to stack up piety credits with Allah, and, not to put too fine a point on it, the prize for dying in a mosque during Ramadan — you guessed it — is that the deceased goes straight to Heaven.

So where will there be a large concentration of people with weakened immune systems due to fasting? In mosques. Where will people be packed in shoulder-to-shoulder for many hours a day, especially at night? In mosques. Where will large numbers of people be breathing in air directly from the floor, where coronavirus settles after half an hour of being airborne? In mosques. Where will there be a particularly high concentration of old people, especially aware at this time of their increased chances of dying? In mosques. Where is the coronavirus most likely to spread? In mosques. Where will all the prayers for the deceased be said? In mosques. Where will the authorities be least willing to interfere during Ramadan? In mosques. We have the makings of a perfect storm.

All of this presents a particular dilemma for the virtue-signalling infidel. When the virtue signaller’s Muslim neighbour, colleague or friend invites him or her to join the family in breaking their fast, such a wonderfully moving and eye-opening multicultural experience, what are they going to do? For those invitations will certainly come. Will they defy the “Islamophobic” health measures to show their solidarity with a “community under siege,” will they decline and court “Islamophobia,” or will they do the really Sharia thing and lie, with some lame excuse for why they cannot make it, much as they really, really appreciate the invitation and would have loved to join them? What about the generously-shared dish of delicacies that your Muslim neighbours will be sending around during Ramadan? Take it, bin it and wash your hands? I don’t know. I shouldn’t care, but potentially, your virtue signallers can become the first circle out from ground zero.

Assuming the infidel has no virtue-signalling issues, what is he or she to do as the coronavirus pandemic gets its second boost from Ramadan? I know what I’ll be doing: I’ll be avoiding devout and observant Muslims like the plague.

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  1. Jim says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 2:19 pm

    “the prize for dying in a mosque during Ramadan — you guessed it — is that the deceased goes straight to Heaven.”

    Boy are they in for a rude awakening. God doesn’t accept into heaven those who died worshiping another god. They are going to wake up in the flames of hell, too late realizing what a terrible mistake they made worshiping the “god” of Islam, rather than the real God.

    • Mo says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 12:25 am

      Sadly true. As I always say, Muslims are the first victims of Islam.

    • faraway says

      Apr 18, 2020 at 2:36 am

      I’m sure mohammed himself confessed to the Christian god in his last hours;after all he knew well that allah was a fake and that he had made up most of the holey koran himself

      • Annika Petzall says

        Apr 18, 2020 at 7:05 pm

        It is almost funny to think that Muhammeds so called “statmentes” for anyone can be taken as revilations. Specially some of them. Well, there are many. But the whole joke about it, witch I find it to be, and I should admit gives me some good laughes somethies, they also get stuck in the throat (swedish expression that might not fit in english). They are so crazy that you can´t get it that millions of people around the world take them bloody seriously. And because of just that – it is most absolutely not a joke.

    • Mitch Hunt says

      Apr 18, 2020 at 11:01 am

      I guess they should

    • Madge Hirsch says

      Apr 18, 2020 at 3:26 pm

      That makes your god as bad as theirs. Gven that there isn’t any evidence that either exist or hell or heaven it’s all bollocks anyway.

  2. Ray Jarman says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    Anjuli Pandavar is totally correct only I would add that Islam is a plague in itself. It should be completely avoided by all.

    • Halal Bacon says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 2:23 pm

      well it certainly is more deadly than all the plagues combined

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 9:03 pm

      +1

  3. andrew mckendrick says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 3:06 pm

    ” where people will be packed in shoulder to shoulder” also known as cramming for your finals.

    • mortimer says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 4:21 pm

      It’s deadly, it’s morbid … it’s SUPER-SPREADING.

  4. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 3:17 pm

    Ah, the merry month of Ramadan will soon be upon us. As Julie-Ann Panda-Var notes, “Ramadan 1441 happens to fall smack-bang into the middle of CoVID-19 pandemic 2020.” On top of this, in some parts of the world — such as
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard
    in northern Norway — the entire month of Ramadan will be spent in the daylight hours, as detailed in this table of sunrise and sunset times:
    https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/longyearbyen

    What’s a Norwegian Muslim to do? We have our instructions from Allah: a 24-a-day fast, lasting a whole month. No nighttime bingeing, because there is no nighttime. The omniscient Allah (peace of Muhammad be upon him) knew this when he instituted Ramadan fasting. Maybe that’s why there are so few Muslims in the far-north parts of the world.

    • Rolf Wittwer says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 7:30 pm

      For these intolerant “religious” fanatics the earth is and remains a flat disk that is encircled by the sun – forever.
      No way to teach or change them. They are lost in their dark past.

      • Mitch Hunt says

        Apr 18, 2020 at 11:04 am

        Try and be a little charitable but don’t turn your back…..????

  5. mortimer says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 4:17 pm

    Bravo to Anjuli Pandavar for this superb assessment of the delusional, rigid mindset of Muslims. They ‘know’ Islam is true because no one is challenging their hypnotic state. Islam has all the doors locked and all the windows are nailed shut. A Muslim arms himself from his youth from leaving his mind open to modern ideas.

    I believe Anjuli Pandavar is onto something. Once Muslims congregate during Ramadan, they will become SUPERSPREADERS of the virus.

  6. OTTER says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 8:44 pm

    And in their fog of monotonous and meaningless pieties, their backsides raised at a special enabling angle so supportive of the release of wind, and with their heads bowed, which I wish would enable them to bury themselves deep in the earth where they belong and rid this earth of an ideology monstrous like no other.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    Guide for the Perplexed: Infidels, the Coronavirus and Ramadan
    ………………………..

    Yes–Muslims will be even more aggressive in flouting safeguards–endangering themselves, each other, and many Infidels, as well. This is ignorance in action.

    Are any societies prepared to deal with this? Likely many don’t even understand that it is going to be an increased problem.

    • moqifen says

      Apr 16, 2020 at 10:38 pm

      It’s selfishness as much as ignorance. The selfish part says we’ll do whatever we want and F**k the rest of you. The ignorance part is we wont catch because we are muslim and even if we die of it we’ll go straight to muslim heaven- so double f**k you.

  8. TKF says

    Apr 16, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    You couldn’t fream a more f*cked up religion as Islam if you tried. It is stupid beyond belief.

  9. maemae77 says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 4:24 am

    Why do we put up with this?

    Muslims murdering non-Muslims, while they recite verses from the Qur’an.

    I mean, do non-Muslims have the inability to put 2 and 2 together?

    • James Lincoln says

      Apr 17, 2020 at 7:19 am

      maemae77,

      You brought up an interesting point.

      If non-muslims are, in general, so much “smarter” than muslims IQ wise, etc., they are certainly not using this intelligence effectively.

      In other words, what good is intelligence if it’s not used?

      • mortimer says

        Apr 17, 2020 at 12:23 pm

        Agree with maemae77’s contention that Western people are not connecting jihad with the Islamic primary source texts. Why so?

        The obvious answer is that Western people don’t make that connection is that they are not learning anything about Islam’s primary texts.

        If we could create training films for Western people, most would not watch them. Too busy texting and playing video games.

  10. OLD GUY says

    Apr 17, 2020 at 11:53 am

    Ramadan 1441 may go down in history as the highest number of muslims martyrs ever entering. Allah’s kingdom at one time and receiving their virgins. I predict there will be a major shortage of virgins and toilet paper.

  11. OnePlanet says

    Apr 18, 2020 at 2:48 am

    Idiot! My mosque is closed and has been closed since my state issued a lockdown a month ago. Nobody is complaining. Simply observed Ramadan at home. Simple.

    Stop scaring people with non-sense articles.

    Go after the Islamist not the law abiding citizens that work hard for their community and families.

  12. Anjuli Pandavar says

    Apr 22, 2020 at 9:12 am

    You might have noticed that the article is not actually about *your* mosque. It’s about what Muslims do in Ramadan that, combined with the CoVID-19 pandemic, the very recent history and current behaviour of Muslims in *all* predominantly Muslim countries and a few others besides, adding up to a more serious health threat than all of them together minus Ramadan behavior. So you see, I’m not scaring anyone. I’m pointing out three scary realities coming together that amounts to something seriously scary.

    So your mosque has been closed for a month. No congratulations for that. It’s called obeying the law, which we are all expected to do. If you want to write about mosques that obey the law, feel free. My doing that is not really going to serve my purpose, which is to destroy Islam, for which the truth is all I need. So apart from being an idiot for not knowing that your mosque has been closed for a month, I wonder whether you might have anything to say about the mosques I’ve been writing about, you know, the open ones, or the ones that might now be closed but will be opened during Ramadan? By that I mean all over the ummah, and not just your mosque.

    By the way:

    Any explanation for why so many Muslims insist on keeping their mosques open against the law? (I don’t think they call themselves ‘Islamists’. They are people who do as Muhammad did and as the Qur’an commands, and such people Muhammad referred to as ‘Muslims’, not ‘Islamists’).

    What’s your and your law-abiding community’s stance on shari’a?

    Do you and your fellow law-abiding Muslims believe, “Islam is far superior to man-made systems of government”?

    If any mosques should break the law by, say, opening every night for taraweeh, what should the government’s response be?

    • Anjuli Pandavar says

      Apr 22, 2020 at 5:34 pm

      This was meant as a response to OnePlanet.

  13. Kalim Alaka says

    Apr 23, 2020 at 10:36 am

    You expect different….????

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