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@seymoure Lots of people tell themselves it's about "understanding the poor" or some bullshit but the imams I've spoken to have rejected that as the primary motivation for fasting.

@feadees LOL this is rich. Someone challenges your beliefs so you insist they are lying. I'm in the Gulf. I prefer not to have to make another account and like to be semi anonymous. We have been here 5 years and work with kids. Maybe you weren't close with many Omanis? I literally just...

@feadees Holy crap you are so ignorant about how your religion is practiced round the world. I am most definitely not making stuff up. It's horrifying what parents do here in the name of obedience to god. Most kids are fasting all day by the time they are 10 here. Some alternate days or go...

@feadees I reserve the right to judge when uninvolved parents send their 5 year olds (I mean, the driver takes them not the parents) to school without food and water in 100 degree heat, who didn't go to bed until midnight. They don't know why they are fasting and spend the day crying or half...

@judyc I don't disagree with your method. I'm not sure I would have reacted the same but I see where you are coming from and I hope she will learn something worthwhile. I think I'm jaded because I live in the Middle East under Sharia law, so my initial reaction to Americans falling all over...