A quote from Ansamed, 12 September 2008 Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Islam, has become a veritable business in France, the western country which hosts the largest number of Muslims, some 5 million, and where the consumption of halal food increases by 15% annually. Not only that, now Ramadan is a part and parcel of the Republican calendar and of the politicians' agenda: Iftar, the meal which at sunset breaks the fast, has become a local consecrated ritual for cities like Lille, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Roubaix. [...] The USA also understood that and on September 15 they will organize an Iftar at their Paris embassy. Europeans have greeted the news of Sarah Palin’s nomination for Vice President of the United States with a predictable mixture of anger, frustration, resentment and resignation. After more than a year of uncritically praising Barack Obama as a supernatural figure destined by fate to solve all of the world’s problems, European elites are suddenly coming to terms with the unwelcome possibility that the junior senator from Illinois might just be another human being after all.US Embassy Joins the Ramadan Follies
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Monday, 15 September 2008
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