Pres Hussein Obama hosts annual Ramadan dinner at White House.

Pres Hussein Obama hosts annual Ramadan dinner at White House.(CNS).

President Barack Obama said Monday that Americans stand united in rejecting the targeting of any religious or ethnic group as he marked Islam's holy month of Ramadan.

Obama opened the White House to Muslim Americans for a traditional iftar dinner, which follows daily fasting from dawn to sunset. Ramadan ends with the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

"We affirm that whatever our faith, we're all one family," Obama said at the East Room dinner attended by about 40 members of the diplomatic community and a few members of Congress.

During his remarks, the President thanked the Muslim community for the contributions they’ve made to create opportunities for those who lack access. No matter our faith, race or gender, we are equals in humanity.

Tonight we reaffirm a simple truth. Fundamental to the character of our country is our freedom of religion -- the right to practice our faith as we choose, to change our faith if we choose, or to practice no faith at all and to do all this free from fear of. All of us are deserving of an equal opportunity to thrive -- no matter who we are, what we look like, what we believe, or how we pray. And all of us have an obligation to do our part -- to help others overcome barriers, to reverse the injustice of inequality and to help more of our fellow citizens share in the promise of America.

In Islam, there is a hadith that says God helps the servant as long as the servant helps his brother*. In other words, we’re summoned to serve and lift up one another, and that’s the lesson of several of our guests here tonight.

Actually the Hadith says:

The Rewards of Good Deeds

Hadrat 'AbdAllah ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that Prophet Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) related this Saying from his Lord:

Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) has written down the good deeds and the bad ones. Then He explained it (by saying that) he who has intended a good deed and has not done it, Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) writes it down with Himself as a full good deed; but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) writes it down with Himself as from ten good deeds to seven hundred times, or many times over. But if he has intended a bad deed and has not done it, Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) writes it down with Himself as a full good deed, but if he has intended it and has done it, Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) writes it down as one bad deed. (Bukhari and Muslim)

On the authority of Hadrat Abu Huraira (may Allah be pleased with him) who reported that Prophet Muhammad (may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him) said: Whosoever removes a worldly grief from a believer, Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) will remove from him one of the griefs of the Day of Judgement. Whosoever alleviates (the lot of) a needy person, Allah will alleviate (his lot) in this world and the next. *Whosoever shields a Muslim, Allah will shield him in this world and the next. Allah will aid a servant (of His) so long as the servant aids his brother. Whosoever follows a path to seek knowledge therein, Allah will make easy for him a path to Paradise. No people gather together in one of the houses of Allah, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it among themselves, without tranquility descending upon them, mercy enveloping them, the angles surrounding them, and Allah (The Glorified and the Exalted) making mention of them amongst those who are with Him. Whosoever is slowed down by his actions will not be hastened forward by his lineage. (Muslim).

Hmmmm.......I'm sure all present knew the Hadith in it's full sense.Read the full story here.

Jefferson did NOT host an Iftar dinner at the White House.

Jefferson did NOT host an Iftar dinner at the White House.(TCJR).By Bryan Fischer at Renew America.

Barack Obama and the Ministers of Propaganda in the meanstream media repeat ad nauseum the utterly unfounded and spectacularly erroneous myth that Thomas Jefferson hosted the first Iftar dinner at the White House.
He most certainly did not.
In fact, the very first Iftar dinner at the White House was held by George W. Bush a mere month after Muslims, inspired by the commands of Allah through his prophet as preserved in the most holy Koran, obliterated 2,973 innocent Americans on 9/11. President Bush gamely verbalized the pathetic nostrum that Islam is a “religion of peace,” but all that meant is that Muslims were able to play him for a chump.

Now Jefferson did host a temporary Muslim envoy for dinner at the White House in 1805, and it happened to be during Ramadan. 

The envoy, who celebrated his Muslim-hood by requesting prostitutes as soon as he set foot on American soil, said he could not come at the scheduled time of dinner, 3:30 p.m., because of Ramadan, but could come after sundown. Not to mention that he would probably be occupied with his infidel call girl until then anyway.
Jefferson courteously agreed. But he didn’t change the menu to make the dinner halal or Muslim-friendly or anything of the sort.
In fact, Jefferson was rather aggravated with this envoy and Muslims in general at this time. The whole reason this envoy was even in Washington, D.C. was because Muslim pirates had been raiding American ships for decades, plundering their cargo and selling captured sailors as slaves. Muslims overall sold more people into slavery — one million — than were involved in the entire history of the slave trade with the West.
Jefferson as president finally had had enough of this foolishness and the craven submission of the U.S. to Muslims thugs by paying them tribute to leave our ships alone. He decided to send the Marines into Tripoli, and in they went, inspiring the phrase in the Marine hymn, “to the shores of Tripoli.”

Marines to this day are called Leathernecks because they wrapped thick strips of leather around their necks before the attack because they knew that the holy prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, commanded his loyal followers to slice the heads off every infidel they could find.

Fatuously misguided leftists, including President Obama, mindlessly celebrate the fact that Jefferson owned a copy of the Koran. Our first Muslim congressman, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, even used Jefferson’s Koran as a part of his swearing-in ritual when he took the oath of office.
But Jefferson purchased a copy of the Koran not to celebrate the cultural richness of Islam but to figure out why Muslims were determined, against all principles of humanity in general and Christianity in particular, to rape and pillage innocent Christians who had done them no harm whatsoever.
(As a footnote, it’s worth nothing that Jefferson’s copy is not a “holy” Koran, because it is translated into English. Only Korans in the original, Allah-breathed Arabic are considered holy.)
Jefferson himself, along with John Adams, had gone to London in 1786 to have a sitdown with the Muslim ambassador who represented the Barbary pirates of Tripoli. They asked him a simple and direct question: by what right do you extort money from us and enslave us?
Jefferson reported the ambassador’s response to Congress: “[That right] was founded upon the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
Jefferson bought a copy of the Koran because he found it hard to believe that any religion could be as dark, dangerous, evil and wicked as this. He had to check it out for himself.
Lo and behold, he read, in his own copy of the Koran, the command of Allah through his holy prophet, peace be upon him: ” Slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them” (Sura 9:5).
Jefferson, as president, finally got to the place where he had had it up to here with paying extortion money to these pirates and murderers, and ordered a blockade of Tripoli. The USS Constitution captured a number of Muslim vessels who were trying to run the blockade, and Jefferson’s dinner guest had been sent by the Bey of Tripoli in an effort to get his ships back.
So the purpose of the dinner was not for Jefferson to celebrate the multi-cultural marvels of this benighted religion, but to inform this ambassador that Americans were done being played for saps, and from now on were going to play hard cheese with Muslim pirates, murderers, enslavers, and rapists whether they were inspired by their Holy Koran or no.
Bottom line: prior to 2001, the only White House tradition when it came to Iftar dinners was not to have them. May the day come when that tradition is resumed.
Bryan Fischer is the host of the daily ‘Focal Point’ radio talk program on AFR
Talk, a division of the American Family Association. ‘Focal Point’ airs live
from 1-3 pm Central Time, and is also simulcast on the AFA Channel, which can be
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Turkey - İncirlik Air Base officials have warned American soldiers to be "respectful and informed" during Ramadan.

Turkey - İncirlik Air Base officials have warned American soldiers to be "respectful and informed" during Ramadan.(HD).İncirlik Air Base officials have warned American soldiers to be careful during the month of Ramadan, listing a series of important points to keep in consideration, Anatolia news agency reported. The statement released called for the soldiers to be "respectful and informed" while telling them that from July 20 until Aug. 18, Turks "will not be eating or drinking during the day." Gardeners during Ramadan will not be accepting any food or water even if they are offered, the statement said, and soldiers should not take the rejections personally. Soldiers were also told not to eat or drink in public to "respect the Muslim faith," the statement read, while warning soldiers to be patient with drivers who may "be driving aggressively right before iftar." The statement also sought to inform soldiers by giving background information on Ramadan, stating that it will be followed by a three-day Ramadan bayram holiday. İncirlik is a U.S. Air Force base that is also used by Turkish Air Force in the southern province of Adana.Hmmmm...........Obama: "“We will hold sacred the beliefs held sacred by others.”Read the full story here. 

From 'MuslimConverts':



The purpose of fasting is not to just get hungry and thirsty but it is to become pious.

Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "Whoever does not give up false speech and false actions and ignorance, Allah has no need of his giving up his food and drink." Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6057.

He also (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: "A fasting person may get nothing from his fast except hunger and the one who prays at night may get nothing from his qiyaam but a sleepless night." Narrated by Ibn Maajah, 1690; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Ibn Maajah.

Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Fasting is not just (abstention) from food and drink, rather fasting is (abstention) from idle and obscene talk.” Narrated by al-Haakim and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’ (5376).

So one should stay away from Un-Islamic things such as:

• Getting angry
• Using Bad language
• Back biting and gossip
• Arguing and fighting with Muslims.
• Promoting Un-Islamic ideologies such as democracy and socialism. ??????
• Being rude and impolite
• Looking, touching , flirting with non-mehrems of the opposite sex.
• Lying and cheating
• Engaging in riba (interest, usury)
• Women wearing improper dress.
• Men shaving beards and having cloths below ankles
• Allying with the enemies of Islam against the Muslims
• Anything that is Haram