Cleric breaks Ramadan fast too early...

[Le Jacquelope]

This made me laugh out loud...

Fasting Again After a False Call

STANBUL (Reuters) - A Muslim cleric has mistakenly forced an extra day of fasting for the Ramadan holy month on people in a Turkish town by reading the call to prayer five minutes early, officials say.

Veysel Mat, the imam in the Black Sea town of Akcakoca, apparently miscalculated the time of sundown on Thursday and read the prayer early, causing people to break fast five minutes too soon. He read it again after realizing his error.

But those who accidentally broke the fast must now refrain from eating for one more day at the end of Ramadan, provincial mufti Kemal Turksoy told Reuters on Friday.

"Several people have complained and an investigation has been launched," Turksoy said. "The imam has been reprimanded."

Islam requires Muslims to fast from sunrise to sundown for a month each year.

"I was one of the people who had just sat down for the evening meal when we heard the call to prayer again five minutes later. It was very distressing," local administrator Ali Uslanmaz said.

Turksoy said it was not clear how many people had been affected by the false call. There are 10 mosques in Akcakoca, a town of 25,000 people, and they are linked by a central broadcasting system.

 

[killallhippies]

he didn't do the string test?

 

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he didn't do the string test?

that's right,

http://www.sharonsloane.com/images/9545b.jpg

If you can't see the strings anymore, it's dark enough...