Posted on 07/24/2013 9:49:31 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
My Nanny's Ramadan Fast
by Christie Tate
Ramadan, the holy month for Muslims, is under way, which means my nanny will fast from dawn to sunset every day. And that fasting means no food or water during the hours she will be watching my children. This is our third Ramadan as her employers and just like the previous two years, I feel a pit of fear in my stomach, worrying about her health and that of my children as she cares for them while the temperatures soar.
I know how this will go. For the remainder of the holy month, I will keep my phone closer than normal when I am at work. I will worry that she will pass out from dehydration while leading my 2- and 3-year-old children across the street. I will think about how light-headed and unable to focus I become when I go hours without eating or drinking water in the sunshine. Then I start picturing specific scenarios where she doesnt watch them closely enough at the pool. Or maybe shell space out while my daughter rides her bike with her wobbly legs and her inexpert command of the brakes.
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Your kids may be in danger, but at least you feel good about yourself.
Cannot imagine this level of irrationalizing.
As if I give a smelly Obama about anything concerning this woman’s so-called “problem”.
No freaking way!
SHE SHOULD BE MORE WORRIED ABOUT THE NANNY PROSELYTIZING THEM......
This.
if this woman trusts this nanny with her two small children otherwise, and apparently she does since she's had her as a nanny for yrs, then what is her big beef?...just another "look at me" and my "big" problems lib...
I’d worry less about her fast and more about the possibility of her killing the little infidels with a kitchen knife.
Religion aside - going without food or drink (as long as you are in good health)during the day is not that much of a big deal - as long as you’re not exertinh yourself too much.
And Islam allows people in critical jobs to eat and drink if they have to during the day - which Muslims will never bring up to infidels.
“Your kids may be in danger, but at least you feel good about yourself”.
BINGO! Imagine how “progressive” they feel when they talk about their MUSLIM nanny at work and at cocktail parties. What morons...
He’s OK with putting his kids in a dangerous situation?
Nice parent...
This woman is some kinda nut.
Does the Muslim woman wear a Burka? How Muslim is she ? the Hijab or any of that other crap? Does she pray 5 times a day?’’Find yourself a new Nanny.
And eat like a pig after sunset.
At the very least, Christie, hide the box cutters.
The bimbo mom didn't say she was Arabic...only Muslim. Maybe the nanny is from Chechnya.
a person who doesn’t like the actual burden of having to choose something and live with it in peace, if a watchful peace, i fear. so instead she just writes an open ended, worried screed. confess it, this sort of worry-warrior gets under our skin sometimes doesn’t it, and it speaks to our weakness too that it does.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
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