THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
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RAMADAN (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
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Members of the Lawrence Islamic Society attend the Friday afternoon prayer during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan
Traditionally at sunset Muslims gather with friends and family and partake in a shared meal usually containing some sort of soup, nuts, dates and tea, depending on the geographical location. Dessert is a main part of the meal, and Al Zaiti said this is what he stocks up on in his store.
"Mostly people are shopping for a large group, so they buy a lot at once, especially desserts," he said.
"We do this for God," he said "Just for God, not any other people."
While medical studies reported by The Associated Press have shown that fasting can be beneficial to health, it is also dangerous to overeat or overload the stomach with heavy foods, hence the light fare of sweets, fruits and soups.
AlBuhayri said the breaking of the fast at sundown was the most enjoyable tradition of the month.
"After the sun goes down all of your friends get together and you eat a great meal, with a lot of sweets afterwards to celebrate," she said. "After the meal at night we all spend time together and talk about the Qur'an and Mohammed and pray and spend time talking about stories and faith."
Health concerns are not supposed to interfere with the month. There are exceptions to the tradition of fasting for people who are too ill or unable to abstain from food and water. Pregnant women, menstru-
ating women, the sick and elderly are encouraged not to endanger their health but to make up days they missed later in the year.
But fasting isn't the only emphasized practice of Ramadan.
He said that giving to the poor was to satisfy God, and to help attain self-purification.
Erhan Delen, Mardin, Turkey, graduate student and president of KU's Intercultural and Interfaith Dialogue Association, said focusing
on the poor was especially important during Ramadan.
"When we are fasting we are understanding the poor people better," he said. "Although we have food and water we cannot drink them so we can understand the poor people's lives."
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Fasting is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, which are the backbone of
the religion. Almsgiving to the poor is another pillar.
"He's a very personable guy, who obviously enjoys being around students and constituents", McGonigle said. "He had about as much fun here as we had having him."
MOORE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
During lunch, McGonigle said that Moore spoke on issues at the University and issues that were going on within the elections and Washington.
Mason Heilman, Lawrence junior and Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, said that Moore also spoke about daily life at lunch.
"It was a great way for us to get to know the person representing us in Washington," Heilman said.
Andrew Toth, Colby sophomore and KU Young Democrats president, said Moore was great with the students and was good at answering one-on-one impromptu questions from the students.
"This is great for students who want to know what government officials know about," Toth said.
Moore wasn't all business on Friday, and occasionally joked with the student audience.
"What's that funny looking
bird?" the 62-year-old congressman asked students, pointing to a Jayhawk. He soon began laughing.
After Moore met with KU Young Democrats on Wescoe Beach, he attended a rally at the Kansas Union, where Students for Moore and members of KU Young Democrats met him to ask questions.
Students asked an array of questions, with topics ranging from global warming and the situation in Iraq to lowering costs of education.
POLITICS
"What we're doing is taking our national charge card and charging everything to it that we want," Moore said to students. "And you know what? We're making you guuvs pay for it."
Moore will be running against Nick Jordan of Shawnee in the upcoming election.
McCain distances himself from GOP
KU Young Democrats will be on Wescoe Beach this week registering students to vote and providing information on the upcoming elections. The group will move to the Kansas Union if it rains.
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Edited by Rachel Burchfield
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Barack Obama isn't John McCain's only opponent. Sometimes McCain sounds like he's running almost as hard against President Bush and the Republican Party as he is against Obama, his Democratic rival for the White House.
The GOP is guilty of indulging in a spending spree of taxpayers' money, McCain laments. They haven't solved huge problems such as the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, passing on huge IOUs and perplexing issues to future generations instead of fixing them as they had promised. He doesn't name Bush but the implication is clear: It happened on his watch and he signed bills that made the deficit soar.
"We began to value power over principle," McCain said in Colorado Springs, Colo. Some lawmakers turned corrupt and wound up in jail, he told a rally in Albuquerque, N.M.
"Change is coming, change is coming," McCain promised, projecting an image of independence and political populism.
One of his challenges is to separate himself from the unpopular incumbent in the White House and fight against Obama's charge that a McCain presidency would amount to a third term for Bush.
"On the core issues, the economy and the war, he has been joined to Bush at the hip," said Democratic pollster Mark Mellman. "On the other hand, Bush is a lead weight dragging him down. He has to rely on rhetoric to separate himself but he can't separate himself on policies important to the American
President Bush and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) walk down the West Wing Colonnade of the White House in Washington, prior to speaking to reporters in the Rose Garden where the president endorsed McCain. Barack Obama likes to say, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term." Bush's "third term" has become a favorite attack line for Democrats, one repeated almost daily by the candidate and his surrogates. They argue that McCain favors failed Bush administration economic policies and would keep U.S. troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future.
people."
Eager to keep control of the White House, Republicans are keeping their mouths shut about McCain's barbs.
McCain's criticism rankles White House officials who are eager to build up Bush's legacy. They are quick to strike hard at anything they perceive as criticism from almost any quarter, particularly the media. But Bush aides are giving McCain a free pass even as they quietly grumble about how pointed his attacks have become.
There's no free pass from Obama's campaign.
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"Voting with George Bush 90 percent of the time isn't being a maverick, it's being the president's sidekick," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton. "The idea that John McCain represents change in Washington is as laughable as his claim that he'll take on the special interests when some of the biggest corporate lobbyists in America are running his campaign."
Railing against Washington's political establishment is an old tradition in presidential campaigns, but McCain overlooks the fact that he is an elder in the club. He is Arizona's senior senator, having served 22 years after four years in the House.
He doesn't talk about how long he's been in Washington, focusing instead on the fact that he has been at odds with many Republicans on a range of issues such as campaign finance reform, imposing limits on harsh treatment of terrorist suspects, tax cuts, which he opposed before he supported them, and federally financed embryonic stem cell research.
"Obviously, I was very unpopular in some parts of my own party, whether it be on the issue of climate change or against [former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld's strategy and the president's strategy in Iraq, or whether it be on campaign finance reform or a number of other issues that I fought against the 'special interests,'" McCain said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CBS "Face the Nation."
The clear message is that there are no sacred cows. Bush and
largest group of older Americans.
Campaigning later, McCain has not offered specific solutions, saying instead he will reach out to Democrats for answers. He said he would have more than one Democrat in his Cabinet.
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Congress are very unpopular, so they're an easy target.
"I don't work for a party. I don't work for a special interest. I don't work for myself. I work for you," McCain said in a televised address Saturday to the AARP, the nation's
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