Ramadan Message from President Obama

How refreshing and nice to hear the US President really understand what one of Islam important rituals. This is a wonderful message from President Obama on Ramadan even though he does put in a bit of political message in it. :)

As for the muslims in the Bay Area, this is the first time since I've been here that all of us are starting Ramadan on the same day, this Sat, Aug 22, 09. There's 2 schools of thought here, one uses the calendar and the other uses the traditional method of actually looking for the new moon (which signifies the start of the month). I follow the group that uses the calculation method which is backed by ISNA (Islamic Society of North America). Also due to the two groups, we sometimes have 2 different days of Eid...so two prayer days. I'm hoping that we're going to have the same day for Eid too.

Anyway, here's the video.