Friday, November 16, 2007

sneeze if you're Muslim

My six-year-old daughter came home last week with stuff her Islamic teacher wants her to memorize. This includes:

1) the Arabic phrase to say when you sneeze
2) the phrase to say when you witness a sneeze
3) the phrase to answer the sneeze-witnesser if you are the sneezer
4) which foot steps into the bathroom first
5) the phrase to say when one enters the bathroom
6) which foot gets to leave the bathroom first
7) the phrase you should say when leaving the bathroom
8) the thirteen-step ritual for washing (wudu) before praying

It's a good subject for a blog. But I'm so damn exhausted by the whole thing that I can't even find the will to make jokes about it.

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