The "Bizarre" Ramadhan
This ramadhan might be never the same as ramadhan that we have passed before, or perhaps with ramadhan that we will face in the following year. Sure, the differences are not only about change of the year period in almanac, or the length of fasting time that we will have in a day. However, these are caused by the many kinds of events happened in this holy month. Some of them can be classified as the predicted occurrence, while the others are not. For those predicted or already known before are such as the world cup 2014 held in Brazil and the biggest national event in Indonesia, the presidential election, held on Wednesday, 09 July 2014. On the other hand, those which are not envisaged before are such as the unresolved conflict between Palestine and the “damned” Israel as well as the latest crash of Malaysia Airlines in Ukraine. I strongly argue that, those kinds of things are likely to influence the value of this jolly fasting month. Firstly, I would like to explain how the world ...