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- Barack Hussein Obama Wants The End Of Ramadan To Become A Public Holiday
Barack Obama - Homo For Allah WILL AT THE OTHER NEWS From Yahoo France (via Google Translate): The President of the United States wished, Thursday, July 16, a "Happy Eid" to all Muslims. A kind word in anticipation of the feast of Eid al-Fitr which...
- How We Give Up
Maybe, if I pretend I am dead, the Muslims will leave me alone UK Teachers: We’re Scared to Tackle Extremism in Case We’re Called ‘Islamophobes’From July this year, British teachers will have a legal requirement to report students they believe...
- Muslim Brotherhood-cair Demands Maryland Schools Close For Muslim Holidays
We Muslims Are Restless ... For Equal Holiday Rights From Atlas Shrugs: From the Gazette, September 18, 2013 (thanks to J. Christian Adams)Group asks staff, students to stay home, celebrate Eid al-Adha on Oct. 15 A coalition of local Muslims...
- White House Honored Radical Islamist As “champion Of Change”
From the Investigative Project on Terrorism: An Islamist activist honored by the White House last December as a “Champion of Change” called Zionism “racism” this week and said “nothing is creepier” than the belief in a Jewish homeland. Linda...
- A Bit Of Anti-dhimmitude
A tad of good news in a sea of gloom. Via this posting at Creeping Sharia:Region 16 School District: No To Muslim Holidays PROSPECT - A Connecticut school district representing Prospect and Beacon Falls won't adopt a proposal to close schools on two...
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NYC Public Schools Take Day Off For Islamic Holiday Eid
NYC Mayor De Blasio In His Purple Shirt and Rainbow Flag
Step by step, my friends:
New York marks a milestone in the fight for equality Thursday (Sep 24) when 1.1 million children in America’s largest school district will take the day off to mark Eid al-Adha.
It is a small but hard-won victory at a time when American Muslims complain of growing Islamophobia and worsening anti-Muslim rhetoric following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
For the first time, more than 1,800 public schools in New York will close for the Muslim feast of sacrifice, a day after also closing for Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the new policy in March, announcing that New York public schools would get two days off for Eid al-Fitr, which falls during the summer, and Eid al-Adha, in addition to major Christian and Jewish holidays.
Since then, city hall has added a further day off – February 8, 2016 – for Lunar New Year, celebrated by Asian-Americans.
“It is a huge victory to actually see the day come,” says Linda Sarsour, a member of the Coalition for Muslim School Holidays and a New York activist with three children.
“As an imam as well as a parent I am very happy,” agreed Imam Shamsi Ali, director of the Jamaica Muslim Center in Queens. “I’m sure this kind of policy from the government side will push Muslims further to feel a sense of belonging,” he said.
- Barack Hussein Obama Wants The End Of Ramadan To Become A Public Holiday
Barack Obama - Homo For Allah WILL AT THE OTHER NEWS From Yahoo France (via Google Translate): The President of the United States wished, Thursday, July 16, a "Happy Eid" to all Muslims. A kind word in anticipation of the feast of Eid al-Fitr which...
- How We Give Up
Maybe, if I pretend I am dead, the Muslims will leave me alone UK Teachers: We’re Scared to Tackle Extremism in Case We’re Called ‘Islamophobes’From July this year, British teachers will have a legal requirement to report students they believe...
- Muslim Brotherhood-cair Demands Maryland Schools Close For Muslim Holidays
We Muslims Are Restless ... For Equal Holiday Rights From Atlas Shrugs: From the Gazette, September 18, 2013 (thanks to J. Christian Adams)Group asks staff, students to stay home, celebrate Eid al-Adha on Oct. 15 A coalition of local Muslims...
- White House Honored Radical Islamist As “champion Of Change”
From the Investigative Project on Terrorism: An Islamist activist honored by the White House last December as a “Champion of Change” called Zionism “racism” this week and said “nothing is creepier” than the belief in a Jewish homeland. Linda...
- A Bit Of Anti-dhimmitude
A tad of good news in a sea of gloom. Via this posting at Creeping Sharia:Region 16 School District: No To Muslim Holidays PROSPECT - A Connecticut school district representing Prospect and Beacon Falls won't adopt a proposal to close schools on two...