Islamists have just tricked the Hawaii Legislature into celebrating Islam
on September 11.
Hawaii has no Christianity Day, no Judaism Day, and no
Buddhism Day--but Hawaii's Democrat Legislators—with the
loud public support of Ron
Paul connected Rep Kym Pine
(R-Ewa)—passed a resolution to create Islam Day.
By a 22-3 vote the Hawaii Senate May 7 approved House Concurrent
Resolution 100 which designates September 24, 2009 as Islam Day. The State
House had quietly approved the measure without dissent March 17.
Introduced
March 4 as HCR100 by
Reps Faye
Hanohano (D-Puna), Lyla Berg
(D-Hawai`i Ka`i), and Della Au
Belatti (D-Makiki) HCR100 proposed Islam Day to be “November 21, 2009, marks
the anniversary of the founding of Islam….” But that was soon amended to HCR100HD1
which intones, “the Prophet Mohammad left his house to migrate to Madinah and
reached Quba in the vicinity of Madinah on the 12th day of Rabi ul-Awwal
according to the lunar calendar, or September 24th according to the Gregorian
calendar, thereby marking the birth of Islam….” (Emphasis added)
This is false. September
24th is the date of Mohammad’s arrival in Medina according to the old Julian calendar -- which
is 13 days behind the modern Gregorian calendar. The fact that “Gregorian” is
mentioned in the resolution implies that somebody was considering the two
calendars.
Had the Hawaii legislature intended to mark the Julian date September
24 they would have picked the Gregorian date October 7, 2009 for Islam Day. Had
they wished to mark the date celebrated each year by Muslims, that would have
been the “12th day of Rabi ul-Awwal” -- March 9, 2009.
But instead they picked the modern Gregorian date September 24, 2009.
This day corresponds to no holiday in the Islamic calendar. But on the
Julian calendar it is September 11, 2009.