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Sep 28 2015 11:54am
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/1st-time-york-city-schools-close-muslim-holiday-34012810

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New York City public schools are closed to observe the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (eed ahl-AHD'-hah).

Thursday was the first time the schools serving 1.1 million pupils closed for a Muslim holiday. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this year that the city's public schools would observe the two Muslim holy days of Eid al-Fitr (eed ahl-FIH'-tur) and Eid al-Adha.

Eid al-Adha is known as the Feast of the Sacrifice. It commemorates the willingness of Ibrahim — Abraham to Christians and Jews — to sacrifice his son.


so it looks like some nyc schools have begun recognizing muslim holy days

personally i like a few more holidays so 2 more days is nice regardless of the religion in question

curious where everyone stands on this ^_^ ?
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Sep 28 2015 12:02pm
Quote (duffman316 @ 28 Sep 2015 17:54)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/1st-time-york-city-schools-close-muslim-holiday-34012810



so it looks like some nyc schools have begun recognizing muslim holy days

personally i like a few more holidays so 2 more days is nice regardless of the religion in question

curious where everyone stands on this ^_^ ?


Holidays are nice... The state sanctioned celebration of a cult of blood sacrifice and child murder is not. But then they've been doing it for ages anyway so it's only fair they do it for every human sacrifice based cult out there.
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Sep 28 2015 12:08pm
reading your article it seems those were closing for kippur since a while. So yeah seems fair to also close it for aïd too then.

or doing like in france; none...

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Sep 28 2015 12:24pm
holy fuck, there's no excuse for this shit
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Sep 28 2015 12:37pm
I don't like it. They are shoving out Christianity out've schools, which I have no real problem with as imo religion is a personal thing, but to accept other religion's customs and culture is a huge chunk of the pie named hypocrisy....
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Sep 28 2015 12:39pm
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I don't like it. They are shoving out Christianity out've schools, which I have no real problem with as imo religion is a personal thing, but to accept other religion's customs and culture is a huge chunk of the pie named hypocrisy....


march break and winter break are pc substitute names for christmas and easter
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Sep 28 2015 12:42pm
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march break and winter break are pc substitute names for christmas and easter


yeah they are, but that is because they are just culturally ingrained breaks that there is no reason to get rid of, and the significance lies with the name of the break, as do a lot of things that hold philosophical or religious sacrement, otherwise it isn't viewed in a spiritual light.....


i just feel like they are over-appeasing steps into culture assimliation, and its a huge load of hypocrisy, otherwise i woudln't care

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Sep 28 2015 12:42pm
Quote (ChrisKz @ Sep 28 2015 01:37pm)
I don't like it. They are shoving out Christianity out've schools, which I have no real problem with as imo religion is a personal thing, but to accept other religion's customs and culture is a huge chunk of the pie named hypocrisy....



Christianity is already widely accepted in public school system and no public school in the country has sessions going on during Christmas. Fair enough since it's the nations majority spiritual belief system, however to suggest the public realm is excluding Christianity for Islam is absurd.

I'm personally against this. There is no need for more holidays based on personal supernatural views, from any religion. When is Scientology's et al religious days going to require days off from public schools.



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Sep 28 2015 12:43pm
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Christianity is already widely accepted in public school system and no public school in the country has sessions going on during Christmas. Fair enough since it's the nations majority spiritual belief system, however to suggest the public realm is excluding Christianity for Islam is absurd.

I'm personally against this. There is no need for more holidays based on personal supernatural views, from any religion. When is Scientology's et al religious days going to require days off from public schools.


The only reason why there are breaks during those times is for above reasons, and for the fact that a large part of our country takes part in holidays at that period of time, whether it be in a spiritual sense or simply out of cultural habit.
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Sep 28 2015 12:53pm
Quote (ChrisKz @ Sep 28 2015 01:42pm)
yeah they are, but that is because they are just culturally ingrained breaks that there is no reason to get rid of, and the significance lies with the name of the break, as do a lot of things that hold philosophical or religious sacrement, otherwise it isn't viewed in a spiritual light.....


i just feel like they are over-appeasing steps into culture assimliation, and its a huge load of hypocrisy, otherwise i woudln't care


chris, the hypocrisy would be in permitting one set of holidays which have admittedly religious connotations because you identify with them, while denying another set of religious holidays on the grounds that you do not personally identify with them

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