Would you send a letter to a soldier using THIS stamp?

US Post Office ^ | 5/17/3 | Varmint Al

[F.J. Mitchell]

I wouldn't use that stamp, if it was free.

[aruanan]

It is quite possible that our own USPS is committing TREASON.

Please don't debase the currency of thought with such as the above.

[Criminal Number 18F]

"Eid" just means "feast," but when it's by itself, it means "Eid al-Fitr," the feast that ends Ramadan.

Ramadan is a month of fasting that is one of the five Pillars of Islam. So there is a rough parallel to Christian Lent and post-Lenten celebrations, such as Mardi Gras.

Last year Eid was in early December; this year it will come in late November (it is based on the whacky Muslim calendar).

For Eid, people will: gather in humongous groups and pray shortly after sunrise (the EId prayers are a particular liturgy), pay tithes for the poor, put on new clothes, have a big feast and go visiting relatives. In lots of Muslim countries it takes on the appearance and flavour of a block party.

I suppose if we are going to have stamps for Jewish holidays we have to let the Muslims have them too (although we would be singing a different tune, called "convert or die", if the Muslims were in charge).

Can the Aleister Crowley followers be next?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[aruanan]

"Eid" is not a sect, it is the Arabic word for holiday.

Even funnier. I think they're beautiful stamps. Arabic calligraphy is one of the most beautiful calligraphies of any language. The problem is, on the one hand, total lack of discrimination (liberals) or, on the other, completely absurd distinctions made on the basis of a language. Some very, very old New Testament texts are in Arabic. Do hyper-reactive people imagine in that case that the form is tainting the content? There needs to be a whole lot more thinking and a lot less mindless reacting going on.

[henderson field]

Thinking of the Crusades reminds me of the seal of the city of Milan, Italy. It commemorates the Crusades and the Christian triumph. On the left side of the circle is a red Christian cross. On the right side of the circle is a serpent eating a Muslim.

[Jay D. Dyson]

My feelings on this matter are summed up in my current tagline.

I am loathe to be tolerant of the intolerant. Anyone with a lick of sense can appreciate why.

-Jay

[cerberus]

like the devout muslim who took it upon himself to murder his superiors in kuwait?

Get real Contessa.

Do we condemn all white protestants because of Tim McVeigh or all U.S. Marines because a few become criminals and commit crimes against society.

As conservatives, we owe it to ourselves to start using our brains instead of acting like a bunch of knee-jerk idiots and thereby providing ammo to our rat adversaries.

Frankly, I am damn sick of some of this simple mindedness and, fortunately, so are most conservatives these days.

[CaptIsaacDavis]

Now THAT would be an interesting stamp! In fact, Portugal put out a bunch like that back in the 1960s and 1970s, before the communist coup in '75. I've found some interesting stamps commemorating victories of Western men/countries over Islamic invaders from Spain, Portugal, Greece, Malta, and Croatia, but none from Italy curiously.

[visualops]

(Sorry for the delay responding)

My Dad's father died when he was 14, so he and his (older) brother were the male heads of the family. When his brother was killed, my Dad made the decision for him to be buried there. According to my mother, he felt it would be easier on his mother that way. I don't understand the logic myself. My family is odd :)
My Dad served in the Navy, but doesn't talk about Korea, or WWII for that matter. All he ever said was that the ship he was on (a destroyer) set a speed record crossing the Pacific. My mother, on the other hand, will tell you all sorts of WWII stories (she was in Egypt during the war), and her family is from Alsace-Lorraine.

[HIDEK6]

has anybody seen Thurgood around and about recently?

He's dead, Jim.

[jde1953]

"Question: Would you send a letter to a soldier using THIS stamp?

Answer: No.

In fact, if the Post Office tried to foist one of these things off on me, I would refuse it. The United States has no business touting Muslim feasts"

I recall similar objections from some christian groups when the United States issued a Chanukah stamp.

Yet the United States regularly touts a Christian holiday with Christmas stamps.

'Tis a puzzlement, to be sure. Either government should be in the religion business, or it shouldn't. (My preference: it shouldn't.)

[Salvation]

So were the leftists the one who designed this one? All the more reason not to buy it!

[nuconvert]

Those stamps were available at Christmas as one of "your choices" of a "holiday" stamp. I refused them. The woman at the counter said they weren't selling well.