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December 24 is UAE public holiday to mark Prophet's birthday
EMIRATES 24/7 ^ | December 13, 2015 | By Wam

Posted on 12/23/2015 8:34:37 AM PST by SIRTRIS

Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education, and Chairman of the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, has declared Thursday, December 24, an official holiday for the public sector to mark the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), postponed from December 23.

A circular issued by the Minister of Education stated that the decision is in implementation of the provisions of Paragraph 5, Article 100 of the Cabinet Resolution No. 13 of 2012 and regulations of the decree of Federal Law No. 11 of 2008 on human resources in the federal government and its amendments, which defines the public holidays of ministries and federal authorities in the country.

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TOPICS: Activism; Catholic; Islam; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: muslimworld; uae

1 posted on 12/23/2015 8:34:37 AM PST by SIRTRIS
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To: SIRTRIS

Gotta get there one day before Jesus...next thing you know the Emir will require everyone to go out and buy gifts to exchange.


2 posted on 12/23/2015 8:39:16 AM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: SIRTRIS
Ho hum. Who cares?

And besides, Shi'a and Sunnis have different birthdays for their favorite pedophile. So which is it?

3 posted on 12/23/2015 8:41:00 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: SIRTRIS

Maybe they can put his picture on a postage stamp...


4 posted on 12/23/2015 8:41:50 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: SIRTRIS
FUMo!


5 posted on 12/23/2015 8:43:28 AM PST by Carriage Hill (0bummer: NO to the Keystone Oil Pipeline, but YES to the Mideast muslim Sewerline.)
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To: rjsimmon
Maybe they can put his picture on a postage stamp...

Now that's an idea! This should be proposed to the US Postal service.

There is a protocol for submitting stamp art to them...

6 posted on 12/23/2015 8:55:07 AM PST by o_1_2_3__ ( –)
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To: SIRTRIS

Muhammad’s b’day is based on the Islamic lunar calendar which jumps all over the place compared the Gregorian solar calendar. It just happens to be the lunar date closely coincides with Christmas. Even on this issue Shia differ from Sunni as to the exact date on the Islamic calendar.


7 posted on 12/23/2015 9:11:57 AM PST by C19fan
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To: SIRTRIS

On the 24th of December, I celebrate by singing carols and praising MY Saviour; certainly NOT celebrating the addled prophet (profit) of satan that the UAE chooses to celebrate! They will find out soon enough, and to their eternal detriment, what is TRUTH!

Amazing, the moslem ‘faith’ is so insecure that it has to set its ‘holy day’ a day ahead of Judaism and two ahead of Christianity. It is so insecure, that it has to build more grandiose places of ‘worship’ over the sites of Jewish and Christian synagogues and churches; it has to shout how much ‘greater’ its ‘god’ is, rather than PROVING it (which it can’t). Pathetic (and VERY contradictory) system of beliefs! Amazing how it demands forced conversion by the sword, versus FREELY CHOOSING to believe via the Word and the teachings of God, come down in human form! With such insecurity in its own faith, ii is obviously a reflection of satan!

Perhaps, in being born in the desert, God is mercifully letting them get acclimatized to their eternity.


8 posted on 12/23/2015 9:22:53 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: SIRTRIS

a day early
and
a savior short


9 posted on 12/23/2015 10:16:28 AM PST by will of the people
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To: SIRTRIS
Well, since the Musims follow the haj calendar for these events, it's no surprise. I THINK year one is when Mohammad was born. That was June 8, 632 in Medina. I just looked that up but I'm not 100% sure. It's been YEARS since we were there.
It may also be when he thought that the Arab version of God and His Book were written. Mohammad was illiterate but "heard" the words. The Koran is really just a knock off of the Christian Bible.
Jesus is "Issa," Mary is "Miriam" and Joseph is "Yusef" and so on.

The Muslims follow the REAL calendar, dated by the birth of Jesus, for everything else, work, money, banking, travel, weddings...everything.

10 posted on 12/23/2015 8:10:28 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: carriage_hill

Oh my goodess, what a fabulous vomit graph!


11 posted on 12/23/2015 8:10:59 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: ameribbean expat
require everyone to go out and buy gifts to exchange

More likely to require them to go take stuff from kafirs.

12 posted on 12/24/2015 11:02:22 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: SIRTRIS; ameribbean expat; A Formerly Proud Canadian
Actually, the date of Mo's birthday changes every year according to our calendar, because Muslims are using a lunar calendar.

Muhammad's birthday

Thu, Dec 24, 2015

Mon, Dec 12 , 2016

Fri, Dec 1, 2017

Wed, Nov 21 , 2018

Sun, Nov 10 , 2019

Thu, Oct 29, 2020

Meanwhile. in the real world, Merry Christmas, Everyone!


O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver
the hope of the nations and their Savior:
Come and save us, O Lord our God
.

Isaiah had prophesied:

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the virgin is with child and shall bear a son, and shall name him Emmanuel. Isaiah 7:14

O EMMANUEL!

GLORIFY HIM!

13 posted on 12/24/2015 7:10:02 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (O Mary, He whom the whole Universe cannot contain, enclosed Himself in your womb and was made man.)
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To: cloudmountain

>>>The Koran is really just a knock off of the Christian Bible.

I agree, it’s a deviant form of the bible & scripts. IN essence the koran is authored by moh.. plus his unwitnessed presents in his koran. Makes for a perfect crime! Love how his own quotes end up in the koran. Oh, wasn’t mohamamd commanded to marry 6-7 yr old ashia per allah? Re: When Allah or Muhammad decide that a man and a woman should marry, they must marry. Surah 33, Ayat 36


14 posted on 12/27/2015 7:00:32 AM PST by SIRTRIS
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To: SIRTRIS
If the Koran is a knockoff of the Bible, it can't be all bad. Mohammad reminds me of David Koresh, or the other way around.

From the Internet:

In 2010, the number of Christians (the world's largest religious group) is estimated at 2.2 billion. Muslims come in second, at 1.6 billion adherents. While Christians are projected to rise to 2.92 billion, Muslims will grow by more than 1 billion, to 2.76 billion.Apr 2, 2015

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"Projections" are worthless but they do show bias, don't they?

One wonders why our good Lord would permit this faith to grow so huge. I don't doubt God's plan at all, but I just wonder.
I plan on asking our good Lord about the human knee as well, that is, why is it so fragile.

15 posted on 12/27/2015 2:27:17 PM PST by cloudmountain
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