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Empire State Building to Glow Green for Muslim Holiday
Breitbart ^ | 10/10/07 | AFP

Posted on 10/10/2007 8:04:51 PM PDT by Fargo Rock

New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.

"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.

Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.


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KEYWORDS: islam; muhammadsminions; muslim; stopislamization; waronislamism
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1 posted on 10/10/2007 8:04:53 PM PDT by Fargo Rock
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To: Fargo Rock; Thinkin' Gal

It’s the end of the world as we know it....


2 posted on 10/10/2007 8:06:15 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (I get enough exercise just pushing my luck)
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To: Fargo Rock
Empire State Building to Go (Be Lit) Green for Muslim Holiday (Insanity!)
3 posted on 10/10/2007 8:07:29 PM PDT by Pyro7480 ("Jesu, Jesu, Jesu, esto mihi Jesus" -St. Ralph Sherwin's last words at Tyburn)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

unlike that song i don’t feel fine


4 posted on 10/10/2007 8:08:36 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded (We won't ever free our guns but be sure we'll let them triggers go....)
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To: Fargo Rock

What a great idea. I think they should do the same thing with the World Trade Center. How cool would that be? Two one-thousand foot tall buildings glo......oh.....wait a minute.....


5 posted on 10/10/2007 8:08:59 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Fargo Rock
How sad, the dwelling away of Western Civ.
6 posted on 10/10/2007 8:09:15 PM PDT by RKB-AFG (1133)
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To: Fargo Rock

This pisses me off big time. Islam is a death cult.


7 posted on 10/10/2007 8:09:55 PM PDT by BreezyDog
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To: Fargo Rock

Blood red lights would be far more appropriate, for the endless millions of innocents slaughtered to coerce “conversions” in the 1400 evil years of Islam’s vile existence.


8 posted on 10/10/2007 8:10:44 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims.)
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To: Fargo Rock
It's long overdue. I can't remember the last time a New York City skyscraper was lit up to honor Islam.


9 posted on 10/10/2007 8:10:51 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (We didn't "win" the Cold War. We had a half-time lead.)
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To: Fargo Rock

I’m going to be passing near Manhattan on Friday.I think I’ll take a detour to the ESB and go up to the observation deck wearing a jacket whose pockets are overflowing with pork chops.


10 posted on 10/10/2007 8:11:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: Fargo Rock

They’re sending a definite message, “Hit the Chrysler Building first.”


11 posted on 10/10/2007 8:13:11 PM PDT by dighton
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To: Fargo Rock

Bloomberg strikes again. Why do we allow these left-wing jerks to run as Republicans is beyond reason.


12 posted on 10/10/2007 8:14:27 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Search for Folding Project - Join FR Team 36120)
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To: Fargo Rock

This is a fair deal, don’t you think? After all, in muslim cities they decorate their buildings for Christmas. Don’t they?


13 posted on 10/10/2007 8:16:08 PM PDT by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: Fargo Rock

New York realizes that, after so many months without tall buildings being brought down, it must better advertise their landmarks to those who are most likely to continue the attacks.


14 posted on 10/10/2007 8:16:11 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: Fargo Rock

F**k you, Empire State Building.


15 posted on 10/10/2007 8:17:15 PM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: Eyes Unclouded

I’m with you - this makes me want to throw up.


16 posted on 10/10/2007 8:17:53 PM PDT by linear (We must act now to conserve the Earth's precious supply of momentum!)
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To: Fargo Rock

The Islamo-facists must be wetting their robes from laughing so hard at us.


17 posted on 10/10/2007 8:18:03 PM PDT by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: Fargo Rock

It is only reasonable that Mecca should glow as well.


18 posted on 10/10/2007 8:18:32 PM PDT by elpinta (Tagline temporarily out of service)
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To: Fargo Rock

Nobody here complained when they lit it up Red White and Blue for the 4™ of July.


19 posted on 10/10/2007 8:18:57 PM PDT by null and void (Lib-uh-rulz can't foresee even the clearest consequences to their actions...)
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To: Fargo Rock
Empire State Building to Glow Green for Muslim Holiday

Maybe the West could help the Qa'aba glow green for the next thousand or so holidays.
20 posted on 10/10/2007 8:21:34 PM PDT by aruanan
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