I appreciate the sentiment, but I oppose the official Balkanization of Americans into different ethnic groups. Jewish Americans are just Americans.
So I would prefer this not to have occurred.
Well, here it is. So we must make merry sport of it. Does Ramadan count as Islamic month? It’s there anyway. They’re usually in a bad mood from the fasting. So why not brighten up their lunar cycle fasting month with a proclamation about how nifty they are.
It was a GW Bush and Arlen Spector idea.