Posted on 08/13/2010 9:05:19 AM PDT by NCjim
NEW YORK -- The lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays is creating a potential for misunderstandings or worse in a year when American Muslims are already confronting a spike in assaults on their faith and protests against new mosques.
Eid al-Fitr, a joyous holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, this year falls around Sept. 11. Muslim leaders fear that their gatherings for prayer and festivities could be misinterpreted by those unfamiliar with Islam as a celebration of the 2001 terrorist strikes.
The Muslim Public Affairs Council, an advocacy group based in Los Angeles, is contacting law enforcement and the Justice Department civil rights division to alert them to the overlap.
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Moghul said most New York Muslims likely won't celebrate the way they normally do, and noted that a significant number lost relatives when the World Trade Center was destroyed. Many imams in the city plan sermons on dealing with loss and grief.
"It's a very painful day for everyone," Moghul said.
However, he and other American Muslim leaders don't want to make so many changes that they appear to be giving in to those who reject any Muslim observance in the United States. Some critics have said Muslims should move the date of the eid.
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100% in agreement RF!
LLS
Note this a Fox/Saudia News story. I guess the Saudi shareholders keep pushing the content towards FAR more Islamic friendly stories.
All of TV and all the newtorks suck. The 5 or 6 networks own ALL the cable channels.
Islam,... now... or... later....
Poor widdo victims.
So make it solemn occasion this year. No partying, and when you pray, pray in English for the deaths of bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri and for the destruction of al-Qaeda.
I’ll say this for the Japanese....they didn’t moan about being persecuted after Pearl Harbor, unlike our Muslim friends who seem to believe they are the victims of....what?
Yeah, it’s too bad Fox fell to them.
Gee, I wonder why they would think that.
They are full of it.
Didn’t the whitehouse say the other day that Obama would have a Ramadan dinner “within the next few weeks”?
He wouldn’t. Would he?
Please. Read the article. It is an AP story that was posted on the Fox News website. By their religion editor.
“It’s a very painful day for everyone,”
Yeah right.
He wouldn?t. Would he?"
Yes he would. Obama is hosting an Iftar (breaking the fast) dinner tonight at the White House.
Bullsh!t.
Show me one. Just one religiously motivated assault in the US against a Muslim this year. Or last year. Or in the ten years before that.
I'll wait...
100% right!
"I ate so many sweets, I almost plotzed!"
I want them to worry.
Maybe if they worry enough they will go the heck back where they came from.
See:
http://www.americancongressfortruth.com/
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