Broward schools being asked to close on 2 Muslim holidays

South Florida Sun Sentinel ^ | October 31, 2012 | Scott Travis

[ConservativeStatement]

Broward County public schools are being asked to close for two Islamic holidays a year under a controversial proposal before the district's Diversity Committee.

The request, from the Florida chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations, or CAIR, would make Broward the first in Florida and one of only a few districts in the country to add Muslim holidays into its calendar. Broward and Palm Beach County schools generally close on major Christian and Jewish holidays.

The Islamic holidays requested, which fall on different days depending on the year, are Eid al-Fitr – the end of Ramadan – and Eid-al Adha, which marks the end of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca.

[Jabba the Nutt]

Another reason to separate school and state, avoid politicizing religion.

[Yulee]

In most school districts in Florida, Spring Break is not tied specifically to Easter. It moves around a bit, depending upon when the state schedules testing, and what is negotiated with the teachers’ union. Usually it falls before or after Easter.

In our district, as in most in north Florida, there are two or three choices for employees to choose from, that have been developed by a joint committee of school administrators and teacher union members. the employees vote and the calendar is set for the following year.

Spring arrives in North Florida in mid to late February. Spring Break has been set as early as mid March and mid April. I always rooted for an early Spring Break, so I could take my children to northern areas to snow ski.

My concern is when the Muslims start demanding that school not be conducted on Friday, because it is their day of worship. With the economy as bad as it is, I thought for a while that a demand for longer school days, and four day school weeks would come to the foreground. Once in place, a cry of discrimination would arise, when school returned to a Monday through Friday schedule.

Please remember the word holiday originally meant holy day. We observed the Sabbath and Christian day of worship, because of our Jewish/Christian heritage.

No matter what Barak Hussein Obama says, Islam had no part in the development of our nation, other than enslaving millions of Africans and selling them to European slave traders for transport to America.

How any Black can take a Muslim name, knowing how so many of their ancestors came to be slaves, is beyond me. What they forget is that their ancestors got to keep their manly parts, when they came to America, but their ancestors brothers, who went into Muslim lands were castrated, and became eunuchs. My understanding is that the Arabic word for a black person, and slave are the same word. If this isn't correct, please let me know.

[NormsRevenge]

I’m sorry,, a tardy idea if ever I’d heard one.