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Both Bill de Blasio, Joe Lhota say schools should close on Muslim holidays (NYC)
NY Daily News ^ | 10/17/13 | Ben Chapman , Erin Durkin AND Jennifer Fermino

Posted on 10/17/2013 5:57:35 AM PDT by jimbo123

No matter who is elected mayor next month, city kids will likely find two new vacation days on the school calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the holiest days of the Muslim year.

Both Democrat Bill de Blasio and Republican Joe Lhota say schools should close on the two holidays, just as they do for major Jewish and Christian days.

It's a matter of "respect" for a religion practiced by an estimated 13 percent of city school kids, de Blasio said Wednesday at a campaign rally with Muslim groups in Brooklyn.

"The origins of this nation (are) people of many different faiths coming together … That's why we have to respect Muslim faiths by providing the Eid school holidays for children in our school system," de Blasio said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: billdeblasio; deblasio; islam; joelhota; lhota; muslimamericans; muslims; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; rop; victorymosque

1 posted on 10/17/2013 5:57:35 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Get real.


2 posted on 10/17/2013 5:59:43 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: jimbo123

But there are no closures for Christmas — it’s a winter break.


3 posted on 10/17/2013 6:01:28 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: jimbo123

Sharia law coming to New York.


4 posted on 10/17/2013 6:02:31 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: jimbo123
No We Don't.

Muslims were frikkin' unHEARD of a mere 20 or so years ago .. they were someone foreign in a middle eastern land .. but we didn't really know about them nor cared ... because we considered ourselves a Christian nation (with problems, of course ... but basically, Christian)

So the frikkin' Muslims are newcomers ... interlopers, if you will, considering the smelly weight they throw around and the equally repugnant obeisance too many people of position and/or power are paying.

No, we DON'T have to recognize them ...

NOT UNTIL THEY RECOGNIZE US !!!!

5 posted on 10/17/2013 6:04:26 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: jimbo123

New York schools already close for Christmas and Easter/Passover and Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.


6 posted on 10/17/2013 6:09:13 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: FewsOrange

For now...until the muzzies take over completely or threaten to blow them up!


7 posted on 10/17/2013 6:10:33 AM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)
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To: jimbo123

DeBlasio will take NYC down the sewer so fast it’ll be like Dinkins all over again. The fake republican is a coward who is only slightly to the right of DeBlasio. NYC is goin’ down.


8 posted on 10/17/2013 6:11:29 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: FoxInSocks

Excellent point! I suppose I would not have a particular problem with this were the same people not constantly at war with Christmas and Easter.


9 posted on 10/17/2013 6:12:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jimbo123

Now were gonna have IED holidays ?


10 posted on 10/17/2013 6:12:47 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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They’ll get it. There is a real push to keep schools open all year. As we chip away at the school year with more and more holidays and “spring breaks”, etc. it will be easier to market.

Summer vacation was created in an agriculture based economy. You needed the kids to work the farm in the summer and mom managed a household that needed a full time manager. That paradigm doesn’t apply any more.

There is no reason for a summer vacation and there are plenty of advantages to full year K-12. For starters, and this is huge - in a culture where both parents are slaves to jobs outside the home, you need daycare all year round. Schools do that pretty well. And the government can further dumb down the future population, pulling them even further from the influence of their parents.

Not that I am in favor of it and, in all seriousness, if I had school age kids now they would be home schooled. But this future is so clear to see for me that it is as if it has already happened.

Give it five years.


11 posted on 10/17/2013 6:21:01 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: UCANSEE2

12 posted on 10/17/2013 6:21:03 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Wow... a long, far cry from Rudy Giuliani...


13 posted on 10/17/2013 6:40:11 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: jimbo123

Pandering.


14 posted on 10/17/2013 6:43:45 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: jimbo123

Of course, this gesture will assure that Muslims do not engage in future random acts of terrorism in New York City. How big-hearted these politicians are!


15 posted on 10/17/2013 6:45:29 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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They’ll be the first in line WHEN the Mohammedans bomb NYC AGAIN asking for federal funds. I say GTHNYC; you lie down with dogs and you wake up with fleas.


16 posted on 10/17/2013 7:00:30 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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17 posted on 10/17/2013 7:04:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: onyx
Separation of church and state? What happened to it?---Oh! Forgot! It is for the muzzies--they can block the NYC streets at prayer time, have special diets, a prayer room in many places for their 5 daily prayer times, wear special clothes, etc. as dictated by their religion, and have classes in their religion given to other students with enactments for greater understanding. Christians cannot mention Jesus, the Bible, carry their Bible, say a prayer.

13% ofNYC school children is a scary number, and they mean to have many many more.

vaudine

18 posted on 10/17/2013 7:35:33 AM PDT by vaudine
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Thanks jimbo123.
Both [the heavily favored] Democrat Bill de Blasio and [trailing] Republican Joe Lhota say schools should close on the two holidays, just as they do for major Jewish and Christian days. It's a matter of "respect" for a religion practiced by an estimated 13 percent of city school kids, de Blasio said Wednesday at a campaign rally with Muslim groups in Brooklyn. "The origins of this nation (are) people of many different faiths coming together … That's why we have to respect Muslim faiths by providing the Eid school holidays for children in our school system," de Blasio said.
It's a Festivus for the Rest of Us ping.


19 posted on 10/18/2013 10:50:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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