Posted on 03/09/2012 8:15:28 AM PST by Kaslin
NEW YORK - A New York imam has declared that he will start a campaign on April 22 to make the April 26 birthday of the Muslim prophet Muhammad a national holiday celebrated by Muslims and people of other faiths.
Mohammad Abdul Qayyoom, head of the Muhammadi Community Center in Jackson Heights in the NYC borough of Queens, published a copy of the petition via the center's Facebook page to be signed by other religious leaders. The interfaith initiative asks for an establishment of April 26 as a federal holiday, "so that we can enjoy this day like the joy of Christmas."
"One good thing [about] this country are celebrations," Qayyoom told The Christian Post Wednesday. "We have many celebrations -- we have Christmas, we have the Valentine's Day, we have Halloween, we have many many traditions."
Muslims would like to have one day as a holiday in the United States, Qayyoom told CP. And that would be April 26. The date was proposed because it is the day historically recognized as the day the prophet Muhammad was born in 570 A.D., the imam said. The Muslim calendar, following the lunar calendar, makes celebrating most holidays (like Ramadan) tricky in relation to the regular calendar, as they are movable, therefore celebrating that historical date seems reasonable, he claimed in the statement.
Members of the Muhammadi Community Center have been considering this plan since the center was established in 2005, Qayyoom told CP. It is meant as an initiative that would unite the community and invite people of all faiths to celebrate together, he emphasized.
"Because Prophet Muhammad said, 'I am not the prophet of only Muslims. I am the prophet of all human beings,'" the imam told CP.
“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” - Manuel II Palaiologos
“Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” - Manuel II Palaiologos
Holiday for a child molester?
Just talking about the “religion of peace”! Nothing to see here.
The moozies have a great strategy, immigrate and then cultural invasion by increment. They will win if some of us and Europe don’t wake up and smell the couscous.
If they approve this, it should be April 1st -— April Fools Day.
If they approve this, it should be April 1st -— April Fools Day.
Moslems declared holy war against us in 1996 and 1998. We are still at war with them.
> holiday stuff going on in public schools?
Yeah, like 50 year old teachers raping 9 year old girls, in honor of Mo-HAM-head’s consummation of his “marriage” to 9 year old Aisha.
I propose National Pork Rind Day instead. We can celebrate it a mosques if the cleric prefers.
They can take this gutter “religion” and shove it where the sun never goes.
Do you know you can get a free Koran?
Some islamic group will send you one for free.
Great for starting bonfires.
LOL!!!!!
My understanding — and please correct me if I'm wrong — is the main legal argument used until now for recognizing Christmas, Easter, Good Friday, and other Christian holidays but not Jewish holidays at the federal level is that Christmas and Easter have acquired secular as well as religious meanings, and no other religious group has anywhere near the number of adherents benefited by observance of Good Friday and other secondary Christian holidays.
If, however, time is allowed off by a local or state government for Jewish observance of Yom Kippur, Passover, and other religious holidays, the number of Muslims in some of our major cities will soon exceed the number of Jews, and at that point it will become legally impossible not to treat Muslims as a significant religious group warranting accommodation of their beliefs.
Again, if I'm wrong — and I hope I am — please show me.
I don't think I have a problem with the post office printing stamps commemorating Eid, as they have done, since they've done the same for years for Christian and Jewish holidays. However, if a government agency refused to acknowledge a Muslim holiday and got sued for doing so, I'm afraid the consequences might lead to even more radical anti-religious court decisions such as banning government observance of Christian holidays, not necessarily accommodation for Muslim holidays.
And yes, I do understand the difference between accommodating an individual employee's sincerely held religious convictions and proclaiming a holiday honoring a day in a specific religion. The legal principles are different but not unrelated.
I’ll burn a Koran in honor of it.
How ‘bout we just burn the mosque down? Why not? Saracens do that and worse to ‘’other faiths’’ all the time.
As the saying goes, “You can’t make this stuff up”.
I didn’t read the whole article, but I will now,
maybe there was something I missed.
I did miss the thing about the interfaith initiative.
I first thought the Imam was trying to promote it as
a Federal holiday where stores are closed, school is out, but
it looks like that’s not it.Or did I miss something again?
“How ‘bout we just burn the mosque down? Why not?”
I have to admit, I like the way you think.
Hey, turn around is fair play, right? Jus’ sayin’. I mean, it’s all about ‘’multicultrual’’ and all, and Saracens are ALWAYS killin’ people and burnin’ stuff(heavy sarcasm here) Maybe they do that ‘cuz, like, they’re ALWAYS doin’ that to ‘’other faiths’’ and nobody’s doing that to them, ya know? Maybe because nobody’s doin’ that to them maybe that’s why they’re ALWAYS so OFFENDED! So maybe if we started killin’ and burnin’ all their stuff maybe they won’t ALWAYS be so OFFENDED. “jus’ sayin’.
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