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WJZ) Baltimore, MD Today marked a high holiday for Muslims, Eid al-Fitr, one of the holiest days in Islam, but many are still upset that schools were still in session. Now, some Baltimore County parents are taking up a long-standing debate to get Muslim holidays off for students. During the holiday, Muslims fast for one whole day. Muslim students were given a half-day off from school. But, parents are asking the Baltimore County School Board to add the holiday into the school calendar. Jewish and Christian holidays are already observed in public schools. "I want our children to feel as...

Mideast chemists stock up on sex stimulant Viagra amid increasing demand for it during Muslim feast.DUBAI - Chemists across the conservative Middle East are stocking up on sex stimulant Viagra in the hope of huge sales during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr later this week, manufacturer Pfizer said Wednesday. A company statement said pharmacies across the region had increased their stocks of the anti-impotence blue pills "after reporting significant sales increases for the drug over the Eid al-Fitr festival in previous years". "Figures reveal that during the holiday period, a time when families gather to celebrate Eid, pharmacists have...

Muslim, Christian holidays in Israel nothing more than campaign opportunity for politicians Jews usually mix-up Ramadan with Id al-Fitr. They think of Ramadan as a month-long holiday of happy fasting and dancing in the streets, whereas Id al-Fitr is some sort of undefined vagary that must represent an Islamic slaughter sometime in history. Would it really matter if Jews learned to differentiate between three happy days of this festival and the exhausting month that precedes it? Nah, don't worry about it. The Muslims will drink Coke and slaughter a sheep, just as long as they continue celebrating these strange days...

Judge Apologizes for Muslim Holiday Order Thursday November 3, 2005 7:01 PM LONDON (AP) - A British judge apologized Thursday to a suspected Islamic militant ordered to appear in court for an extradition hearing on one of the Muslim calendar's holiest days. Haroon Rashid Aswat, 31, is accused of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, and the U.S. government is seeking his extradition. He appeared in London's Bow Street Magistrate's Court on Thursday for the first day of the hearing. ``It is the most important day of my religion today - Eid,'' Aswat told Judge Timothy...

Al Qaeda’s branch in Iraq rallied Muslims to step up the fight while a militant group linked to the terror network promised a “gift” for Eid al-Fitr, a major Muslim holiday starting on Thursday. In an unprecedented move, the Al Qaeda Organization in the Land of Two Rivers posted a statement Wednesday on the Internet confirming the sighting of the new moon to signal the feast. It congratulated Muslims everywhere on the holiday, which marks the end of Ramadan, the month of daytime fasting and prayers. “From Mesopotamia we send our best wishes to the nation of tawhid (monotheism) for...

CAIRO, Egypt - Muslims in the Middle East and across the Islamic world ended their final sunrise-to-sunset fast and did last-minute shopping for sweets, clothes and toys Wednesday ahead of a three-day holiday celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan. From the Philippines to Morocco, Muslims prepared for the Eid al-Fitr holiday — or started the celebrating right after their last sunset meal. In the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, children paraded through the streets carrying candles. There were fireworks in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Stalls in street markets in Lebanon and Egypt were packed with multi-colored candies,...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's interim defense minister said on Friday the government would arrest Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi after the Eid al-Adha holiday for allegedly maligning the defense ministry. "We will arrest him and hand him over to Interpol. We will arrest him based on facts that he wanted to malign the reputation of the defense ministry and defense minister," Hazim al-Shaalan told Al Jazeera television, adding the measures would start after the Muslim holiday which began on Jan. 20.

When Muslims mark the end of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj,this month, the central figure in their religious celebrations will be the prophet Abraham, not the prophet Muhammad as one might suppose. That fact offers an excellent opportunity for Muslims, Christians and Jews to recognize their shared religious heritage and to promote a common future as people of faith. Each year, Muslims in American and around the world conclude their Hajj with a holiday called Eid ul-Adha (eed-al-ODD-ha), or "festival of the sacrifice." This year, Eid ul-Adha was expected to begin Friday, depending on the sighting of the...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A Muslim group plans to slaughter 100 lambs on a farm this weekend as part of a religious rite, but state officials plan to be there with their video cameras to monitor what they consider an unlicensed slaughterhouse. The arrangement is the result of negotiations between the state, the Muslims and father-son farmers Kenneth and Eddie Rowe, who have leased their farm in rural Princeton for use during Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Muslims observing a religious holiday will be allowed to sacrifice about 100 lambs at a Johnston County farm this weekend, but state agriculture officials will be keeping a close eye. The attorney for the farmers said the slaughter in observance of Eid al-Adha isn't that much different than hog killings. State Agriculture Department officials will be there to observe and possibly pursue a claim that the farmers are violating state law by allowing the slaughter. The slaughter will go on through the weekend after the agriculture officials and the farmers reached a court agreement. Agriculture officials will...

Lubbock Muslims will celebrate Eid al-adha (Feast of Sacrifice) at 8 a.m. Thursday with prayer and sermon at the Islamic Center of the South Plains, 3419 La Salle Ave. Only the pilgrims in Mecca can participate in the Hajj fully, but Muslims around the world join in celebrating this feast on the 10th day of Zul-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar. The festival commemorates the Prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice everything for God, including the life of his son, and is marked by providing meat for the poor, gifts for children, special prayers, visits with family and friend...

One December a few years back, I was in Santa Claus, Indiana, and went to the Post Office - a popular destination thanks to its seasonal postmark. "Merry Christmas!" I said provocatively. But Postmistress Sandy Colyon was ready for me. "A week ago," she said, "I'd have had to say 'Happy Holidays', but we've been given a special dispensation from the Postmaster-General allowing us to say 'Merry Christmas'. So Merry Christmas!" That's "Christmas" at the dawn of the third millennium - a word you have to get a special memo from head office authorising the use thereof. In America, most...

Saturday after Thanksgiving is the traditional day to purchase stamps for my annual Christmas card mailing... [snip] So, shortly before noon on that most recent post-turkey day, I sauntered into a neighborhood "U.S. Postal Store," [snip] and headed for the stamps-only section. I quickly found a packed wall of display racks offering a panoply of first-class postage devoted to the various elements of the year-end holiday season, specifically: 1) Christmas, featuring colorful, contemporary designs of Santa Claus with an array of inanimate, secular Yule symbols; 2) Kwanzaa, with not just one but two stamps promoting a totally fabricated "harvest holiday"...

Notice THIS MUSLIM stamp is proudly re-issued for the "holidays". Here it is sandwiched between the Santa Claus ornament stamp and Mary http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/home.jsp and here it is standing alone: http://www.stampsonline.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=2689760 The Eid stamp commemorates the two most important festivals-or eids-in the Islamic calendar: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. On these days, Muslims wish each other "Eid mubarak," the phrase featured in Islamic calligraphy on the stamp. "Eid mubarak" translates literally as "blessed festival," and can be paraphrased as "May your religious holiday be blessed." This phrase can be applied to both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. The first day of...

Washington -- The county council of Howard County, Maryland -- a suburb of Washington and Baltimore -- made headlines recently when it passed legislation prohibiting the scheduling of public hearings on the two Eid holidays, the most holy days in Islam. Although Howard County's action is unusual, it does reflect a growing trend toward official recognition of Muslim holidays in the United States, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which informally tracks such developments. Especially since the attacks of September 11, 2001, "more and more Muslims are working to get their communities integrated into U.S. society and have...

WASHINGTON — On Sept. 1, well-wishers in Chicago surrounded Aminah Assilmi and praised her efforts to secure the nation's first postage stamp honoring Islam. On Sept 11, the day of terrorist attacks in New York and the Pentagon, Assilmi was again surrounded — this time by some men in northern Kentucky, where she lives. They were shouting anti-Muslim insults and hitting her car with baseball bats. Timing was not the best for the U.S. Postal Service's Sept. 3 release of its commemorative 34-cent stamp highlighting the Muslim festival of Eid. The fallout from that day has shaken Assilmi, who ...

This is new to me...and I hope I have not overlooked a previous post. Follow the URL and see for yourself.....we now issue an Islamic Postage Stamp.

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WASHINGTON: It was a Diwali without sparkle for many Indians who attended a White House event on Wednesday to mark the festival. President Bush was a no-show, First Lady Laura Bush did not turn-up, and there was little representation from the top echelons of the administration or the Republican Party - not even in the form of Karl Rove, Bush's chief political strategist who attended last year's festivities. This year's principal was Robert Blackwill, former US ambassador to India and White House pointman on Iraq, who resigned from the administration over the weekend and whose last day it was at...

"With the blessing of this day, may God help the people of the world to live in prosperity and tranquility and may God solve all the problems of Muslims as well as all the world." -- Afghan leader Hamid Karzai speaking at the beginning of the Eid al-Fitr celebration.

Check out this new Christmas Stamp the USPS is sponsoring. It is shaped like a Christmas Tree with the words in arabic celebrating the EID Muslim Diversity. I’m not sure about you but this makes me sick. This link is to the USPS go there to see it if you care to. http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/display_products/productDetail.jsp?OID=2689760 Jesus Christ our Savior’s birth is the reason for the celebration. Join me in the boycott of this stamp and demand its discontinued use. Muslims are the reason for most of the world’s conflicts, all of the terrorism and the spread of hate around the world. Let’s...

Please confirm if the U.S.P.S. has issued or is issuing a Muslim Holiday Postage Stamp for purchase in the U.S. If so: Why? I have never seen a Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, etc. one issued of late? Am I wrong in my anger? Any wise input would help me.

San Jose Police Chief Rob Davis was speaking to 7,000 Bay area Muslims last year at the end of Ramadan, Islam's holy month of fasting, when he suddenly realized that they had gone hungry when he had not. And they were celebrating an experience he did not know."It just dawned on me," he recalled. "If I am truly going to understand the nuances of this religion, I should join them in this fast."

OTTOWA -- A full-length animated film about the early life of the Prophet Muhammad is being released in North America to help fight anti-Muslim prejudice.Muhammad: The Last Prophet will be screened in 37 cities, including Toronto, London, Ont. and Windsor, Ont., for one week starting Nov. 14.The screenings coincide with Eid ul-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Islamic fast of Ramadan.Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Council on American Islamic Relations, which is sponsoring the screenings, said studies have shown prejudice decreases when people get accurate information about Islam. She said the film is timed so that Muslim families...

News media gets tip of a roadside bomb and sets up cameras to film US soldiers being blown up when it went off. http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/news_release.asp?NewsRelease=20040609.txt NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 June 3, 2004 Release Number: 04-06-09 ============================================= For additional information on the story see also: From Palace Of Reason http://www.palaceofreason.com/Curmudgeon/curmudgeon.html then select "Firing 'Em Up" from the left menu): Fran's Sunday Follies, A Saturday Edition: Firing 'Em Up June 5, 2004 Either I've been teleported interdimensionally to a world where black is white,...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) _ Atlantic City has become the fourth school district in New Jersey to recognize Muslim holidays. The city's board of education approved districtwide days off for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, two sacred Islamic holidays, for the upcoming school year. Previously, under state law Muslim students and teachers were allowed to take off Islamic holidays without being penalized. According to Superintendent Fredrick P. Nickles, about 560 of the city's 7,800 children are Muslim. Board member Cornell Davis, who is Muslim, called the decision ``courageous'' in light of current tensions between Americans and Islamic extremists. ``It shows...

LAHORE, Feb 6 (OneWorld) - Donating skins of sacrificed animals for charity is big in Pakistan, where over three million animals were sacrificed during the Islamic festival of Eid, but jehadi groups are cornering a large number of the hides and selling them to bankroll the "holy war." Despite a ban on seeking donations for jehad, several organizations display banners and posters across the country, asking citizens to donate hides so that the "holy war" in Kashmir and Afghanis can continue. Many of the groups involved in the hides-for-money campaign are nongovernmental organizations and Islamic charities and at least two...

<p>February 3, 2004 -- The turmoil across a swath of western and southern Asia, from Iraq to Pakistan, demonstrates just how big a regional impact the U.S.-led regime changes in Afghanistan and Iraq have had. Indeed, shaking things up was a principal point of the exercise.</p>

Monday, February 2, 2004 | Updated: 22:45 IST More than 400 hurt in Turkey while sacrificing cattle for Baqr'id Agence France-Presse Ankara, February 1 Some 429 people were treated across Turkey on Sunday for cuts and fractured limbs they suffered while trying to slaughter sheep and cows to mark Eid-ul-Azha, the Anatolia news agency reported. Several faithful rushed to hospitals with knife cuts to their hands after they took to slaughtering animals themselves rather than finding a butcher to do the job. Others came in with concussion and fractures to their arms and legs after they were kicked by panicked...

<p>Members hug after the prayer service of the Eid ul-Adha, a Muslim holy day.</p> <p>Those expecting prayer got a dose of politics as well Sunday morning as thousands of Muslims gathered downtown for one of their largest holiday celebrations of the year.</p>

<p>IRBIL, Iraq -- Suicide bombers with explosives wired to their bodies struck the offices of the country's two main Kurdish parties in nearly simultaneous attacks yesterday, killing at least 56 persons and wounding more than 235 in the deadliest assault in Iraq in six months.</p>

Last year, Adam Liban celebrated the Islamic holiday Eid ul-Adha by heading to the halal slaughterhouse in Sumner, picking out two lambs and paying someone to slit their throats. It was quick and easy, and it satisfied his duty as a Muslim. This year, he is panicking. The three-day holiday, which begins tomorrow, calls for Muslims to sacrifice an animal in honor of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son at God's command. In the past, many local Muslims went to Crescent Custom Meats, an old slaughterhouse on 23 gravelly acres, tucked near the mountains in rural Sumner. The facility is...

PARIS, 31 January 2004 — The Paris suburb of Evry, which has one of France’s largest Muslim populations, has decided to install video screens to enable the local faithful to watch some 3,300 sheep being slaughtered for Eid this year. The televised ritual slaughter which will take place in a large mobile abattoir is the idea of a local meat wholesaler. “If the idea succeeds this year then it’s likely to become a permanent fixture of Eids in future,” a local municipal spokesman said. Meanwhile, at Le Mans, west of Paris, the local authorities have decided to build a “hard”...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A projectile slammed into a crowded residential area in Baghdad today, causing some casualties, witnesses said. Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers surrounded a section of the Baladiyyat district in the east of the capital shortly after a blast rocked the area, and bursts of gunfire were then heard. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the incident. Soldiers and policemen at the scene gave conflicting accounts of the blast, attributing it alternately to mortar fire and rockets. Rescue workers said at least three injured people had been taken from the scene to hospital and that at...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Attackers fired two rocket-propelled grenades at the Dutch Embassy in Iraq Friday night, hitting the roof with one and setting it on fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished, and there were no injuries. Also, a senior U.S. officer said coalition forces were prepared to deal with any surge in violence during a coming Muslim holiday. The start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan last year was accompanied by a sharp escalation in insurgent attacks. One grenade exploded on the roof of the Dutch Embassy after nightfall, triggering a small fire. Security guards said a second grenade...

Muslim party at Christmas ban library By Fiona Govan (Filed: 14/12/2003) A library that banned the display of posters promoting Christmas services for fear of offending other religions hosted a party to celebrate a Muslim festival only days earlier. Church officials in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, were told by the town's public library last week that their posters could not be displayed because they pertained to a "religious preference group". It emerged yesterday, however, that a party to celebrate Eid, the breaking of the fast of Ramadan, had been held there less than a week previously. The party was organised by...

US RE-ISSUES TERRORIST STAMP By Tom Barrett ConservativeTruth.org We are at the beginning of what some would call the Christian "holy month" - the month leading up to the day we celebrate as the day of Jesus* birth. We will celebrate by giving to the poor, making extra efforts to be kind to others, and remembering the great sacrifice Jesus made for the world. Muslims have just completed the celebration of their "holy month" of Ramadan. They celebrated by increasing the violence and terrorist attacks against Jews and Christians to ever higher levels. I personally disagree with the concept of...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 December 7, 2003Release Number: 03-12-16 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CELEBRATION BUILDS FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN COALITION, IRAQIS HATRA, IRAQ – Coalition soldiers, local patrons and international media danced traditional dances, sang customary songs and ate a feast of both American and Iraqi food as the sun went down on this ancient city. The evening’s celebrations ended the Ramadan season and included presentations from Maj. Gen. David H. Petraeus, commanding general, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and Hatras Mayor Nofil Hamade Sultan. According to...

Paratrooper Spc. Shirley Baez, Headquarters and Company A, 407th Forward Support Battalion, Task Force 1st Armored Division, talks to a couple of orphan Iraqis during their special Eid Al-Fitr dinner celebration Nov 26. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jason B. Baker Paratroopers Celebrate Holiday With Community’s Orphans   By U.S. Army Sgt. Brent M. Williams / 49th Public Affairs Detachment (Airborne)   BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 5, 2003 — The Iraqi children were shy, staring at the festive decorations adorning the walls of the dining room where the paratroopers awaited their arrival. Hesitant at first, the children’s timid faces began...

Letter From The President (XXVIII): Moslems, Spruce up your image Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents, this has been a week of feasts for me. I have eaten different types of meat. smoked, fried, roasted, grilled, barbecued and salted. Thank Allah for Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr. It's that time of the year again and I have to be very careful not to gain any extra weight. As a president, and an African one as that, you have to check your weight and make sure that you are fit to run. just in case an adventurous and overzealous but ignorant Kalashnikov-wielding...

<p>WASHINGTON — A top counterterrorism official says al-Qaeda operatives dropped plans this year for several small attacks in the USA to focus on plotting a "more spectacular" assault comparable to the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S. counterterrorism official, who has access to all intelligence on the terrorist group, told USA TODAY this week that officials have no specific evidence to indicate how or when al-Qaeda might try to launch a massive strike on U.S. soil.</p>

<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) -- Several Islamist Web sites and message boards are encouraging visitors to send holiday greetings to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.</p> <p>Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a three-day festival that marks the end of Ramadan, a holy month in which Muslims fast during daylight hours.</p>

Eid marked by calls for jihad 26/11/2003 12:02 - (SA) Lahore, Pakistan - Pakistan's 138 million Muslims flocked to mosques on Wednesday to mark the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, with hopes for peace with India tempered by defiant calls for jihad from Islamic radicals. Hafiz Saeed, founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba guerrillas fighting India in Kashmir, attracted one of the largest congregations in the eastern city of Lahore. He exhorted 150 000 worshippers to support jihad in Kashmir and threatened destruction of the United States. Saeed's calls flew in the face of an historic ceasefire between rivals Pakistan...

WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily. "Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland," says the internal warning. "Terrorists have designed a crude chemical dispersal device fabricated from commonly available materials, which is designed to asphyxiate its victims." Marked "For Official Use Only," the five-page memo issued Friday says the device...

WAR ON TERRORAl-Qaida terrorists to gas U.S. subways?Homeland Security memo warns of device that uses cyanide to asphyxiate its victims Posted: November 25, 20039:00 p.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily. "Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland," says the internal warning. "Terrorists have designed a...

This year, as the Muslim Eid al Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan approached, a major United States greeting card company, for the first time, published Eid greeting cards. In the past, Muslims in the United States, like Syed Ahmed, had to get their Eid greeting cards from overseas,if they could. But the Bangladeshi-American businessman, who lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, says, "not this year:" Mr. Ahmed says that previously during Eid he was not able to send greeting cards to his friends and relatives because he could not find Eid cards here. But he says now,...

U.S. Warns Travelers to Be Vigilant at Holiday Tue November 25, 2003 03:53 PM ET By Deborah Charles ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (Reuters) - Saying the threat of another terror attack remained high, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge urged Americans on Tuesday to be vigilant as they set off on their travels for the Thanksgiving holiday. "As we enter this holiday season, the United States intelligence community continues to receive and evaluate a high volume of recordings indicating possible threats against the United States and United States interests both at home and abroad," Ridge told reporters after visiting the air marshals'...

WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida terrorists have developed a crude device designed to spread deadly cyanide gas through the ventilation systems of crowded indoor facilities such as subways, according to a closely held security directive issued to law enforcement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and obtained exclusively by WorldNetDaily. "Al-Qaida remains intent on using chemical or biological agents in attacks on the homeland," says the internal warning. "Terrorists have designed a crude chemical dispersal device fabricated from commonly available materials, which is designed to asphyxiate its victims." Marked "For Official Use Only," the five-page memo issued Friday says the device...

ISTANBUL, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Two young women sit side by side in the waiting room of Haydarpasa station in Istanbul, waiting for a train to take them home to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday at the end of Ramadan with their families. One, a 24-year-old university student named Sibel Ates, wears jeans, ear-rings and make-up. The other wears an all-encompassing black chador covering her hair and body. These are the two faces of European Union-candidate Turkey -- an overwhelmingly Muslim country which has been a secular state for more than half a century and which gave the vote to...

Counter Terrorism Official: Al-Qaeda Planning 'Grand Finale' Attack on U.S. for Ramadan Nov. 24, 2003 NEW YORK--PRNewswire--Following the deadly attacks against British targets in Turkey last week, the "chatter" -- loose talk of threats among Islamic extremists, picked up by U.S. eavesdroppers-was spiking upwards again. The traditional holiday of Ramadan, propitious in terrorist minds for great and violent events, was coming to an end. "You have rapid-fire, back-to-back significant Al Qaeda attacks," one counter-terrorism official tells Newsweek in the December 1 issue (on newsstands Monday, November 24). "It's starting to look like this could be the buildup to a grand...