NJ Schools Add Muslim Holiday to Day-Off List

1010 Wins ^ | Nov 14, 2003 2:38 pm US/Eastern | 1010 Wins

[Dialup Llama]

>I was just wondering how long it will take to add September 11 to the calendar as a holiday -- not to honor the dead, but as the first major victory for Islam in America.

They already produced a postage stamp in honor of the attack.
The stamp was orginially issued on Sept 1, 2001. Look at the Eid (Die) stamp and tell me you don't see the Twin Towers burning.

[capydick]

Great, one more example of our enemies allowing us to destroy our country ourselves. One day when we are on the verge of a Civil War, the whole of the country will wake up when it's too late and ask the question - "How did we allow this to happen to ourselves"?

[auboy]

Welcome to the State of New Arabia.

[ladylib]

Probably. Why keep the school open if no one is going to show up?

A district near me tried to do away with Good Friday. Teachers and students said they wouldn't be in that day. They closed the schools.

[Calpernia]

I do see what you are referring too; but I would want to see what the actual translation is before I assumed it was the towers. Honestly could be coincidence.

[MonroeDNA]

This is how Muslims take over countries.

Just ask France.

[get'emall]

Islam is not the fastest-growing religion in America. Islam is the fastest-growing hate group in America.

[SoothingDave]

They need to be FReeped about the public money they receive. And how they should respond to the LARGER public voice! Ours!

It's this type of hysteria that gives FReepers a bad name.

There was a similar article about a school in Dearborn, MI earlier this week, and the same hysterical FReeper reaction.

If the school does not have a certain percentage of students attend on a given day, it does not legally count as a day of instruction. Schools need to provide so many days of instruction per year, by state law. If they hold school on a day and enough students stay home, the day and all the salaries and utility bills are wasted taxpayer money.

Cause they'll have to add another day to the calendar to make up for this day.

This is true whether the holiday that kids stay home for is Christmas, Festivus, or Eid. It has nothing to do with the school recognizing a religion.

It has everything to do with not wasting time and money. FReepers usually think not wasting taxpayer money is a good thing.

SD

[Dialup Llama]

>I do see what you are referring too; but I would want to see what the actual translation is before I assumed it was the towers. Honestly could be coincidence.

Alot of people think that. But decorative calligraphy is not printing. The artist can form shapes and pictures out of the letters in almost any way he wants. The stamp looks like the Twin Towers because the calligrapher made them look that way.

[SoothingDave]

Do they close for Rosh Hoshanna? Yom Kippur? Good Friday? What a load of bs!

Yes, they do. Try reading the article.

Public schools across the nation have traditionally closed for major Christian holidays including Christmas and several days before or after Easter, and many also close for Jewish holidays as well.

(The only "BS" is the "re-naming" of these holidays, as noted. "Winter Break" falls during Christmas and "Spring Break" falls during Easter. It's not a coincidence.)

SD

[SoothingDave]

Ok, so do the Islamic Schools give anyone off for Jewish or Christian holidays?

Is our goal to emulate the Islamists? Or are we trying to be a civilization?

SD

[Calpernia]

Ok, your point bothers me. I still want to know the translation of those symbols, letters, or characters before I believe that.

[FeliciaCat]

Islam the fastest growing religion in the US??? In prisons maybe.

I have read reports that Paganism is the fastest growing religion...so I suppose we will start seeing Samhain, Beltaine, Imbolg and Ostara popping up as recognized school holidays, right?

[Calpernia]

I don't understand what you said.

[MineralMan]

"Alot of people think that. But decorative calligraphy is not printing. The artist can form shapes and pictures out of the letters in almost any way he wants. The stamp looks like the Twin Towers because the calligrapher made them look that way." You ignore the fact that the stamp was issued before 9/11, and that the calligraphy would have been done many months before the stamp was issued.

[VU4G10]

 

[Dialup Llama]

There is nothing odd about the translation. Snopes says -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."

Whats odd is not the meaning of the words but they way they appear.

[Calpernia]

And a Allah Akbar to you too.

[VU4G10]

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[Dialup Llama]

> You ignore the fact that the stamp was issued before 9/11, and that the calligraphy would have been done many months before the stamp was issued.

You mean the same way muslim schoolchildren in NJ knew in advance to bring cameras to school to take pictures of the attack?