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.
Posted on 11/14/2003 1:10:25 PM PST by Calpernia
Add Eid to the list of religious holidays that can get students a day off from school in some communities.
This Essex County district will become one of only a handful of districts in the nation to close schools on a major Islamic holiday, the Eid-al-Fitr on Nov. 26. Paterson and Trenton schools also close that day.
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.
Now, with Islam emerging as one of the fastest-growing religions in the United States, some school districts with significant Muslim populations are recognizing the Eid holidays.
"Up to now, the major holidays have either been Christian or Jewish," said Frank Belluscio, a spokesman for the New Jersey School Boards Association. "But now we're diversifying, and I'm sure this is something we'll see other districts doing in the future."
Irvington, 2.9-square-mile community adjacent to Newark, is the latest to give students off for the Eid, which celebrates the end of Ramadan, the holiest month of the year for Muslims.
Superintendent of Schools Ernest Smith said community leaders convinced the school board that sufficient numbers of students and teachers observe the holiday and planned to be absent from school on the Eid holiday.
Paterson, with its large Arab-American population, started giving students off for Eid about three years ago.
"Members of the Muslim community came forward and requested we consider doing it," said Patricia Chalmers, a school district spokeswoman. "It really came from the community itself, and we were one of the first in the nation to do it."
Trenton has closed its schools for Eid for nearly a decade, a school official said.
In Michigan, Dearborn schools started closing for Eid in 2001, and the Crestwood school district agreed this year to close on Eid as well.
Other New Jersey municipalities with significant Muslim populations still do not close for Eid, including Newark, Jersey City and Camden.
The Eid holiday is slowly gaining in American public consciousness as well. The U.S. Postal Service recently introduced an Eid stamp.
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.
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
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.
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
Is our goal to emulate the Islamists? Or are we trying to be a civilization?
SD
Whats odd is not the meaning of the words but they way they appear.
And a Allah Akbar to you too.
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You mean the same way muslim schoolchildren in NJ knew in advance to bring cameras to school to take pictures of the attack?
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