Posted on 10/27/2005 1:29:37 PM PDT by sure_fine
TAMPA - Her voice small and hesitant, 11-year-old Rahma Elmohd told Hillsborough School Board members Tuesday night that she "would like it a lot" if students could get one day off for a Muslim holiday.
It was not to be.
Nearly a year after local Muslims first asked that an Islamic holiday be recognized by the school district - just like Yom Kippur for Jews and Good Friday for Christians - board members voted to end vacation days for all religious holidays.
The board approved a 2006-07 calendar that substitutes three secular vacation days for three Christian and Jewish holidays. The vote was 5-1. Board member Carol Kurdell was absent.
About 50 Muslims, many of them women and girls wearing scarves, attended the packed meeting. They said they were disappointed and saddened by the board's vote but will continue to ask for recognition. Several said they worry about a backlash against Muslims.
"We feel like this is an extreme measure," said Ahmed Bedier, Florida director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "We can't say it enough, especially to Christian and Jewish folks, our brothers and sisters in faith: This was not our doing, and we didn't ask for it."
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I don't get it
Of course it was, you scum. You come to this country and do nothing but complain and harping has now resulted in harm to Christians and Jews.
Should we riot and kill Muslims as would happen in your homelands?
What about those days of the week named for Norse Gods?
"Thor's Day" "Woden's Day"?? HMMM HMMM?
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In is a violation of seperation of church and state to use the calendar in school, courts, or legislative bodies...ever hear of the "year of our Lord 2005"? What is that based on?
I "DID" do a search on the title.. nothing showed
"our brothers and sisters in faith:"
Not I Habib; I'm not your brother in anything
""Thor's Day" "Woden's Day"?? HMMM HMMM?"
Not to mention Tir's day, which comes before Woden's day, and Frey's day, which comes after Thor's day.
I didn't know that. Very interesting!
Publik Skools have not had christian-named holidays for years thanx to the ACLU. If Christians and Jews can't have Christmas, Easter, Columbus, Yom KIpper, Rosh Hashanna etc then the Mussies can't have theirs either.
Now they know what it feels like. If they don't like the lack of religious freedom for them they can pack it up and go back.
Her voice small and hesitant, 11-year-old Rahma Elmohd told Hillsborough School Board members Tuesday night that she "would like it a lot" if students could get one day off for a Muslim holiday.
Rahma, Rahma..now see what you have done. Just could not leave well enough alone, could you?! Now go stand in the corner.
USA is wrong for allowing people into this country that just will not allow it to continue as it has always been.
Americans have no other country to run to when ours goes to
"Hell".
Yep, damn Germans and those stupid trees they convinced us all to buy for Christmas. lol
Sure.Take your pick.What'll it be.Iran?Iraq?How about Indonesia?Can I show you something nice in a Sudan?You'll get plenty of Muslim holidays off in these places.
I can't even imagine moving to India(say) and demanding that everything shut down on Christmas because it's an important day to me.
Jesus said the following to the group he taught in the Temple treasury whose intent was to kill him:
Jhn 8:19
"Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also."
Funny thing is today's Christian has eliminated this from Scripture because he and the church knows better. According to them people can know the Father even if they hate or don't acknowledge the Son as the Son and without being called by the Son or the Holy Spirit, much less the Father.
I don't know what they do with
Rev 22:18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Rev 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.
Bull. That's exactly what you did, and you got exactly what you wanted.
That's something I won't worry about. Not now. Not ever.
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