Posted on 10/10/2007 2:10:59 PM PDT by Pyro7480
NEW YORK (AFP) - New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.
"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.
Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.
Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.
An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.
Appease the lunatics and they won’t make you a target, doncha know?
It’s an attempt at getting cheap anti-plane protection for the building.
Advance of Dhimmitude ping!
Just another example of the self destructive nature of the human race. We will appease the enemy until they make us bleed so bad we have no choice but to strike back.”Again”.
Why don’t they just paint a big bullseye on it?
Perhaps they should light it up with a bullseye on it.
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Tell them exactly what you think!!
(not POGW -- but important!!)
Beat me by two seconds.
I’m starting to be convinced that the Mexicans and the islamofacists have put nukes under the White House. Why else would people like GB be kissing up to all these people?
Look at "Dick Tracy." I have not followed from it but I gather the story line was - no, it is not satire - something along the lines that Russian agents helped by Germans tried to blow up national monuments and blame Mideastern terrorists. Heck, nobody needs to frame these terrorists - they keep trying to pull something all the time.
Remember who is running America. The people have no say anymore. Its obvious that big business has already decided that the American people are worthless scum that will do whatever they are told. It was never more obvious than the illegal immigration that they tried to push through. Its also very obvious in the fact that the three top tier candidates could care less about you and I, just like Bush. Once they get in they will work to remove our sovereignty and dilute the constitution. To make matters worse If we try to boycott certain companies because of their leftest practices most freepers on here will say they cant be bothered or it doesnt make any sense.
The time to stand up and do something is before your freedoms have been taken away.
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That's the controlling owner of the Empire State Building.
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The surrender monkeys will be putting a burka on the Statue of Liberty soon enough.
according to a statement.
What officials? Who issued this statement? Who is responsible for this? Who made this decision? They need to be held accountable, and to hear the outrage from the families of the Trade Center victims just down the road.
For cripes' sake, why is it that "sensitivity" never works in favor of AMERICANS or Christians???? This is the city where 6 short years ago, 3,500 innocent men, women, and children were MURDERED by these savages. Now you turn over one of your skyline landmarks to "celebrate" them? What the hell is WRONG with you????
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