Empire State Building to Glow Green for Muslim Holiday

Breitbart ^ | 10/10/07 | AFP

[Fargo Rock]

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.

[tina07]

I saw red toooooooooo.

[tina07]

excellent analogy

[Mr. Mojo]

Why are we kissing these medievel morons’ asses?

Liberals hope to ease their all-consuming guilt and self-hatred; "compassionate" Republicans (naively) hope to "win hearts and minds" and show how "tolerant" they are.

[El Gato]

Maybe the West could help the Qa'aba glow green for the next thousand or so holidays.

Unfortunately green is not the colors stuff usually glows after the sort of even you're insinuating. However the desert around the site likely would turn to Green glass.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Why don’t they just light the Twin Towers green? Oh, THAT’S right...

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Awww, dang. GMTA.:)

[word_warrior_bob]

Maybe if they blow up the Sears Tower they’ll honor 2 muslim holidays.

[Mr. Mojo]

Exactly right, yeehah. This inability to comprehend the Islamic/Arab mindset will cost us (and western civ in general) dearly.

[lastchance]

Oh great plan, put lights on the target for the islamaniacs.

[null and void]

They didn’t light it up Red, White and Blue for the 4™.

That was the point, with Richter scale irony...

[Mr. Mojo]

Oh ok. ...I thought they might’ve.

[null and void]

Now that you mention it they might have. ‘Though I doubt it was any time in the last half century.

[HardStarboard]

Which NYC politician is responsible for this blaspheme?

He needs to feel the wrath of the real America...big time.

Just give me the name....

[VR-21]

"Why are we kissing these medievel morons’ asses?"

Because it appears that we're bigger morons.

This is getting to be surreal.

[Captainpaintball]

That is pretty good.

[Eyes Unclouded]

Whats a freedom lover to do?

[null and void]

“When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they have hitherto remained, and to assume among the powers of the earth...”

[Fargo Rock]

Yes, they did.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1337/722151919_efdfc51d65_o.jpg

[Bookwoman]

I was in NYC visiting my son when they had these lights on at the WTC site and it was the spookiest thing I have ever seen. Gave me the creeps and I felt so much horror at the evil that caused the destruction. How dare they forget!