Posted on 07/19/2010 6:14:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
Imam Khalid Latif, a chaplain for New York University and the New York Police Department, recently appeared on CNN. He suggested that the New York public schools should close for at least two important Muslim holidays each year. I could not agree more. Latif suggests that American Muslims are trying to develop their own contemporary identity as the religion of peace and tolerance. In his view, closing schools for major Muslim holidays would help that process since an Americanized modern and moderate Islam would benefit all Americans.
However, I would alter Latif's suggestion slightly. We should treat the various Muslim holidays as we have the birthdays of American presidents with the singular Presidents' Day. My recommendation: we roll all the Muslim holidays into one National Muslim Day and celebrate it on September 11 each year. The New York schools can then follow suit along with the rest of the country.
Rather than working to educate us slow-learning Americans about the merits of holidays like Eid al-Fitr and the birthday of Mohammad, it seems most fitting that we celebrate the contributions and significance of Islam in America's history with one special day each September 11. Mohammad likely does not enjoy birthday cards anyway because those cards too often are filled with cartoons and sketches.
For the inaugural National Muslim Day, President Obama and the mayor of New York can offer inspiring words from the newly proposed $100MM Cordoba Center located a few hundred feet from Ground Zero in the former Burlington Coat Factory whose roof was battered and beaten with burning debris from the collapsing Twin Towers. The Cordoba Institute will place a 13-story mosque, gym, bookstore, and meeting place in the shadow of the unfortunate man-caused disaster in Manhattan. This location seems most fitting for the new holiday's festivities, given the Islamic invasion and takeover of the original Cordoba in the eighth century. One of the Islamic conquerors' first acts was to “convert” the Christian Church of Saint Vincent there into the Great Mosque of Cordoba as a symbol of Muslim conquest and rule. In other words, we destroy your iconic symbols and replace them with ours, kind of like what is happening at Ground Zero right now. Perfect place for the headlining events of National Muslim Day.
During his keynote address that day, President Obama can expand on his recently expressed thoughts and concerns that al-Qaeda is a racist organization who does not value African life as much as it does other human life. Those comments were made in his interview with South African broadcasters in the wake of the tragic Islamic al-Shabaab terror attack on World Cup viewers and soccer fans in Uganda. To the untrained eye, it would seem that al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and other Islamic terror organizations have no appreciation for any human life at all, given their predilection for seeking to blow up planes over Detroit, kill soldiers at Fort Hood, explode bombs in Times Square, and plot nationwide mayhem with young Muslim American citizens like Najibullah Zazi. President Obama's comments can enlighten us all to just how these terrorist groups view African lives differently than those lives of the other people they blow up and decapitate. Yes, their anti-African bias really should concern us.
As the nation rejoices and celebrates on September 11, NASA can showcase special events across the country to feature its new efforts at collaborating with and inspiring the Islamic world. NASA executive, Charles Bolden, will serve as ringmaster for the tent displays featuring the scientific discoveries or international contributions of note that have come from the Muslim world in the past century. Unfortunately, there are no such discoveries or contributions as evidenced by the relative dearth of Muslim Nobel winners or patent filings. A better use of those tents might be to host stonings of Muslim adulteresses (if Iran will provide them for the occasion) and honor killings of Muslim daughters whose words or actions have brought shame to their families (Rifqa Bary will not be available). On second thought, maybe NASA just should not participate on September 11. Perhaps they can occupy themselves with other tasks that day like air, space, aeronautics, that kind of thing. One day a year on those tasks should not be too distracting.
At the Pentagon, Janet Napolitano will offer inspiring words about man-caused disasters and how we are avoiding those now. Eric Holder will expound on how there is no such thing as “radical Islam,” nor is there any connection between Islam and terror at all. And John Brennan can recite in Arabic the wonderful dimensions of jihad since the rest of us evidently do not comprehend the nuances of that glorious idea as well as he does. During these lectures and encomia, free copies of Orwell's 1984 will be distributed in order to advance the public understanding of doublespeak.
Finally, the one unifying event of the day that will happen in households all across the country on September 11. Every family and person will be required to view Alice in Wonderland. After all, Alice seems like the perfect inspiration for National Muslim Day, doesn't she? “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
What a wonderful day it will be. I could not agree with Imam Latif more. I only wish he could expand his vision to include all of America rather than just the public school students of New York.
This is how it’s done(Incrementally)!It’s right out of The DemonRat playbook!
“The truth is, the residents of Skyline Towers cheered that very day as the Trade Center fell. The people in these buildings are animals.” —former tenant of Pentagon-area apartments popular with Saudi diplomats and Muslim immigrants
Then stage international protests condemning Saudi Arabia's 100% intolerance of all other faiths (no religious texts, no places of worship that are not Islamic). Condemn those muslim nations that impose a death penalty on muslims who convert away from Islam. Condemn the Saudis for having a death penalty for all non-muslims who'd dare enter the segregated cities of Mecca and Medina (it matter because all of those peaceful tolerant muslims bow to this segregated city every day).
Want to show your good nature? YOU go first. We do not have to "submit" to Islam to show YOU are tolerant.
Can we blow up a Mosque to celebrate?
Anyone who does not recognize the name and the groundbreaking date to be signs that this is an Islamist holy site marking the day jihad came to the land of Great Satan is blind.
This could become "New Mecca" (in the heart of what was once New Amsterdam).
I’ll go along with a “Muslim holiday” if it’s like a “tax holiday”. The rest of us get a holdiay from them.
The Saudi funding of this mosque is likewise a violation of our constitution. It is a foreign State imposing religion on the US.
There is ZERO tolerance for other faiths in the Islamic theocratic State of Saudi Arabia.
Easter is always a day off as it falls on Sunday. Good Friday is no longer a holiday for all people.
Religious Islam can be whatever it wants to be (without the holy war jihad, slavery, and honor killings). No tolerance needs to be shown POLITICAL Islam which is the political system of rule of a dead conquering warlord.
Here you show a typical Western vision in drawing a distinction that is no difference. "Political" Islam IS "religious" Islam; the two are inseparable. Only in America are Church and State divorced. In most other countries, but especially in Muslim enclaves, the religion is the government and vice versa. Tolerating one means tolerating both. And since a Sharia government is intolerable, Islam is incompatible with American concepts of liberty.
Hell yes I’d love a national muslim holiday.
“Lets All Piss On Muhammed Day”
“He suggested that the New York public schools should close for at least two important Muslim holidays each year.”
Don’t come around here trying to sell crazy.
>”My recommendation: we roll all the Muslim holidays into one National Muslim Day and celebrate it on September 11 each year.”<
If you read the article your comment wouldn’t appear so foolish.
“He (Imam Khalid Latifwho) suggested that the New York public schools should close for at least two important Muslim holidays each year.”
He (referring to Imam Khalid Latif who wants the legimate Muslim Holiday). I did read the article and stand bt my statement. Perhaps you should re-read the first sentence.
So what will folks be eating at their Muslim Day table?
Horrible.
No.
And the great part about this is that while the government may close schools and government facilities, everyone else is free to ignore it and go about their businesses.
and the author replied, >”My recommendation: we roll all the Muslim holidays into one National Muslim Day and celebrate it on September 11 each year.”<
>>>But a more serious conclusion I believe the West will make - sooner than we think - will be that Islam is not a religion at all. It is a political ideology masquerading as a religion.<<<<
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