Posted on 08/29/2016 11:55:59 AM PDT by PROCON
Muslim leaders in the US fear people will think they are celebrating 9/11 after it emerged a major festival has the potential to fall on September 11 this year.
According to the lunar calendar that Muslims follow for religious holidays, Eid al-Adha looks set to fall around the 15th anniversary of the 2001 Al Qaeda atrocity which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
And as they prepare to mark the 'feast of sacrifice' there are concerns among the Muslim community that people will misinterpret the festivities as a celebration of the attacks, which saw terrorists flying hijacked jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Meanwhile the local mosque (across the street) held a belated eid carnival within spitting distance.
While waiting at a traffic light at the corner, cursing that I was without a camera that day, I witnessed celebrating children from the mosque sliding down an air filled amusement - directly facing the new memorial under final preparations for the 10th anniversary dedication (2011).
It looked like the mosque was intentionally mocking the anniversary by directly placing that amusement facing the memorial - with children gleefully sliding down the ramp - as if mocking the victims who fell from the twin towers on 9/11.
That mosque has never held another carnival in that location before or since. And it was no longer eid when this took place.
NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
So, cancel it. Show some cultural sensitivity.
Fears of an anti-9/11 backlash by muslims as Eid al-Adha festival falls on 15th anniversary of first 9/11 muslim terror attack
cripes...they have a holy day on the same day as another one of their holy days ?
HiTech RedNeck wrote: Can someone actually do the research. It is supposed to begin in the evening of 9/12 and culminate on 9/13. Close, but not actually on 9/11.
Yes, it begins on Monday, September 12, 2016. Because it falls on a Monday - anticipate activities to be held on the weekend before...likely including the Sunday, 9/11/2016.
Given the behavior exhibited in upstate NY on the tenth anniversary (mentioned above), I expect there will be unabashed celebrations to upset Americans across the country.
Also if I am not mistaken, Muslim hoiidays start the night before.
Didn’t they just try to bump Independence Day for the other Eid?
Actually two Moslem holy days coincide this year on 9/11. Eid al-Adha is the other one.
The Muslim festival of IED.
https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
Thescore is: More than 29,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 9/1//2001, but fewer than 100 anti-Muslim backlash attacks worldwide in the same time period. If they weren’t intentionally lying, even a liberal would have figured it out by now.
Too many Americans could care less about those pesky, murdering muslims as long as they have their smart phones and know what Beyonce and Jay Z are doing.
Biggirl wrote: Also if I am not mistaken, Muslim hoiidays start the night before.
Jewish holidays begin at sundown the day before. I'm not sure theirs do.
Just once, just once, I wish that backlash would happen!! It’s time to get tough.
In other words, Muslims are putting us on notice they have no intention of demonstrating cultural sensitivity towards their adoptive country by postponing public celebrations for a day.
Gather them all up and send them scurrying back to their sandboxes.
“The Arabs use a pure lunar calendar not adjusted for the solar year so these Muslims holidays are all over the place during the solar year. Not a great calendar to rely on if you have to plant crops and the like.”
Uh, Arabs and crops? Their culture evolved in the desert. They loot and pillage. They do not plant anything but seeds of death and destruction across the world.
Oh the dreaded mythical Muslim backlash meme.
Islam is a war plan.
It is right after 1) the first Friday after a new moon and 2) the Sabbath this year...
Eid al-Adha 2016 date is expected to be on September 11 This year, the holiest Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha is expected to begin on Sunday, September 11.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/eid-al-adha-2016-holiday-day-160814084340209.html
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