Posted on 06/25/2017 4:22:26 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Barack Obama, whose father was Muslim, enjoyed celebrating his Iftar dinner each year.
President Trump just ended a longtime White House tradition and skipped the Ramadan celebration this year.
For the first time in two decades the White House will not celebrate an Iftar Dinner on its grounds.
Allahu Akbar.
The Washington Post reported:
Ramadan, which falls on the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, started on May 27 this year and ends at sundown Saturday. Muslims around the world will mark the end of the holy month by celebrating the holiday Eid al-Fitr, the “feast of breaking of the fast.”
For the first time in nearly two decades, Ramadan has come and gone without the White House recognizing it with an iftar or Eid celebration, as had taken place each year under the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. In recent weeks, several former White House staff members told The Post they would usually begin planning an iftar “months in advance” and didn’t anticipate the Trump White House could pull something off before the end of Ramadan.
White House officials did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
In late May, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly said the State Department would break with recent tradition and not host a Ramadan reception, as it had done nearly annually for two decades. On Saturday, Tillerson released a brief statement sending “best wishes to all Muslims celebrating Eid al-Fitr.”
“This holiday marks the culmination of Ramadan, a month in which many experience meaning and inspiration in acts of fasting, prayer, and charity,” Tillerson said in the statement. “This day offers an opportunity to reflect on our shared commitment to building peaceful ...
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Bravo! Thank you Mr. President!
America first
Despite the Terrorist in Chief stating America was founded on Islam, it wasn’t. America was founded on Christianity.
I am the first to criticize Trump when he gets it wrong, but this is a good example of getting it right.
Now he needs to get to work and clean up the rest of the ugly mess in the Executive Branch he inherited.
98% of the cleanup requires no legislation at all—just hard work and getting the details right.
I think God is pleased.
Why would he celebrate a faith that he not only believes in, but hates?
Two decades hardly qualifies as a "longtime White House tradition", even for a nation as young as the USA.
“that he not only believes in” correction “does not believe in”
Good for him! God bless President Trump.
Why would any nonmuslim “ celebrate” the end of Ramadan?
Excuse for a party? Cultural appropriation?
I Hope he skips kwanzaa too
Why be a hypocrite? Trump knows who our enemies are.
Ramadan is exactly like celebrating a NAZI holiday in the White House during WWII.
Good, we have had enough submission to Islam by our leaders.
Islam has been at war with the US since its founding, just as they have been at war with the rest of humanity since the founding of Islam.
Jefferson was not having an iftar, he was negotiating with the enemy.
Winning continues!!! Why would anyone with one working neuron celebrate a religious event of the religion of pieces?
First of all, How come we know more about the specifics of Muslim holy days more than the Hebrew holy days?
Secondly, Prez Trump was wrong, I will never tire of all this winning.
More winning please.
In other surprising news the Trump Administration did not celebrate Red Army Day or Führergeburtstag, either.
Bath House Barry looks like a real punk in that man-dress ...
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