Posted on 01/16/2019 6:48:47 PM PST by bitt
Freshman Congressmen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have wasted no time in shaking up the US House of Representatives. Early Friday morning, Omar and Tlaib introduced a bill adding Islamic holidays to the Federal calendar which has traditionally only recognized American holidays.
Omar and Tlaib’s bill would add Eid Al-Fitr at the end of Ramadan and the four-day-long celebration of Eid Al-Adha to the list of Federally recognized holidays, potentially granting reasons to banks, schools, and other businesses to remain closed for five additional days per year.
Omar and Tlaib justified their work as making America more inclusive of it’s Muslim-American population and moving us further away from our history as a primarily Christian nation. The women are also considering a last minute addition to their bill that would allow for regular Salah time breaks for school children and workers as well as a designated area in each public business where Muslims could perform Salah, the five daily prayers plus the Friday prayer, unmolested...
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Festival of the Goats?
Going to be fun watching libs in the house justify not voting for that bill
The day is coming when the only ‘demonstrations’ that will stop those bastards will involve many corpses.
If the cockroaches aren’t run out of our nation, America will die.
"This bill we sign today is not a revolutionary bill. It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not restructure the shape of our daily lives." -- Lyndon Johnson at the signing of the Hart-Celler Immigration Bill on Oct. 3, 1965.
"With the end of discrimination due to place of birth, there will be shifts in countries other than those of northern and western Europe. Immigrants from Asia and Africa will have to compete and qualify in order to get in, quantitatively and qualitatively, which, itself will hold the numbers down. There will not be, comparatively, many Asians or Africans entering this country...since the people of Africa and Asia have very few relatives here, comparatively few could immigrate from those countries because they have no family ties in the U.S." -- Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-NY), a sponsor of the bill.
"I would say for the Asia-Pacific Triangle it [immigration] would be approximately 5,000, after which immigration from that source would virtually disappear; 5,000 immigrants would come the first year, but we do not expect that there would be any great influx after that." -- Attorney General Robert Kennedy
"The time has come for us to insist that the quota system be replaced by the merit system...It deprives us of able immigrants whose contributions we need...It would increase the amount of authorized immigration by only a fraction." -- Attorney General Robert Kennedy
"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think." -- Edward Kennedy (D-MA.)
Federal holidays are historical, they honor significant American figures or key dates in history. Washington's birthday, Lincoln's birthday, memorializing fallen military, honoring surviving veterans at the end of the Great War, Independence Day, founding days like Thanksgiving and Columbus Da; these are the days that Americans honor.
Note that we do not have a day to honor the Civil War, nor the end of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, or other major skirmishes. Federal holidays are few and meant to be "American."
Federal holidays are not "holiday of the month" clubs for any self-identified group to demand one.
-PJ
She will likely lose in 2 years. The black vote was split 5 ways in the Democratic primary and Tlaib eked out a win (by 900 votes) and only got 31% of the vote. If the black vote is consolidated into a single candidate, she will lose the 2020 Dem Primary easily. It remains to be seen if the party will allow a challenger to her, however.
elected representatives of American States in America have a responsibility or duty to 'move us further away from our history' as part of swearing to uphold and defend the laws of the United States of America?
Does New Orleans get an exception? Mardi Gras can immediately follow Washington’s Birthday. While not on the federal calendar, federal offices and banks are closed on Mardi Gras.
I thought the same of Steve Cohen.
No different than if they were asking for a holiday for the KKK.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion ...
“How about September 11 as a Muslim holiday?”
Nah! That conflicts with a Black National Holiday! It’s the day that GM shows the country next year’s Cadillac.
And don’t forget Kwazaaa and Festivus!
Taqiya!
Get rid of Christmas as a federal holiday and replace it with the anniversary of the Battle of Trenton which is not a religious holiday.
NO !!!
Mother#$&@
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