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This stamp was written up often when it first came out -- it was controversial then. My critique is that the stamp didn't just commemorate one holiday -- but TWO, both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. AND it chose the EID holidays instead of Ramadan? Why? It is the Eid al-Adha commemoration that is the most troublesome. This is "The Feast of the Sacrifice" that occurs circa 2 months after Eid al-Fitr (at the end of the Hajj). It celebrates the Islamic version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. However, in the radical Islamic world today, it is this very holiday that is celebrated by the "Holy Warriors" as the celebration of Jihad. And it's on a U.S. stamp....

If this one gets you fired up, how about THESE:

* Not 1, but 2! stamps were issued in the 1990s for former communist terrorist and supporter of Bolshevik mass murder, W.E.B. DuBois (Who renounced his U.S. citizenship after moving to Ghana! So he gets to be on a stamp?)
* Mexican Stalinist! Frida Kahlo (who first gets subsidized by a famous Limo Leftist in New York, then a stamp, and then a white-washed propaganda movie, as part of the Left's campaign to give the Mexican immigrant community in the US leftist revolutionary icons).
* And then Cesar Chavez (2003) -- the revolutionary symbol of Castroites and socialists throughout Latin America. The BUSH administration has taken to offering kind words for this subversive from Saul Alinsky's socialist revolutionary operation, and just issued a stamp on the 10yr anniversary of his death. Castro, Hugo Cesar Chavez of Venezuela, Hillary Clinton -- a disciple of Alinsky, and Ted Kennedy, all have something in common -- they love Cesar Chavez (who had a few kind words for Castro along the way, too). So what in the world is the WH doing trying to help the anti-freedom Left in the Americas (or in promoting the "Third Way" Leftist propaganda drive to build up Gramsci and Alinsky as the new role models)? Do they honestly think anyone on the Left or in the Mexican community will change attitudes in response to a cheap press release or decision to issue this stamp? Whoever is running "Hispanic" outreach in the WH is a rank amateur.

PLEASE WRITE TO THE WH TO GET THESE STAMPS PULLED FROM SALE!