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City of Dearborn asked to close on Muslim holidays
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| 4.15.04
Posted on 04/15/2004 11:20:32 AM PDT by ambrose
City of Dearborn asked to close on Muslim holidays
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Good Friday and Christmas are city holidays. Now, with a large Muslim population living in Dearborn, local leaders of the faith are asking: Why not shut down for our holidays as well?
The western Detroit suburb of 88,000 has been a magnet for immigrants from the Mideast for decades and has one of the nation's largest concentration of Arabs.
Nearly 40 percent of Dearborn public school students are Muslim. The city also serves as a cultural and religious center for the estimated 300,000 members of the Arab-American community in southeastern Michigan.
The two major Muslims holidays in question are Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the monthlong Ramadan fast, and Eid al-Adha, which marks the annual completion of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The dates of the holidays change each year because they are determined by a lunar calendar.
"You do have a large Arab-American population in the city of Dearborn, and it is time for people of the Muslim faith to feel equally important," said Ahmed Chebbani, chairman of the American-Arab Chamber of Commerce.
The American Muslim Society on April 6 asked the City Council to make both days city holidays. The council referred the request to the city's legal department. Each of the Muslim holidays last for several days.
One city councilman expressed doubt.
"The city of Dearborn will follow the state and federal holiday calendar, and until that changes, that's where I stand," Thomas Tafelski said.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: aliens; jihadinamerica
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:20:32 AM PDT
by
ambrose
To: Dan from Michigan
ping.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:20:50 AM PDT
by
ambrose
("I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" - John F. al-Query)
To: ambrose
Yikes! Islamics have their ugly foothold in Michigan.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:22:17 AM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: ambrose
I was about to ping you, when I saw you posted the article. LOL. Isn't this about typical of the religion of death, er, I mean the religion of peace? How politically incorrect of me to make a Freudian slip.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:23:39 AM PDT
by
Mark17
To: ambrose
There are celebrations all over the country for Cinco de Mayo, but the governments do not shut down.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:24:11 AM PDT
by
TonyWojo
To: Mark17
They won't be happy until every American male is bowing down to Mecca 5 times a day and every woman is in a full length abayya and veil.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:26:08 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Your own personal Konservative Klick Guerilla)
To: ambrose
They commit suicide with bombs, we do it with indifference.
To: ambrose
What's going on in Michigan? First a mosque in Hamtramck wants to broadcast the daily prayer calls over loudspeakers and now this!
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:27:19 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: ambrose
"The two major Muslims holidays in question are Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the monthlong Ramadan fast, and Eid al-Adha, which marks the annual completion of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The dates of the holidays change each year because they are determined by a lunar calendar. "
BS, no muslim stops from work or close their businesses on either of these days as I can remember. This is someone just trying to be a moron.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:28:27 AM PDT
by
Pikamax
To: Guillermo
They won't be happy until every American male is bowing down to Mecca 5 times a day and every woman is in a full length abayya and veil. This came from another thread about Canada making the Bible hate speech, but I will bow to Mecca, and give up my Bible when they pry it from my cold dead left hand, while they pry my gun from my cold dead right hand.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:29:25 AM PDT
by
Mark17
To: Eaker
"more proof Michigan sucks" ping
Don't flame this Buckeye too much
real school rivals involve burning cars
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:30:02 AM PDT
by
thackney
(Life is Fragile, Handle with Prayer)
To: ambrose
First, Islamic law and .... THEN .... NEW CANADA
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:31:50 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: lilylangtree
Lots of places are afflicted with the Islamo-cancer. These SOBs have alot of nerve asking for anything from the US.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:34:35 AM PDT
by
BadAndy
(Unjustly banned from Lucianne (now posting in the big leagues))
To: ambrose
President Bush, please make preparations to send the 101st Airborne to Dearborn next.
To: ambrose
"The city of Dearborn will follow the state and federal holiday calendar, and until that changes, that's where I stand," Thomas Tafelski said. Cities with a lot of Jews as students or teachers sometime close on Yom Kippur, on the grounds that lots of people would be absent anyway. Some cities close on Good Friday afternoon for the same reason, and have defeated court challenges, with the courts saying that the city is not following a religion, it is just making a practical accomodation for absences. If the facts in this case are similar, I see nothing intrinsically wrong with it.
To: ambrose
Oh crap. I can see it now. The city refuses to kiss arab butt, which gets all the their respective undies in a knot, which gets them out in the streets protesting their 'rights' and the 'wrongs' we've done agin 'em, and then they're raising hell in every 'burb and suburb across America, dammit. Only a matter of time now before they're blackmailing us right and left in our own backyards. God help us.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:39:22 AM PDT
by
bluejean
(Support the USA - Convict Democrats of Treason)
To: BohDaThone
Exactly, York University(where I attend) gives us Jewish holidays off because of the substantial Jewish population. I don't really see anything wrong with it, in my case it's pretty advantageous because it gives us extra study times for exams.
To: ambrose
"The city of Dearborn will follow the state and federal holiday calendar, and until that changes, that's where I stand," Thomas Tafelski said.
Thomas Tafelski better watch it unless he wants to spark a backlash from the Religion of Peacetm
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:40:05 AM PDT
by
johnb838
("I really don't care; they're all gonna die," US Marine in Fallujah)
To: ambrose
Nuke Dearborn!!! Sorry ... got a little carried away there.
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posted on
04/15/2004 11:41:10 AM PDT
by
spodefly
(I've decided not to include a tagline with this post.)
To: TonyWojo
Each of the Muslim holidays last for several days.Maybe this is one of the reasons the Muslim countries have such a difficult time getting past Medieval times. Now they want to bring their wonderful culture here. I don't think so.
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