Empire State Building to Glow Green for Muslim Holiday

Breitbart ^ | 10/10/07 | AFP

[Fargo Rock]

New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.

"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.

Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.

[Lijahsbubbe]

It’s the end of the world as we know it....

[Pyro7480]

Empire State Building to Go (Be Lit) Green for Muslim Holiday (Insanity!)

[Eyes Unclouded]

unlike that song i don’t feel fine

[Texas Eagle]

What a great idea. I think they should do the same thing with the World Trade Center. How cool would that be? Two one-thousand foot tall buildings glo......oh.....wait a minute.....

[RKB-AFG]

How sad, the dwelling away of Western Civ.

[BreezyDog]

This pisses me off big time. Islam is a death cult.

[FormerACLUmember]

Blood red lights would be far more appropriate, for the endless millions of innocents slaughtered to coerce “conversions” in the 1400 evil years of Islam’s vile existence.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

It's long overdue. I can't remember the last time a New York City skyscraper was lit up to honor Islam.

[Gay State Conservative]

I’m going to be passing near Manhattan on Friday.I think I’ll take a detour to the ESB and go up to the observation deck wearing a jacket whose pockets are overflowing with pork chops.

[dighton]

They’re sending a definite message, “Hit the Chrysler Building first.”

[FreeAtlanta]

Bloomberg strikes again. Why do we allow these left-wing jerks to run as Republicans is beyond reason.

[Migraine]

This is a fair deal, don’t you think? After all, in muslim cities they decorate their buildings for Christmas. Don’t they?

[ConservativeMind]

New York realizes that, after so many months without tall buildings being brought down, it must better advertise their landmarks to those who are most likely to continue the attacks.

[Jaysun]

F**k you, Empire State Building.

[linear]

I’m with you - this makes me want to throw up.

[taxed2death]

The Islamo-facists must be wetting their robes from laughing so hard at us.

[elpinta]

It is only reasonable that Mecca should glow as well.

[null and void]

Nobody here complained when they lit it up Red White and Blue for the 4™ of July.

[aruanan]

Empire State Building to Glow Green for Muslim Holiday

Maybe the West could help the Qa'aba glow green for the next thousand or so holidays.