Posted on 11/12/2014 6:30:18 AM PST by Red Badger
ROCKVILLE, Md. Christmas is now just December 25th in the Montgomery County school district.
The suburban DC district stripped Christmas and Jewish holy holidays from its official calendar after Muslim parents complained.
But thats not good enough as they say the move does nothing to gain parity and a day off for the Muslim holiday of Eid, according to WTOP.
Equality is really what were looking for, Saqib Ali, co-chair of Equality for Eid, says. Simply saying were not going to call this Christmas, and were not going to call this Yom Kippur, and still closing the schools, thats not equality.
CAIR isnt happy either.
Whats really concerning to us is that similar conditions werent placed on any other faith community, a representative of the group, Zainab Chaudry, says, the station reports.
The district is attempting to decouple the breaks from school and religious holidays by calling them winter break and student holidays.
But school board member Michael Durso says unless the Muslims complaints arent addressed, it comes off as insensitive, and I just think we cannot afford to be in that light.
According to NBC 4, school employee Samira Hussein has campaigned for 20 years to have the Muslim holiday added to the school calendar.
The Eid is just the same exact as Christmas day or Easter day or Yom Kippur, she says.
School representatives note absenteeism isnt much different on the Muslim holidays.
The absentee rate on the Eid holidays, when theyve fallen on a school day, havent been considerably higher or lower than it is on any other given day, spokesman Dana Tofig tells the news station.
The Washington Post reports the board 7-1 to stop recognizing the Christian and Jewish holidays.
This seems the most equitable option, said board member Rebecca Smondrowski, who proposed the idea, according to the paper.
The citizens of Montgomery County need to call for an immediate recall of any of the members that voted for this.
I bet if a recall gained some traction, then all of a sudden that same board would reverse its decision.
I'm not saying that there have not been Christians living here. There have. I'm not saying that Christ hasn't worked through America to accomplish His will, because He has.
But America cannot be called a Christian nation by anyone other than the likes of false teachers like Joel Olsteen and company. Not by anyone who truly understands Christianity as set forth in the New Testament.
Even if you’re right, I think it’s dangerous and opens us up to a lot of bad stuff if we turn away from our Judeo-Christian heritage, even atheists can understand that.
It’s not the country that is known as a country of a certain religion...It is the people...Israel is not jewish, but their people, for the most part, are...Same as with America...the people are, for the most part, Christian...
Except, we are the majority.
Is the anything Americans won't take?
“It isn’t that liberals are wrong, it is just that they know so much that isn’t so!”
“Really? Since when?”
Since the founding and as a result we have been a very blessed people. The rest of the stuff you spouted is proof to me that you hate America.
Has there been retrettable errors in our history? Yes, but America has done far more to advance good in this world than evil.
Thank you for addressing this pathetic anti-American screed!
Are you naive or just blind? Do you not see what's happening?
God gives nations to people. When those people disobey Him he gives those nations to their enemies.
Mexicans are flooding our cities. As are Muslims. As are liberals. As are homosexuals. As are all the enemies of righteousness.
It's happening because America no longer even makes the claim to be Christian. As a nation.
Is it possible you really don't know what's happening? Sad.
Nice intro.
I never argued that America is still making the claim to be a Christian nation. I’m calling you out for listing every perceived ‘ill’ of America thereby suggesting we were NEVER a Christian nation.
Wouldn’t The Grinch be in ICU with an enlarged heart?
“eid (does not deserve a capitol letter) floats along depending on the moon cycle and happens at different times of the years.”
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So what?
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur don’t have specific dates.
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There’s no room in America for radical Islam like this.
Not with ObolaCare.......................
Sure there is. Death Valley. They'll feel right at home......................
***Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur***
I haven’t heard anyone complain about them, have you?
Except a moslem.
At this point parochial schools are the way to go. Jewish kids belong in Jewish schools, Christians in theirs, etc. There is no longer a common culture.
***Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur***
“I havent heard anyone complain about them, have you?
Except a moslem.”
Sure,Christians complained when those 2 Jewish holidays were declared days off in the school system which my kids attended.
That was 40 years ago,though,and it all worked out eventually.
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Reminiscent of the Kensington Santa Ban of 2001.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Here on Monkey County, even my wife’s lib friends were complaining of this.
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