New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this past week that he will begin closing New York City public to observe Muslim holidays beginning with Eid al-Adha – also called the “Feast of Sacrifice” and Eid al-Fitr– the day that marks the end of the Muslim Holy month of Ramadan.
Mayor de Blasio made the announcement at PS/IS 30 in Brooklyn, where 36 percent of students were absent the last time Eid al-Adha fell on a school day.
The New York City schools serve 1.1 million students with Muslim students representing 10% of enrollments. In making the announcement, de Blasio said:
“We made a pledge to families that we would change our school calendar to reflect the strength and diversity of our city. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim families will no longer have to choose between honoring the most sacred days on their calendar or attending school.
This is a common sense change, and one that recognizes our rowing Muslim community and honors its contributions to our City.”
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Ditto Steve. I pray that every professing Christian in the City of New York demands that the school system observe Good Friday and Christmas — NOT the holidays! If they can cater to and bow down to the terrorist — there is no doubt all of them are terrorist whether they actually pull a gun trigger or not, just read the Quran — then the schools can bow down to the demands of the Christian community.
When I started working for a Jewish boss and he was adament about taking certain Jewish holidays off, I too started taking Good Friday and the week between Christmas and New Year’s off. The Good Friday holiday, almost always fell on the last day that the faculty promotion and tenure documents were due. If you know anything about college faculty, they are the worlds worst procrastinators. The boss was not exactly happy about this but you know what, I did not care!
The bottom line is we cannot under any circumstances maintain an American culture and yet bow down to any and all ethic groups. We are detroying ourselves as our leaders push more and more diversity and PC on us. We are doomed. May the Lord Jesus come quickly!
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