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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Muslim Holidays in New York Public Schools: Why Not?

Mar 9, 2015 4:59 pm By Robert Spencer

SarsourdeBlasioIn PJ Media I discuss the wonderful new multicultural initiative in New York City:

New York City officials announced Wednesday that public schools in the city – the nation’s largest school district – will now be closed for the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Multiculturalist leftists, of course, are thrilled, and tarring anyone who isn’t as a racist, bigoted Islamophobe – but the decision may not have been as wise and commonsensical as its supporters are claiming.

Far-Left New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was, predictably, among those waving pompoms and lighting sparklers to celebrate (champagne, of course, was out of the question). “This is a common-sense change,” he declared, “and one that recognizes our growing Muslim community and honors its contributions to our city.”

What contributions to New York City have Muslims made? De Blasio, alas, didn’t say. He might have noted the sharp new security procedures that have made the simple act of walking into a building a much more complicated procedure than it was before September 11, 2001. He could have mentioned the inspiring new 9/11 Memorial and Museum. He could have pointed to architectural improvements: the new high-rise building that is marginally less ugly than the Twin Towers that it replaced. But on this key question, he was mum.

Others, meanwhile, had their mind on more practical matters. Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina said: “Muslim students and their families who observe Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha shouldn’t have to choose between an instructional day and their religious obligations. This new addition will also enable a teachable moment in the classroom for our students to learn about religious tolerance and the societal contributions of various cultures.”

This is absurd, of course. Missing a couple of days of public school is hardly a major catastrophe for any child, and people of all beliefs and perspectives and religions have to keep their children out of school now and again for various reasons, with no harm done. If these children wanted to observe these holidays by staying out of school, they could have done so, without imposing the holiday on the non-Muslim students.

The Muslim population of New York, while it is growing, is hardly large enough to justify this. If it’s discrimination against Muslims to have school on Muslim holidays, why isn’t it discrimination against Hindus to have school on Hindu holidays? Because Hindus don’t have loud, aggressive advocacy groups claiming victimhood status and trying to deflect attention away from numerous mass murder attacks and plots in New York City that were inspired and incited by their religious texts….

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  1. No Fear says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    Saudi Arabia has announced that schools will close for Christmas Holidays……

    • mezcukor says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 9:09 am

      We wished

      • M S case says

        Mar 10, 2015 at 7:26 pm

        To answer all your questions about this case the words de Blasio says it all. But if my religion did not get holidays off like the muslim holidays then I’d have a chance at a law suit against NY school system or de Blasio or NY itself.

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    Greek Orthodox, Jews and those of many other faiths (or none at all) have put with being unrecognized for years, but when Muslims have slain thousands and thousands of Americans (because they are Americans) they must be given recognition for their ‘CONTRIBUTIONS’!

    Negative contributions.

    • shabeer_hassan says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 11:53 am

      MORTIMER & NOTOISLAM FIRST ADVICE TO CRUSADERS
      WHO KILL BILLIONS OF PPL THROUGH WW1,WW2,IMPERIALISM, COLONIZATION,REVOLUTIONARIES &CIVIL WAR THEN COME TO HERE FOR LYING

      ONLY ONE EXAMPLE KILLING WOMEN & CHILDREN
      CRUSADERS SAYS
      Deuteronomy 3:3-6

      So the LORD our God delivered Og also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our hand, and we smote them until no survivor was left. We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many unwalled towns. We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women and children of every city.
      If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
      Deuteronomy 2:32-34

      Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. And Jehovah our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining
      Samuel 15:3,8

      Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ ” … He took Agag king of the Amalekites alive, and all his people he totally destroyed with the sword.(NIV)

      HOW DARE & LEGAL RIGHT OF THESE TERRORIST TO CRITICIZING ISLAM?

      Malik :: Book 21 : Hadith 21.3.10
      Do not kill women or children or an aged, weak person,Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees.Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them.
      Muslim :: Book 19 : Hadith 4456
      ……….And the of Allah (may peace be upon him) did not kill the children of the enemy, so thou shouldst not kill the children……………
      Bukhari :: Book 4 :: Volume 52 :: Hadith 257,258
      Narrated Ibn ‘Umar:
      During some of the Ghazawat of Allah’s Apostle a woman was found killed, so Allah’s Apostle forbade the killing of women and children.
      Dawud :: Book 14 : Hadith 2608
      Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
      The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Go in Allah’s name, trusting in Allah, and adhering to the religion of Allah’s Apostle. Do not kill a decrepit old man, o a young infant, or a child, or a woman; do not be dishonest about booty, but collect your spoils, do right and act well, for Allah loves those who do well.
      Muslim :: Book 19 : Hadith 4294
      Fight in the name of Allah and in the way of Allah. Fight against those who disbelieve in Allah. Make a holy war, do not embezzle the spoils; do not break your pledge; and do not mutilate (the dead) bodies; do not kill the children.
      Bukhari :: Book 3 :: Volume 47 :: Hadith 786
      Narrated Anas bin Malik:
      A Jewess brought a poisoned (cooked) sheep for the Prophet who ate from it. She was brought to the Prophet and he was asked, “Shall we kill her?” He said, “No.” I continued to see the effect of the poison on the palate of the mouth of Allah’s Apostle .
      Bukhari :: Book 1 :: Volume 2 :: Hadith 17
      Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 4
      Muslim :: Book 19 : Hadith 4319,4320,4456, 4457, 4458, 4460
      Dawud :: Book 41 : Hadith 5128
      Dawud :: Book 14 : Hadith 2663 ,2664,2663
      Dawud :: Book 38 : Hadith 4390
      Malik :: Book 21 : Hadith 21.3.9
      Malik :: Book 55 : Hadith 55.1.2
      Malik :: Book 21 : Hadith 21.3.8, 21.3.9,21.3.11

  3. wildjew says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    “Missing a couple of days of public school is hardly a major catastrophe for any child, and people of all beliefs and perspectives and religions have to keep their children out of school now and again for various reasons, with no harm done. If these children wanted to observe these holidays by staying out of school, they could have done so, without imposing the holiday on the non-Muslim students….”

    Indeed. It goes for Jewish students as well.

  4. abad says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    Islam’s contribution to New York city: levelling the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 and killing 3000 Americans at the same time.

    • Joginder Singh says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 8:55 am

      And the 25000 acts of terrorism that muslims have carried out globally since September 11 2001

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 10:40 pm

    That the New York schools are rewarding Mohammedans with holidays fourteen years after their pious coreligionists leveled New York’s most prominent buildings and slaughtered almost 3000 of her citizens could not be more grotesque.

    And what do these “holidays” celebrate? Eid Ad-Fitr celebrates the Battle of Badr, the first Muslim attack on Infidels that set the model for all further conquests; and Eid Ad-Adha celebrates Muslim appropriation of Jewish texts, which sets the model for all subsequent denials of history such as the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and the recent ISIS destruction of the ancient city of Nimrud. It is also celebrated by cutting the throats of animals, and letting the streets run red with blood.

    Perhaps a future NYC school field trip can include viewing the destruction of MOMA or the Metropolitan Museum, or perhaps the NYC Public Library…

    • Politically uncorrect says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 8:09 am

      Yes, gravenimage, and oh what teachable moments these conjure up. Today children, we’re going to learn how to cut the throats of goats, sheep and cows. Oh isn’t tolerance beautiful. I hope PETA protests this one.

  6. pongidae rex says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 9:33 am

    In a society where any form of organized resistance to terrorism is denounced as bigotry and racism towards its perpetuators, Terrorism works to achieve political objectives. That is the brutal and unavoidable truth. Where we go from here is anyone’s guess.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 10:01 pm

      Yes, exactly, Rex!! That is the way of the sinful world. Get some planes, shoot them into buildings, kill many people and the world will listen to you and do your bidding. It’s the devil’s way also and the way of our sinful human nature. So, here are the three main enemies of man: the devil, the world, and our sinful nature. And Islam has all three embedded in it.

  7. Dave J says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 11:22 am

    Muslims can and certainly do indoctrinate their own children but they have no right to indoctrinate non-Muslims. Public schools are run by the State and we used to believe in the separation of Church and State.

    NO ISLAMIC HOLIDAYS IN THE USA!

  8. DanS. says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 1:23 pm

    Eid al-Fitr celebrates the slaughter of Meccans who came out to defeat Mohammed when he was raiding the caravans, after he was kicked out of Mecca. It was the battle of Jang-e-Badr. The celebration is the first Ramadan and then the last day, the feast of Eid. WHY would ANYONE who was sane celebrate slaughter, murder, thievery and Mohammed’s reign of terror? Eid al-Adna is the celebration of the bastardization of Abraham not slaying Isaac on the Temple Mount rock. Muslims kill and steal – THAT is to be celebrated? wow.

  9. Heather says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    They can celebrate muslime holidays after Saudia Arabia closes schools for Easter and Christmas after all non-muslimes have blown up a few mosques and killed 3,000 people. Then build a church at the sites.
    That’s sounds like equality.

  10. Solange says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Then, they must close on every holiday of every, single religion. Also, why was this never implemented for Jewish holidays a long time ago or Buddhist holidays, or Sikh holidays? Jews are often scoffed and sneered at when asking for their holidays off, and schools certainly do not close for them, even in heavily Jewish New York. And, yet, all of a sudden, at this particular time, Muslims are being catered to. If they want to take days off for their holidays, then, fine, but public school and closing schools for religious holidays do not mix. And, since church and state are supposed to be separate in this country, I often wonder how it is that they are even closed for Christian holidays.

    • Caveman says

      Mar 11, 2015 at 11:46 am

      “Then, they must close on every holiday of every, single religion.” I’m sure we can find holidays for every religion around so that basically children would never have to go to school. Owww wait; maby that’s the result they want…

  11. Islofob IS-1 says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    This is another advance of the “islam creep”, setting it’s feet into bedrock. Little by little, it advances into the west, with the help of the globalist elite, progressive movement.

    Do we want our way of life as it was, namely free of the laws and dictates of the enemy known as islam?

    The faith of islam is the enemy, it should be seen as only that, and we should act in the two way street terms with those who empower it within the gates, ones that were opened by the same involved .

    With us, or against us.

    The faith of islam must be rejected, in every way possible , do not invite in the thoughts and deeds of the followers of islam, for they follow the evil one.

    Why is this not OUR action, why are we going on the other, darker path ? ..

    http://clashdaily.com/2015/03/brass-balls-egypts-president-el-sisi-closes-27000-mosques-to-fight-terrorism/

    And why is this NOT reported ? Even if one thinks it’s the wrong way, don’t in anyway mean it is wrong…

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