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Muslim leaders ask for equal billing with Jewish holiday
by confuzzled dude Sun May 18, 2014 9:11 pm
Muslim community leaders in Montgomery County this week asked that the Islamic holy day of Eid al-Adha be given equal billing as the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur on Montgomery’s 2015-2016 school calendar.
They described the issue as symbolic but important.
In 2015, both holidays will fall on Wednesday, Sept. 23, but [url=http://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/9K2SMG6FC599/$file/Saqib Ali Testimony.pdf]a calendar draft[/url] does not give them the same weight. Yom Kippur — for which county schools will be closed — is listed beside the date. The Muslim holiday is included in a parenthetical notation: Eid al-Adha also falls on this date.
Muslim leader Saqib Ali asked at a school board meeting this week that the calendar be changed to say: Yom Kippur/Eid al-Adha.
“We need to see equal treatment,” Ali told the board. “Here is a case where, on a piece of paper — this is strictly a symbolic issue — but on this day when schools are closed, even on this day, the Jewish holidays are given sort of precedence or elevated.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/muslim-leaders-seek-equal-billing-with-jewish-holiday-on-montgomery-school-calendar/2014/05/18/4b8db16a-dae6-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html?hpid=z3
They described the issue as symbolic but important.
In 2015, both holidays will fall on Wednesday, Sept. 23, but [url=http://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/9K2SMG6FC599/$file/Saqib Ali Testimony.pdf]a calendar draft[/url] does not give them the same weight. Yom Kippur — for which county schools will be closed — is listed beside the date. The Muslim holiday is included in a parenthetical notation: Eid al-Adha also falls on this date.
Muslim leader Saqib Ali asked at a school board meeting this week that the calendar be changed to say: Yom Kippur/Eid al-Adha.
“We need to see equal treatment,” Ali told the board. “Here is a case where, on a piece of paper — this is strictly a symbolic issue — but on this day when schools are closed, even on this day, the Jewish holidays are given sort of precedence or elevated.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/muslim-leaders-seek-equal-billing-with-jewish-holiday-on-montgomery-school-calendar/2014/05/18/4b8db16a-dae6-11e3-bda1-9b46b2066796_story.html?hpid=z3
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