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Say Yes to a National Muslim Holiday

AB92 Wrote: Jul 20, 2010 8:44 AM
Arley, you started out alright and then veered off the road into the ditch doing the same idiotic thing that people in the West keep doing, bringing up Christianity and it was supposedly bad in the past. Every one of your points in that regard can be taken apart and shown to be meaningless especially with regard to the problem of Islam. On slavery - every single civilization in the world has had slavery, Muhammad had slaves, Islam took slaves from Africa and Europe, it actually calls for slavery in the Koran unlike in the bible where slavery is merely acknowledged as a reality of life at the time. It was Christians driven by Christianity who got rid of slavery in the West - and FORCED that change on some Muslim lands, but slavery...
Imam Khalid Latif, a chaplain for New York University and the New York Police Department, recently appeared on CNN. He suggested that the New York public schools should close for at least two important Muslim holidays each year. I could not agree more. Latif suggests that American Muslims are trying to develop their own contemporary identity as the religion of peace and tolerance. In his view, closing schools for major Muslim holidays would help that process since an Americanized modern and moderate Islam would benefit all Americans.

However, I would alter Latif's suggestion slightly. We should treat the various...

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