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Muslim holidays test tolerance of US schools

Published: 04 July, 2010, 09:33
Edited: 12 September, 2010, 02:39


Two sisters greet each others after taking part in a special morning prayer to start their Eid al-Fitr festival, which marks the end of Muslim's holy fasting month of Ramadan, outside the Baitul Ma'Mur Mosque in Brooklyn, New York (AFP Photo / Jewel Samad)

Islam is New York's fastest-growing religion, with over a million Muslim students in the city's schools, but their holy days do not seem to make it onto the curriculum calendar.

 
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Srbin July 04, 2010, 11:43 quote
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Christian Mullahs will never accept Islam as equal religion, they accept Buddhism and that guy in funny robes cause it serves their interest in braking up China like they broke former USSR.

Niall Kilkenny July 05, 2010, 04:46 quote
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Moscow became known as the 3rd Rome when Constantinople was conquered by the Terrible Turks. This post will never make it because of the Muslims at RT. http://www.reformation.org/terrible-turks.html

sam hall September 12, 2010, 00:42 quote
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July 04, 2010, 11:43, Srbin wrote > Christian Mullahs will never accept Islam as equal religion, they accept Buddhism and that guy in funny robes cause it serves their interest in braking up China like they broke former USSR. I'm glad Srbin is rational & tolerants, and abstains from sarcastic, divisive, or derisive (I suspect he'll have to look it up) comments like "that guy in the funny robes". Incidentally, what do we want to "brake" China into? Democratic provinces, like Afghanistan, Chechnya, Viet Nam?

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