{"id":3374,"date":"2014-02-10T07:17:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:17:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:17:27","slug":"new-york-mayor-announces-academic-holidays-on-muslim-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/02\/10\/3374\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mayor announces academic holidays on Muslim festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/amrican-muslims-students.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The New York\u2019s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced plans to implement a policy allowing public schools to be closed for holidays on biggest Muslim festivals including Eid-ul-Adha and Eid-ul-Fitr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Muslim holidays when Big Apples schools will be able to shut down are Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, The Daily Caller reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u2018Eid al-Fitr\u2019 marks the end of Ramadan and has no set date while \u2018Eid al-Adha\u2019 celebrated in the fall and honours Abraham\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his son on God\u2019s command. As part of the holiday, Muslims who can afford it are expected to sacrifice their best domestic animal (cow, goat, camel, sheep, etc., depending on the region).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Estimates of the number of Muslims in New York City vary between 200,000 and 1,000,000.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A website called A Journey Through NYC Religions to be 600,000\u2014roughly seven percent of the population.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Muslim groups like the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations applauded the plans.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dThe NYC Muslim community looks forward to finally having the Eid holidays recognized in our public schools.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It will be gratifying to know that Muslim children will soon no longer have to choose between honoring and celebrating their faith or missing class,\u201d said CAIR-NY Executive Board Member Zead Ramadan in a press release .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> The News Tribe<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York\u2019s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, has announced plans to implement a policy allowing public schools to be closed for holidays on biggest Muslim festivals including Eid-ul-Adha and Eid-ul-Fitr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c102-muslim-minorities"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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