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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]June 28 or 29. Very happy month of fasting during the day, and breaking the fast together with family and friends after sunset. Happy Ramadan is perfect. At the end, you can say Happy Eid.[/quote]

Ok.

Take this as a non-snark post.

If Ramadan is in the summer, and its purpose is atonement, and Eid is the celebration at the end of the fast, also in the summer, then why was the media and the PC folks so strongly pushing "Happy Ramadan" during the Hannukah and Christmas holiday season?

Isn't wishing Happy Ramadan the equivalent to wishing someone Happy Lent? Makes no sense as the religious part of the holiday is of a serious, introspective nature and not at all celebratory.

Wouldn't the better greeting be "Happy Eid" and reserved for after Ramadan? At least that is what my Pakistani neighbor told me...that Eid is the "happy" part NOT Ramadan.

And don't muslims feel like it is weird and disengnuous for the whole lumping Ramadan, Hannukah and Christmas altogether as one big happy winter holiday, especially since it occurs during the summer months?[/quote]

Ramadan moves. I'm always happen when it is in the summer as my Muslim students were usually too hungry to focus when it falls during the school year.[/quote]

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