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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 is based on the lunar calendar. As such, it moves up earlier in the calendar about 2 weeks every year. Ramadan hasn't been in December(ish) for around a decade, so at that time, you may have seen "Happy Ramadan" messages on TV like you saw similar Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Kwanzaa, etc.

And yes, Happy Eid (at the end of Ramadan - although there is another Eid that celebrates something different) is apropos. As for why the greetings at certain times, well, it's kind of like how Christmas season starts immediately after Thanksgiving (if not earlier). Early greetings and well-wishes are better early, than late/never.

Muslims don't care about lumping anything together, especially because they know the holiday changes depending on the year. It's just general niceness to acknowledge everyone in their appropriate times (which for Muslims, can be in the summer or winter depending on the year)[/quote]

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