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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is Eid?? [/quote]

Short version is it's the major Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.  Apparently as the date approaches the timeline gets more dialed-in based on exactly when the moon is at a certain point and is visible and determined.  Both APS and LCPS are adjusting trying to be as correct and respectful of the Muslim community as possible.  There's been some discord in APS discussions that different components of the Muslim community might actually celebrate on different days based on interpretations, but this isn't fixing something because of a "screw up".

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There is no discord. Muslims don’t care. I am one of the Muslims that posted on Arlington Education Matters. Most mosques in the area go with the fiqh council of North America which determines eid via calculations. Those calculations determine Eid years snd decades in advance.  https://fiqhcouncil.org/calendar/

Most Muslims in the area will follow their local mosques. Many recent immigrants including me may end up following what their country of origin does. But either way it doesn’t matter because Eid is a three day holiday. If we get one day off whether it’s a Monday or Tuesday we will be happy. Most Muslims I spoke to we’re wondering how APS came up with Tuesday (because the in advance calculation method says it’s a Monday but were happy they were getting a day off for eid. By the way even for Muslims who follow their country of origin, most likely the start of eid will be the same as the start of eid in the calculation method. It’s just that most countries won’t announce the eid holiday in advance and so people who follow their country of origin usually will know a day in advance.[/quote]

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