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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/on-religious-holidays-montgomery-school-board-offers-a-lesson-in-intolerance/2014/11/13/d0b58c72-6b60-11e4-b053-65cea7903f2e_story.html

Did anyone read this article from the Wash Post? It's a really good sum-up.

"Those parents have been asking for years — without success — to have at least one of their two major holidays recognized. Then they realized that Montgomery schools will be closed on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015, because it’s Yom Kippur. That happens to be the same day as Eid al-Adha.

So the Muslim parents asked the school to simply add the name of their holiday to the school calendar. Instead of saying, “Hmm, interesting,” the school board wigged out and voted to eliminate all names of religious holidays from the calendar."

Again, I'm an American, a Muslim, a mom, a room mother at my MCPS school,  and a physician in this area. I feel like I serve my community every day. I am deeply saddened to see the hatred and ignorance on this thread,

I wonder if anyone would say these things to my face - or if, in the situation where I am helping their child's teacher - or helping them in a medical emergency - if at that moment, [b]it's ok that I'm brown.[/b]..[/quote]

Frankly, no one cares if you are brown!  we do care that many in your religion hate everyone else and would kill us in a heartbeat if given the opportunity-yu and I both know that if a bunch of Jews or Christians pulled this in the Mibble easwt they would be jailed or shot!  That is the sad reality-the Muslims should be greatful they are living in our free country and not try to turn it into the same mess they fled from.  Assimilate, or do your own thing and shut up is my motto.  Dearborn Michigan is a disaster zone thanks to the US giving the Muslims too much power.  We do not want to live in the Middle East just as much as you do not want to live there-we definitely do not want to turn our country into a model of Saudi Arabia![/quote]

You're wrong. You're wrong, You're wrong, You would find that in most muslim countries, even countries with a fair amount of extremism, which is NOT Islam (but may be a product of our American international policies of the past)), Christians and Jews and Hindus are respected and their holidays would be considered. I have tons of family in Pakistan - my cousin's school has Christmas off as "Christmas" to acknowledge the holiday of the minority Christian students.

So, my friend, try learning about the Muslim world from something beyond CNN/Fox news, which only sensationalize extremism.[/quote]
My friend, my friend, let's please stop talking in personal anecdotes about your cousins' international school in Pakistan, my Chaldean ancestors and currently dispersed family would beg to differ.[/quote]

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