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I have seen the same thing. Books and stories about Kwanzaa, Yom Kippur, Ramadan, Eid but then nothing about Christmas or Easter because of it's religious component. I personally don't care. I don't practice any religion but immigrants want to continue to come into the country, they can assimilate to our schools and traditions. We should not change the majority of the kids who celebrate Halloween by dressing up because the newcomers don't feel comfortable. Go back home then.[/quote]

Why do you assume that non-Christians are immigrants?  Muslims were some of the earliest non-indigenous Americans, both due to voluntary and involuntary immigration.  Jews have also been here since colonial times.  Thomas Jefferson himself noted that the laws were meant to protect "'the Jew and the gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan."

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Thanks for the lecture, PC schoolmarm.  In reality, until about 20 years ago Muslims were a vanishgly small percentage of America.  You can go pull the census data for this if you are curious.[/quote]

Exactly. And PP never said the immigrants are non-Christian. But it is the new influx of immigrants changing many components of our county festivals, celebrations, and holidays.  No Halloween, no Thanksgiving, no winter parties or festivals.  But now we have off for Eid, soon Diwali, and next up Lunar New Year.[/quote]

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