Cambridge School Dist. To Observe Muslim Holidays
CAMBRIDGE (AP) ―Cambridge will close its schools for one Muslim holiday each year beginning next year.Hmm. Where are the "separation of Church and State" naysayers now? The school district yields to a small but growing minority group to add their religious days to the list of days off, and there's no comments whatsoever. The article doesn't state exactly what the "growing" muslim population of Cambridge is - that would be useful information to have - but it's hard to imagine that it could be a significant portion of students. Perhaps this would better have been served as an excused absence rather than an entire day off, considering the number of affected students.
The school will close for Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice. Which day schools are closed will depend on the holiday that falls in the school year.
I mean, it couldn't just be Cambridge trying to be more diverse, could it?
That is all.
16 comments:
Silly, Jay, it's "Church and State", not "Mosque and State".
Being self-righteous about the sacred penumbras of the First Amendment is only reserved for those that harbor a grudge that mommy and daddy made them wear itchy church clothes.
Selective outrage, it's not just for breakfast anymore.
Shootin' Buddy
Silly, Jay, it's "Church and State", not "Mosque and State".
Dammit, you took the obvious response first.
I fully expect the school district to also take days off for Rosh Hashanah, Sri Krishna Janmastami, and of course Samhain.
I doubt the students care. A day off from school is a day off from school, whether for Christmas or Cthulu's birthday.
But I thought only Atheism was allowed to be celebrated in Cambridge?
Chris in Texas:
When IS Cthulu's birthday?
I want to mark my calendar for next year.
Cthulu's birthday...
I want to be celebrating that.
And some pagan holidays, one for Pan at least.
Oh, and one for the Norse Gods.
And let's not forget the Greek and Roman Pantheon.
This is all the proof I need that the Muzzies have completely taken over America! Throw all of the sand worshippers and their commie athiest friends out! THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION!!
"The school district yields to a small but growing minority group to add their religious days..."
Uh, my public school had religious holidays off every year and was closed weekly on the day of worship...
"Throw all of the sand worshippers and their commie athiest friends out! "
I'm an atheist.
I dare your punk ass to come throw me out.
Tam,
I'd wager that, unless you grew up in a very specific enclave, the vast majority of students were of a Christian background.
Giving the day off benefits a large majority of the students in that case, no?
What percentage of Cambridge, MA students do you think are muslims? Even if it's ten times the average for the US, that's not even 10% of students...
"What percentage of Cambridge, MA students do you think are muslims?"
If they want to be all PC and multi-culti in Cambridge, what skin is that off my nose? I don't really care if they give Earth Day off to worship Gaia; they're that far out of the mainstream of American society...
I wonder what the school holidays are like in Dearborn, MI, or the South Side of Chicago?
(And, yes, my school district was as WASPy as they come. I had a Jewish friend, a Catholic friend, and a Black friend growing up, but 95% of the student body was white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant.)
The only overtly Christian holiday my kids have off school is the Monday after Easter (which is stretching it, frankly, as that's not a holy day). This is unchanged from when I was in school, with the exception that "winter break" was called "Christmas break" up until about junior high. (Given that it was a 2-week-long break which also included the completely secular New Year's Day, one can argue whether it was really religious.)
I'm actually okay with having school holidays of local importance. We get one every year for Battle of Flowers, and in Hawaii they took off for King Kamehameha's birthday. But those aren't religious either.
Sunday?
Ah, yes ... King Kamehameha.
Known as the Unification King because he forced the warriors of the O'ahu tribe off the Pali at spearpoint.
Nice guy.
And meanwhile, the right-wing has a collective freakout.
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