Muslim Holidays… Another Dilemma For Our Country?
By BARBARA SIMPSON Americans are used to seeing varied federal and state holidays noted on their annual calendars. Most are secular holidays, but there are some that aren’t — Easter and Christmas, for example — but those are holidays that are celebrated generally across the country. As a result, at this point, there isn’t much controversy about them.Here are, however, other holidays that are beginning to be seen and certainly talked about — holidays that may raise some hackles. Those are Muslim holidays. I suspect the average, non-Muslim American has never thought about them, but Muslims have; they do have their holidays and they want them recognized.One area that is seeing pressure to include Muslim holidays on calendars involves our…Continue Reading