Since 2006, a coalition of labor, faith, and community groups has organized to ask the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to close schools for two Muslim holidays: Eid al-Adha, celebrated this year October 4-6, and Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Muslim parents and children say it is unfair to have to choose between going to school and celebrating a holy day.
For years, despite overwhelming support from the New York City Council, the Bloomberg administration rejected the request. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that children should not have more time off from school.
But Mayor Bill de Blasio has repeatedly pledged to close public schools for those two holidays. Advocates for recognition of the holidays say that it's all but a done deal, and that they are talking with the DOE about how to make the change. Muslim leaders are buoyed by a mayor they say is more willing to listen to their concerns. Neither the DOE nor the mayor's office returned requests for comment for this story...So the city attacked on 9/11/01 by jihadis is soon to close its schools for the two Eids, thereby bowing to sharia law? And New Yorkers are okay with that?
That Mayor de Blasio is one big, fat dhimmi--and shame on him.
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