CAIR Demands School Closures in Recognition of Islamic Holidays

Posted by: Sam Wright Posted date: September 25, 2013 In: News



CAIR, the Council of American Islamic Relations, is making their case for schools in Maryland to begin closing in recognition of Islamic holidays. The school system, in an effort to be fair, has been monitoring absences of their students and found no trend around the Islamic holidays. However, when seeing increased absences during Jewish holidays, they added Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Standing in front of the Montgomery County Council Office Building in Rockville, Northwest High School senior Anhar Karim said he is one of many students in the county who have faced a hard decision related to two Muslim holidays.
Karim said that when a holiday conflicts with school, he can either celebrate and miss class or go to school and miss the celebration.
“We are forcing our students into an unreasonable decision,” said Karim, who is president of the Montgomery County Muslim Student Association.
Karim and other speakers urged Montgomery County Public Schools to close when classes fall on Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr during a Monday press conference held by the Maryland chapter of the Council of American Islamic Relations and the Equality for Eid Coalition.
Eid al-Adha celebrates sacrifice to God and falls on Oct. 15 this year. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan and was Aug. 8. The dates of the holidays change because of the Islam lunar calendar.
The coalition, which is sponsored by the council, formed about a year ago to pursue a long-standing goal for the school closures~BizpacReview

Due to percentage of Muslim citizens being fairly small in relation to the Christian and Jewish sects, the argument for school closures in recognition of Islamic holidays currently does not seem to be warranted.

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