Cambridge High School to Get Islamic Holiday

Incredible.

As a Muslim and a high school senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 17-year-old Dunia Kassay faces a tough choice every year on Islamic holy days: go to school or stay home to be with family and friends.

If she stays home, Kassay says, she will be forced to play catch-up and make up her school assignments. But if she goes to school, she will be neglecting what she feels is her religious obligation on holidays such as Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting.

“It’s really conflicting,’’ Kassay said. “Instead of fasting for a month and enjoying this really big day, eating and going to family’s houses, it’s kind of like, ‘Oh, hey, guys, I’ve got to go do my homework.’ ’’

But beginning next year, Cambridge public schools will attempt to make it easier for Muslim students to honor their highest holy days.

In a move that school officials believe is the first of its kind in the state, Cambridge will close schools for one Muslim holiday each year beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.

The school will either close for Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adha, also known as the Festival of Sacrifice, depending on which holiday falls within the school year. If both fall within the school calendar, the district will close for only one of the days.

The school district’s decision, announced last month, was made as the national discussion about Islam continues, fueled by a Mosque proposal two blocks from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Florida preacher Terry Jones’s threat to burn a Koran. The discussion has also touched local schools, as Wellesley school officials drew criticism recently for a video that showed sixth-grade students kneeling during a prayer service at a Boston mosque during a field trip in May.

But Cambridge School Committee member Marc McGovern, who pushed for the Muslim holiday in city schools, said he thinks people need to take a step back from what he called hysteria and the stereotypes of all Muslims as terrorists.

“At a time when I think the Muslim population is being characterized with a broad brush in a negative way, I think it’s important for us to say we’re not going to do that here,’’ McGovern said.

Cambridge schools already close for some Christian and Jewish holidays, and McGovern said he believes Muslims should be treated equally.
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/10/10/school_system_to_get_muslim_holiday/

Equally? Bullshit. This is PC crap way over the top. Last I checked, we’re a Judeo-Christian nation, not a Caliphate. Tell you what, when Saudi Arabia or any of the other Islamic nation-states actually permit Christians and Jews the “opportunity, diversity, and respect” to build places of worship and freely practice their religion, or when the zealots who follow the “peaceful religion of Islam” stop killing the infidel in the name of their allah, then we might not have a problem with your muslim holidays. Until then, you can expect justifiable outrage at your Dhimmi tactics.

The Left’s perfunctory response to muslim atrocities is to welcome intrusion and bend over backwards to accomodate the religion of bat-shit crazy Islamobots.  Gawd knows they wouldn’t want to appear “Islamophobic”, or “characterize” muslims “with a broad brush in a negative way”.

Contact information for the Principal and the assclown who insisted on the holiday:
Main Office
459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 349-6630
Christopher Saheed, Principal 617-349-6632
Marc McGovern: marcmcgovern@gmail.com

Saheed. It’s a wonder they don’t have a minaret in the quad and mandatory prayers while facing Mecca six times a day.