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To: epicure who wrote (211326)	12/31/2006 12:55:12 AM
From: Sultan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Right.. Actually if the moon is sighted, it is clear cut for both sunnis and shias.. Eid is on same day.. If the moon is not sighted in one country, there still may not be a difference.. The call could still be the same.. I guess what I was trying to point out was that Eid being on a different date is not a matter of faith or difference between sunni or shia on any theological grounds..

To: epicure who wrote (211326)	12/31/2006 1:40:26 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

So does this difference have to do with religious leaders of the various sects calling the date differently due to calculations of the moons phase? That's what I inferred from what I read in one article. I assumed that the head religious leader of the Shias called the moon sighting differently than the head of the Sunnis- or is that an incorrect inference? Sometimes the team in Saudi Arabia will see the moon so will declare the start of the holiday, but the team in Morocco (for example) will not see it, so the Saudis will start immediately while the Moroccans will start the holiday the next day. It's always only one of two days of the given month when the new moon should appear, but due to geography it may appear to one region on the first day and another region on the 2nd.