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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (353226)	10/3/2007 3:53:16 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1576819

Elroy, I suppose Ramadan will now become a month-long holiday for school kids? Ramadan isn't a holiday. Everything is normal but the Muslims can't eat or drink in the daytime. There is a 3 day holiday (Eid) when Ramadan ends. I imagine Muslims in the US would want to be able to take those three days in the same way that Jewish kids take off Hanukah (if they do - I can't really recall whether Jewish kids took Jewish holidays off from school - too long ago!).

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (353226)	10/3/2007 5:28:31 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1576819

The school district simply doesn't want to deal with the ACLU. Which kind of demonstrates how much power that group has. I didn't see it that way. I saw it as the problems which arise when a non-Christian group gets sizeable enough that it wants its non-Christian holidays recognized in the same way the Christian holidays are recognized. If schools are closed on Xmas when most of the students are Christians, you're going to get requests for non-Christian holidays to be recognized (by schools) when their members hit a certain percentage of the population. There's not much you can do to avoid that. I don't see what it has to do with the ACLU, other than that they may be the way the non-Christians express their desire for equal treatment.