Last year I blogged about Muslims in Baltimore County, Maryland, demanding that Muslim holidays be added to the government school calendar.
Last week, school board members refused the request. From the article:
Baltimore County public school officials have said that adding Muslim holidays to the school calendars is unlawful and “irresponsible,” marking another setback in attempts across the region to add the holidays…School officials, however, stood firm by a state law that disallows public schools from endorsing any religion, saying the school calendar can include scheduled closures only for holidays that cause low attendance rates countywide.
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The anti-discrimination committee has pushed its request for the past several years, calling it an issue of equality because schools recognize Jewish and Christian holidays.
So it isn’t a matter of discriminating against Muslims. If followers of Allah become a large enough majority that schools are half-empty during Muslim holidays, the state may choose to close schools. Is it all about…economics?
Being the very opinionated person I am, my view (that the religion of Islam is incompatible with the West) is on the record . What’s yours?
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- Phyllis Chesler’s Islamic Education
- Holocaust Omitted From History Lessons
- In Defense of Virgil Goode
- A Religious and Unconventional War
- Gunpoint Conversions and Martyrdom
