Empire State to go green for Eid
New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.
"This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.
Now, you would think a simple gesture treating a major Muslim holiday the same as major Jewish and Christian holidays are wouldn't be too big a deal. A nice gesture of inclusion for the seven million Muslims calling the US home, in fact.
You might think that if you were a rational individual without an irrational hatred of everything Muslim, which doesn’t apply to many of the right-wing blogs who linked to the story
Of course, anyone who has been following the blogstorm regarding the attacks on the 12-year old Graeme Frost doesn’t need to be told that these folks are really good at irrational attacks, (well, maybe CNN), but it’s always nice to get some additional confirmation.
Now these aren’t racist proto-fascists who hate all Muslims, honest. They’re just outraged because they think it is an insult and travesty to treat America’s Muslims the same way Jews and Christians are. There’s nothing wrong with that, is there?
