Indoctrinating Our Kids: Muslim Holidays Now Being Added to New York City School Calendar

by Warner Todd Huston | March 4, 2015 3:33 pm

New York’s Communist Mayor Bill de Blasio has now announced that the city’s school calendar will now include Muslim holidays.

The mayor made his announcement[1] on Wednesday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced this morning that the Muslim holidays of Eid al-Adha and al-Fitr have been added to the NYC public school schedule, calling it “a change that respects the diversity of our city.”

During the Bloomberg administration, the City Council approved adding the holidays, but Mayor Bloomberg was against the measure, saying in 2008, “The truth of the matter is we need more children in school. More, not less,” and “When you have a city as diverse as we do, with virtually every religion known to man practiced, if we closed school for every single day there wouldn’t be any school.”

Before he took office, de Blasio had voiced his support of adding Muslim holidays to the school calendar (FWIW, Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota agreed). Earlier this year, Lunar New Year was officially approved as a school holiday.

When is national beheading day, anyway?

Endnotes:
  1. his announcement: http://gothamist.com/2015/03/04/muslim_holidays_nyc_school.php

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