Empire State Building to go green for Muslim holid

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Empire State Building to go green for Muslim holiday

Oct 10 03:10 PM US/Eastern

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.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.

Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.
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JIMMY SAYS:THIS STINKS AS FAR AS I FEEL.

[wheezie]

Jimmy - it took me a long time to reply to this post because I don't like to get political, but if these Muslims are Americans by birth or by choice, why shouldn't they be afforded the same privilege as members of the Christian and Jewish faith to have the Empire State honor their holiday??? We need to be tolerant.

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WHEEZIE, WITH ALL DO RESPECT, YOU CAN BE TOLERANT FOR ME.

NOT ME, AS LONG AS MUSLIMS ARE KILLING OUR TROOPS AND THEIR WISH IS TO KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF US, MEN,WOMEN, AND CHILDREN.
THERE ARE MANY ISLAMIC TERRORIST SLEEPER CELLS HERE RIGHT NOW, WAITING TO KILL US.

JIMMY

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wheezie said:

Jimmy - it took me a long time to reply to this post because I don't like to get political, but if these Muslims are Americans by birth or by choice, why shouldn't they be afforded the same privilege as members of the Christian and Jewish faith to have the Empire State honor their holiday??? We need to be tolerant.

We cannot allow the Radical Islamic Terrorists to drag an entire race of people down with them. There are millions of peaceful Muslims living around the globe who abhor what is going on in the Middle East. Back in World War Two, not ALL the Germans were Nazis nor were ALL the Italians, Facists. (just my opinion)

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IT WOULD GO A LONG WAY IF WE HEARD SOME OF THOSE PEACEFUL (GOOD) MUSLIMS CONDEMNING THE ISLAMIC JIHADISTS
FOR THERE VIOLENCE AND THE WAY THEY TWIST THE KORAN.

LET SOMEONE ELSE BE TOLERANT OF THEM, NOT ME.
WATCH THIS TERROR SUSPECTS TAKING AL QUEDA OATH.

www.nypost.com/video/?channel=USA+News&clipid=899257&bitrate=300&format=flash