Is USPS stamp honoring Islamic holiday EID a bad idea?
(NOTE: This posting is a reaction to an email. See the original email at the bottom of the posting.)
First, the email states that the post office is creating a "Christmas stamp" to honor Islam. This is not true. EID is an Islamic holiday that happens to fall around the same time as Christmas.
Second, posting the 10 commandments on federal property has nothing to do with stamps. There have been Christmas and Hannukah stamps around for years. To say that giving Islam a stamp is in some way favoring the Islamic religion over Christianity doesn't seem to make sense.
Now, a series of my own "Remembers..."
Remember
The holiday EID is about giving thanks to God for helping Islamics in their expression of spiritual devotion after a month of fasting. To show their thanks to God, many muslims offer food to those in need.
Remember:
In the year following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI director launched 360 separate investigations into threats and attacks against Muslim, Sikh and Arab Americans.
Remember:
In the year following 9/11 there were 1,717 hate crimes reported against Muslims.
Remember:
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in this country and around the world.
Remember:
There are already an estimated 7 million Muslims in America.
Remember:
There are 10's of thousands of Muslims serving in the American military fighting against terrorism.
Remember:
President Bush said, "Islam is peace, and the United States is not against the religion of Islam."
Remember:
It was not so long ago that people who called themselves "Christians" carried out the atrocities during the crusades.
"The Crusaders cut open the stomachs of the dead because someone said that the Muslims sometimes swallowed their gold to hide it. Later, when the corpses were burned, Crusaders kept watch for the melted gold that they expected to see flowing onto the ground. While the slaughter was still going on, many churchmen and princes assembled for a holy procession. Barefoot, chanting and singing, they walked to the shrine of the Holy Sepulchre through the blood flowing around their feet." excerpted from an article on HistoryNet.com
I suspect that most Christians at the time, and certainly today would not have agreed with actions taken in the crusade. Just as it is unfair to judge all or even most Christians by these actions, it is equally unfair and unjust to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few on 9/11 or the continuing actions of radicalists that happen to subscribe to the religion of Islam.
In summary:
If we are going to honor some religions in our country by using postal stamps, there is no reason why Islam should not be included.
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Snopes.com says it is true!!!!
First, the email states that the post office is creating a "Christmas stamp" to honor Islam. This is not true. EID is an Islamic holiday that happens to fall around the same time as Christmas.
Second, posting the 10 commandments on federal property has nothing to do with stamps. There have been Christmas and Hannukah stamps around for years. To say that giving Islam a stamp is in some way favoring the Islamic religion over Christianity doesn't seem to make sense.
Now, a series of my own "Remembers..."
Remember
The holiday EID is about giving thanks to God for helping Islamics in their expression of spiritual devotion after a month of fasting. To show their thanks to God, many muslims offer food to those in need.
Remember:
In the year following the 9/11 attacks, the FBI director launched 360 separate investigations into threats and attacks against Muslim, Sikh and Arab Americans.
Remember:
In the year following 9/11 there were 1,717 hate crimes reported against Muslims.
Remember:
Islam is one of the fastest growing religions in this country and around the world.
Remember:
There are already an estimated 7 million Muslims in America.
Remember:
There are 10's of thousands of Muslims serving in the American military fighting against terrorism.
Remember:
President Bush said, "Islam is peace, and the United States is not against the religion of Islam."
Remember:
It was not so long ago that people who called themselves "Christians" carried out the atrocities during the crusades.
"The Crusaders cut open the stomachs of the dead because someone said that the Muslims sometimes swallowed their gold to hide it. Later, when the corpses were burned, Crusaders kept watch for the melted gold that they expected to see flowing onto the ground. While the slaughter was still going on, many churchmen and princes assembled for a holy procession. Barefoot, chanting and singing, they walked to the shrine of the Holy Sepulchre through the blood flowing around their feet." excerpted from an article on HistoryNet.com
I suspect that most Christians at the time, and certainly today would not have agreed with actions taken in the crusade. Just as it is unfair to judge all or even most Christians by these actions, it is equally unfair and unjust to judge all Muslims by the actions of a few on 9/11 or the continuing actions of radicalists that happen to subscribe to the religion of Islam.
In summary:
If we are going to honor some religions in our country by using postal stamps, there is no reason why Islam should not be included.
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Snopes.com says it is true!!!!
CHRISTMAS STAMP
How ironic is this??!! They don't even believe in Christ and they're getting their own Christmas stamp, but don't dream of posting the ten commandments on federal property? 
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USPS New Stamp
This one is impossible to believe. Scroll down for the text.
If there is only one thing you forward today.....let it
be this!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of PanAm
Flight 103!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the World
Trade Center in 1993!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the Marine
barracks in Lebanon!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the military barracks in Saudi Arabia!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the American Embassies in Africa!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM bombing of the USS COLE!
REMEMBER the MUSLIM attack on 9/11/2001!
REMEMBER all the AMERICAN lives that were lost in those vicious MUSLIM attacks!
Now the United States Postal Service REMEMBERS and HONORS the EID MUSLIM holiday season with a commemorative first class
holiday postage stamp.
REMEMBER to adamantly and vocally BOYCOTT this stamp when purchasing your stamps at the post office.
To use this stamp would be a slap in the face to all those AMERICANS who died at the hands of those whom this stamp honors.
REMEMBER to pass this along to every patriotic AMERICAN you know!!
posted by Nathan | 11:06 AM
2 Comments:
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You are absolutely right. It is absolutely incredible to me the way, since 9/11, bigotry and hatred have become a new and accepted form of patriotism. If we choose not to hate, does this make us un-American? It seems to me that the people who are behind these types of emails (who are they? don't they have jobs? is this what they do all day?)have never taken the time to read our Constitution, let alone the BILL OF RIGHTS, both of which they claim to be defending by spewing hatred and ignorance.
Our forefathers specifically made a point of including Freedom of Religion in the founding documents of this country. This means any religion. Where was the uproar in the eighties and nineties when Christians were bombing abortion clinics in the name of Jesus Christ?
And what kind of an idiot assumes that Islamists are asking for a CHRISTMAS stamp? Yes, they are around the same time, but it is not their "Christmas." Pick up a copy of the Koran, or, in fact, pick up a copy of the Bible and actually READ it. No widespread violence in the name of Jesus in there, is there?
Good for you and your blog, Nathan!
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