City University of New York students are demanding the university system cancel class on May 13 for Eid Al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration of the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The largest public school system in the country is not the only one to add Eid to its list of holidays. In March, according to The Gazette, the Iowa City school board added Eid to its academic calendar as a day off of school. The change was made thanks to the efforts of a Muslim eighth grader who had lobbied for the change for three years.
The Philippines made Eid a government holiday in 2019 with a proclamation from the Malacañan Palace in Manila that the holiday would be celebrated “three days after the end of the month of fasting.” “I grew up in a town of 1,100 people, and there weren’t any Muslim people there then, and there aren’t any there now,” said Imam. “I don’t think the downstate farming communities are going to be able to all of a sudden handle an Eid holiday.”
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