Shana Tova (good year, happy new year...) and Ramadan Mubarak (have a blessed Ramadan) to those celebrating this weekend. Those greetings make me wonder why the SBA scheduled its retreat in a way that prevented both religious Jews and religious Muslims from attending, given the celebration of both Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan on this very weekend. Can we look forward to a future SBA trip to occur on Easter or Christmas?
Saturday, September 23, 2006
On heavier note...
Shana Tova (good year, happy new year...) and Ramadan Mubarak (have a blessed Ramadan) to those celebrating this weekend. Those greetings make me wonder why the SBA scheduled its retreat in a way that prevented both religious Jews and religious Muslims from attending, given the celebration of both Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan on this very weekend. Can we look forward to a future SBA trip to occur on Easter or Christmas?
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What else would expect from a white, Protestant dominated nation/law community?
I think we could all do with a little more awareness of the value of religion and faith, in its many varieties.
Thanks for speaking up, Hakim.
Maybe it is up to us to educate people and inform them of these dates. Sucks that we live in Protestantsville though.
I cannot help but wonder if the modern awareness, or lack thereof, of traditional religious (and secular, for that matter) holidays depends most fully on the individual holiday's impact on local and national economy. Or, in other words, when Rosh Hashanah or Ramadan have 4 to 6 month lead-times and entire sections of department stores and newspaper ads devoted to them, more people will know and reserve time.
So I'm not sure it is Protestantism per se (mainly because more than Protestants celebrate Christmas or Easter), that leads to this unawareness. Rather, American culture measures all by the yardstick of dollars. Until something catches the attention of Dollars - lots of them - it is not valued by the public as a whole. Even the two aforementioned religious holidays didn't used to have quite the attention they do now until a significant retail population latched their attention and hope to their predictable recurrence.
I would say that it has more to do with local economies. In cities with large Jewish populations, you tend to see a lot more businesses/schools shutting down on the day of, and heightened commerce the day before. Denver obviously just isn't one of those cities, and Boulder even less so.
all i can say is that they did not consider others,,then if somebody react, war is the next! my godness what is this..Lets have a little compassion to others..
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