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Reader comment on item: [The Need to Name and] Know Thy Terrorists
in response to reader comment: When is the last time an Islamic country celebrated christmas?

Submitted by Dorothy (United States), Dec 18, 2006 at 12:06

Eid is not the Islmaic equivalent of Christmas. Eid al Fitr is the end of Ramadan, the end of the fast.

By having stamps that commemorate a Muslim holiday, America is not pandering to Muslim nations, it is simply embracing other cultures and their traditions. Isn't this what America is all about? Wasn't America founded on the idea that citizens have the right to worship their God as they see fit?

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