D'oh!

Nov. 26th, 2008 11:02 pm
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Took a look at the SICM calendar.

Every Friday this month and next they're making holiday foods. (We can't make that anymore. I iz sad.)

They're making Christmas foods, and Hannukah foods, and Kwanzaa foods, and New Year's foods. They're missing a golden opportunity to make Diwali foods, but that's all right - they're making Eid foods! Yay! Multicultural!

Except... wasn't Eid, like, a few months ago? Not in the middle of December, as their calendar would suggest?

Why yes, yes it was!

It's like being back in the fifth grade and taking our multi-cultural weekly class and being told that Ramadan coincides every year with Christmas. Given that I'd just that month met a Muslim woman and had a long cheerful talk with her about the Muslim calendar I was *not* happy to be "corrected" for correcting the teacher. I'm still not happy - she shouldn't teach things she knows nothing about. But she at least had the excuse of not having Google and dealing with a smaller/less visible Muslim population than we have in NYC today.
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