Irony in NYC: Empire State Building Lit Up for Ramadan
New York’s iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim Holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said. “This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah,” according to a statement.Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city’s tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.
Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.
An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States.
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October 12th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
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October 12th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
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September 5th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Look you all!!! You even don’t know what is real muslim life. Some motherfucking bitches, which are not muslims make terror acts that is ordered by america (as whole world knows this fact), and you say that muslims are idiots. this is very rediculus. I’m really surprized that the well-developed country like america still couldn’t catch this motherfuckin usama bin-laden. this is the 2nd rediculus think. so, go and think as a big person.
September 26th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
HAHA. I agree with max some americans are so fuckin stupid. u guys are to biased. u say that just because of 9-11 all muslims are bad. HAHA! FAGOTS!!!! ur fuckin wrong. when some faggot ass white guy like alot of americans think he is so tough and shoots up a fuckin school and 1000s of people die no one talks shit. but if its a MUSLIM guy rollin around with a gun “Oh MY GOD!” this is so bad all muslims are fuckin retarded. are u guys serious! americans cant even live with a non white president!!!! seriously i bet someone is going to shoot up some president cause he is non white. u guys are so biased. just cause some middle easterfn faggots blow ujp a building doesn’t mean all middle easterns are bad. what if a white guys caused it? huh? what would u guys say?? nuthin see!
October 19th, 2008 at 11:14 am
You are doing the same thing that you are mad about. Not all Americans feel the way you think we do, or think the things you think we think. I am quite aware that it had nothing to do with the Muslim religion as a whole.
and as for the “black president” thing…..I will be voting fo Obama and I think that if he were to get shot , it wouldn’t be because he is black.