Under the proposed bill, public schools and community colleges in California could close in observance of the holidays, and they would be added to the list of required excused absences for students<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Hayden Cunningham<\/p>\n\n\n\n The California<\/a> State Legislature has introduced a bill that would designate the Muslim<\/a> holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state-recognized holidays. In a video announcement, Haney commented on the proposal with Muslim-inspired music playing in the background. The video began with him saying \u201cRamadan mubarak, everyone,\u201d before arguing that Muslim students and workers in California are being \u201cforced\u201d to miss \u201cone of the most holy days\u201d for them. What was interesting is that Washington already did this. Is Colorado next? https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/california-moves-to-recognize-muslim-celebrations-eid-al-fitr-eid-al-adha-as-official-state-holidays Under the proposed bill, public schools and community colleges in California could close in observance of the holidays, and they would be added to the list of required excused absences for students By Hayden Cunningham The California State Legislature has introduced a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16232,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions\/16232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"California](\"https:\/\/mr.cdn.ignitecdn.com\/client_assets\/thepostmillennial_com\/media\/picture\/69b5\/d790\/6c21\/5298\/5613\/ad53\/content_Untitled_Design_-_2026-03-14T143615.279.jpg?1773524881\")
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The bill was officially introduced last month by Assemblyman Matt Haney and formally announced this week. If passed, California would become the second state in the country to recognize these holidays, after Washington<\/a>.
Eid al-Fitr, or the \u201cFestival of Breaking the Fast,\u201d marks the end of Ramadan. Eid al-Adha, the \u201cFestival of Sacrifice,\u201d takes place about two months later and coincides with the end of Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
Under the proposed bill, public schools and community colleges in California could close in observance of the holidays, and they would be added to the list of required excused absences for students. State employees would be permitted to use eight hours of existing leave to observe them. The days would not, however, be designated as judicial holidays, meaning courts would remain open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is how we show, truly, that we are inclusive, that we value diversity, we celebrate diversity, and that our muslim neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, are fully included and able to celebrate without consequence the most holy day for them,\u201d Haney said.
Heaney was joined by Bilal Mahmood, the first Muslim American supervisor in San Francisco. Mahmood said that the proposal \u201cmeans a lot\u201d to the thousands of Muslims in the city.
\u201cWith this Bill AB 2017, we will have Eid as a state holiday so they can see their values and their beliefs and their culture represented in ink,\u201d Mahmood said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"