{"id":48,"date":"2008-10-01T02:06:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T02:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/eid-alfitr-mubarak-redux.html"},"modified":"2008-10-01T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T02:06:19","slug":"eid-alfitr-mubarak-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/eid-alfitr-mubarak-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Eid al-Fitr Mubarak redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the<a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/daisy_khan\/2008\/09\/muslim_holiday_recognized_by_a.html\"> On Faith blog at the Washington Post<\/a>, behold the Empire State Building lit green for Eid last night:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/abde\/2904314343\/\" title=\"Empire State Building lit green for Eid al-Fitr by abde, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3211\/2904314343_88a9ae6df4_o.jpg\" alt=\"Empire State Building lit green for Eid al-Fitr\" width=\"228\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daisy Khan, executive of the ASMA foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/daisy_khan\/2008\/09\/muslim_holiday_recognized_by_a.html\">writes movingly<\/a> of what seeing the emblematic skyscraper lit in commemoration of the holiday means to her as a proud muslim-American. <\/p>\n<p>Street vendor Uighur muslims <a href=\"http:\/\/islaminchina.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/30\/eid-mubarak-from-islam-in-china-blog\/\">celebrate Eid in China<\/a>, Iraqis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/30\/AR2008093001322.html?nav=rss_world\">defy the violence<\/a> to celebrate in the streets, and Pakistanis <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapatimystery.com\/archives\/homistan\/chand_raat.html\">gather on rooftops<\/a> for moon-watching parties.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/7644659.stm\">BBC&#8217;s gallery of photos of Eid festivities<\/a> from more places around the world, from Saudi Arabia to the Philipinnes, from Afghanistan to Albania. &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the On Faith blog at the Washington Post, behold the Empire State Building lit green for Eid last night: &nbsp; Daisy Khan, executive of the ASMA foundation, writes movingly of what seeing the emblematic skyscraper lit in commemoration of the holiday means to her as a proud muslim-American. Street vendor Uighur muslims celebrate Eid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-this","tag-eid"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eid al-Fitr Mubarak redux - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eid al-Fitr Mubarak redux - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Via the On Faith blog at the Washington Post, behold the Empire State Building lit green for Eid last night: &nbsp; Daisy Khan, executive of the ASMA foundation, writes movingly of what seeing the emblematic skyscraper lit in commemoration of the holiday means to her as a proud muslim-American. 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