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Jaw Dropper: Empire State Building to Go Green For Ramadan

2007-10-11

Islamic terrorists destroyed two of the tallest buildings in New York on September 11, 2001. Six years later, one of the remaining super-skyscrapers in New York, the Empire State Building, is going to go green for the Muslim holiday of Eid.

New Yorks 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 citys 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.

And of course, the last sentence is a CAIR-promoted lie. The Pew Research Center estimates the total population of Muslims in the United States at 2.35 million.

Posted by:mcsegeek1

#11 Imagine that you are on a subway train at 5PM during Ramadan, and the driver is a starving Muslim. He is weakened from 12 hours of not being able to eat or drink. All the protein nutrients have dissolved in his stomach, and the body is cannibalizing his muscle tissue, weakening him in the process. In addition, he is dehydrated and exhausted.

Worse scenario: the starving muhammedan is a pilot, as is his co-pilot.

Posted by: McZoid 2007-10-11 18:02

#10 I only hope the electrician is a rantburger and sets the green lights in the shape of a pig.

Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-10-11 17:11

#9 For kicks and giggles, some of the bulbs should be replaced with red ones. That should shake things up.

What color's do the Druids use? Let's be fair about this.

Posted by: Delphi 2007-10-11 15:44

#8 hope that some of the tenants 'forget' to put in the green light bulbs........

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-10-11 14:47

#7 I figured so, BH!

Well, pulling data from the Census website, here's the data as of July 1, 2006 (by race):

* TOTAL: 299,398,484
* Whites: 239,746,254
* Blacks: 38,342,549
* Amer. Indian/Alaska Native: 2,902,851
* Asian: 13,159,343
* Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander: 528,818
* 2 or more races: 4,718,669

Now, let's assume that most Muslims are Asians. Yet, I would assume the largest Asian blocks of immigrant groups are not Muslim (Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Thai, etc.). Add into that, the fact that large #s of other Asians (including former USSR republics) have recently immigrated, and I'd venture to guess that maybe 10% of the Asian population *could* be Muslim (Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Malay, Indonesian, etc.).

So, let's just assume that 10% of Asian immigrants are Muslim (that's just a shot in the dark). That gives you 1.3 million. Then, add in the fact that Arabs might consider themselves "White", let's add in another 50%. You're still only around 2 million. And, my gut tells me that's generous.

Of course, you have an up and coming Black-Muslim population too, but they're not *true* Muslims in the eyes of the faithful.

Posted by: BA 2007-10-11 14:35

#6 I think the real number is 3-4%. The GLBT Alliance has admitted inflating the numbers because 3% doesn't seem very important.

Posted by: SR-71 2007-10-11 14:25

#5 BA - hence I caveated w/"supposedly 6%" - Actually the MSM says 10% of all Americans. I got 6% from some source I heard O'Reilly & Boortz use. I'm still wondering what the actual # of muzzies is.

Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-10-11 12:22

#4 BH6: I'm sure you're quoting "MSM" sources on your gay thing, but it's not true. Otherwise, there's more than 18 MILLION gays out there???

That's more than NYC and LA combined. I call B.S. on that "statistic" too. Sure, they're concentrated in San Francisco, Atlanta and a few other cities, but even then, I'd bet that's only a few million at most. Even if ALL of Atlanta were gay (City Limits), that's only 450,000 or so.

Posted by: BA 2007-10-11 11:27

#3 "And of course, the last sentence is a CAIR-promoted lie. The Pew Research Center estimates the total population of Muslims in the United States at 2.35 million."

-do you think it's more or less? If it is 2.35M then we are accomodating less than 1% of the population w/this non-sense. Supposedly 6% of americans are gay, might as well have the ESB be draped in little rainbows for gay pride day or some such crap.

Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-10-11 09:33

#2 New York's equivalent of a giant 'Kick me!' note slapped on its back.

Posted by: WTF 2007-10-11 08:51

#1 They should just hang an illuminated bulls-eye near the 80th floor.

It would make the next targeting flight so much easier, you know.

Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-11 02:17

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