Responding to petition, White House says Obama won’t announce Muslim holiday
WASHINGTON — President Obama supports a right of Muslim Americans to applaud eremite holidays, a White House pronounced Friday. He usually can’t give them a day off.
Responding to a petition on a White House’s “We a People” site
That’s since Congress has usually designated 10 sovereign holidays any year: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. “Proposals for new permanent sovereign holidays are typically a range of Congress,” a White House said.
The White House was stirred to respond to a petition after it perceived some-more than 100,000 signatures over 30 days.
“There is a vast race of Muslim people in a U.S and a dual holidays that are distinguished are not famous in calendars to symbol these special days,” a petitioners wrote. “Students are blank out on school, people holding time off from work, this is all since these holidays are unknown.”
The response to a petition came a same day as Obama sealed an executive sequence giving sovereign employees a half day off on Dec. 24 — Christmas Eve. It also comes as Obama has denounced dogmatism toward Muslim Americans following militant attacks in Paris and San Bernardino.
The White House remarkable that states, cities and propagandize districts can set their possess holidays, and that New York City schools famous Eid as a holiday for a initial time this year. And it pronounced that sovereign law requires many employers to make eremite accommodations to employees to concede them to applaud eremite observances.
Eid al-Adha celebrates Abraham’s eagerness to scapegoat his son for God;Â Eid al-Fitr outlines a finish of a Muslim holy month of Ramadan.