Washington becomes first state to recognize Islamic holidays
Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a bill recognizing Islamic holidays as unpaid state holidays, making Washington the first state in the Union to do so.
Senate Bill 5106 adds Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to a list of 20 other state holidays, a list that still does not include Easter and Yom Kippur.
“This bill is historic. Washington is now the first state to recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays,” Governor Ferguson crowed on Facebook, according to the Daily Wire.
The bill was sponsored by state Sen. Yasmin Trudeau (D-Tacoma), who boasts that she is the first Muslim-American to serve in Washington’s legislature. A companion bill was sponsored by Rep. Osman Salahuddin (D-Redmond), a Muslim of Pakistani descent.
Plans to Islamize America
The new law aligns with ambitious plans by Islamic groups to gain power in the US political system. Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), unveiled the plans last year in a speech at the East Plano Islamic Center.
"There is Islamophobia [in the U.S.] that is so deeply rooted in the culture, in academia, in Hollywood, in the portrayal of Islam,” he claimed. “For hundreds of years, Islam has been denigrated, the Prophet has been smeared and defamed in books and textbooks that were taught in public schools, that Allah be praised, we have been working to eliminate and change.”
Awad revealed the organization's plan to create an “army” of 50,000 academics, journalists, and lawyers to create pro-Islam narratives.
“If we commit to do this, four years from now, the Muslim community will have 4,000 new journalists, we will have 4,000 filmmakers, 4,000 lawyers, 4,000 students of political science, 4,000 students of history,” he said.
Within the decade, CAIR hopes to start carving out a major Muslim presence in the US government.
“We can have in ten years, at least 40-50 members of Congress — in the US Congress.”
CAIR, which busies itself with accusing Americans of “Islamophobia,” has been a longtime supporter of Hamas. As early as 1994, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad endorsed the terror group. Last year, he cheered the October 7th massacre of some 1,200 Israelis by Hamas.
Awad and CAIR co-founder Omar Ahmad both have ties to Hamas through the Islamic Association of Palestine. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates designated CAIR as a terror organization for its ties to Hamas’ parent network, the Muslim Brotherhood.
