{"id":25510,"date":"2026-04-07T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=25510"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:59:52","slug":"lawmakers-push-for-official-islamic-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=25510","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Push for Official Islamic Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At IFA, we have prayed often and for years now about the rise and spread of Islam in America. Recently, however, lawmakers in some states have taken this insidious ideology even farther by pushing to formally recognize Islamic holidays.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Get prayer updates from IFA.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From American Thinker:\n<\/p>\n<p>AB 2017, introduced by Progressive Democrats Assemblyman Matt Haney and Senator Aisha Wahab, proposes adding Eid al-Fitr (Festival of Breaking the Fast) and Eid al-Adha (Festival of Sacrifice) to California\u2019s recognized holidays. If enacted, the bill would do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Authorize public schools and community colleges to close in observance of these holidays<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Expand the list of excused absences statewide<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Establish formal recognition of Islamic religious practices within taxpayer-funded institutions<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What is perhaps the most striking about this measure is that America is a definitively Christian nation. Even though our nation seems to have forgotten God these days, the Judeo-Christian worldview is embedded in every aspect of America\u2019s founding. So why would we welcome the holidays of other religions?\n<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, these holidays are hardly worth celebrating. As American Thinker notes, Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, involves the \u201critual slaughter of animals as a religious act.\u201d Around the world, Muslims celebrate this holiday with mass slaughter of various animals, creating \u201crivers of blood.\u201d Additionally, both holidays are explicitly religious. Why would a Christian nation, one that so often seeks to deprive Christians of the ability to worship freely, choose to instead honor the religious celebrations of Islam?\n<\/p>\n<p>As American Thinker puts it, California and America as a whole face a choice. Will we \u201ccontinue to expand official recognition of religious observances across an ever-growing spectrum,\u201d or will we \u201cpreserve our foundational values, our legal traditions, and the integrity of our public institutions?\u201d Let\u2019s pray that our lawmakers in California and beyond would make the right choice and choose to preserve our Christian heritage!\n<\/p>\n<h4>How are you praying about this issue? Share your prayers below.<\/h4>\n<p>(Excerpt from American Thinker. Photo Credit: Rumman Amin on Unsplash)<br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes At IFA, we have prayed often and for years now about the rise and spread of Islam in America. Recently, however, lawmakers in some states have taken this insidious ideology even farther by pushing to formally recognize Islamic holidays. Get prayer updates from IFA. \u00a0 From American Thinker: AB 2017, introduced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3130,727,1300,1319,2823],"class_list":{"0":"post-25510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-prayer","8":"tag-celebrations","9":"tag-islamic","10":"tag-lawmakers","11":"tag-official","12":"tag-push"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}