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New York City Adds 2 Muslim Holy Days to Public School Calendar

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Wednesday that New York public schools will observe two of the most sacred Muslim holy days — Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

The changes to the school calendar, which already recognizes several Jewish and Christian holidays, fulfills a pledge Mr. de Blasio made during his campaign and represents the increasing influence of the city’s diverse Muslim community. The change will take effect in the 2015-16 academic year. » | Marc Santora and Sharon Otterman | Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Muslims in New York City Unite on Push to Add Holidays to School Calendar

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The meeting opened with a pledge from the podium to try to end, God willing, by the hour of the evening prayer. Clusters of colorfully veiled women kept watch over jittery young children. Rows of men conversed in a jangle of languages.

They were Muslims from Bosnia and Montenegro, Egypt and Syria, Pakistan and Bangladesh — several hundred in all.

It was a gathering remarkable in its diversity from among New York City’s Muslims, a growing group whose members often find it difficult to work together politically because of differences in national origin, language, sect and class. But a single issue has managed to unify them: the push to close the city’s public schools for Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, the most sacred Muslim holidays.

The issue might seem of modest importance alongside deeper concerns among many Muslims in the city, including the Police Department’s monitoring of their community since the Sept. 11 attacks. But the rally, held recently in a public school auditorium in Queens and organized in barely a week’s time, was a testament to how the city’s Muslim community is gaining a measure of political confidence. » | Sharon Otterman | Thursday, April 17, 2014

Bill de Blasio Wins New York Mayoral Election

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Former city official wins election to become first Democratic mayor of New York for almost 25 years


Bill de Blasio has become the first Democrat in almost 25 years to be elected Mayor of New York City, crushing Joe Lhota, his Republican opponent, by more than 50 percentage points, according to exit polls.

Mr de Blasio, a Left-wing city official who has called for an increase in taxes on Manhattan's millionaires, beat Mr Lhota, a former city transport boss, by 79-19 among women and 69-27 among men, according to the polling, by Edison Research for The New York Times.

"The bottom line is we have to get to work immediately," he said earlier on Tuesday, while casting his vote in his home neighbourhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn.

According to the surveys, which saw Mr de Blasio declared the 109th mayor immediately after polls closed at 9pm, he triumphed among every age group, ethnicity, income bracket and education level and even secured the votes of 43 per cent of New Yorkers defining themselves as conservatives.

The decisive victory was hailed by Mr de Blasio's supporters as proof that New Yorkers – struggling like many Americans to fully recover from recession – yearned for a radical departure from Michael Bloomberg's 12-year tenure as the billionaire pro-business chief executive of America's biggest city. Read on and comment » | Jon Swaine, in New York | Wednesday, November 06, 2013

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I guess that New Yorkers got tired of tyrants. Enough already! – © Mark

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