California State Assemblymember Democrat Matt Haney (L) and Supervisor of San Francisco District 5, Bilal Mahmood (R)./Image: video screenshot via @bilalmahmood/X. While Christmas and Easter are shunned for ‘winter holiday’ and ‘spring holiday’, California State Assemblymember for District 17, Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), authored a bill to establish two Muslim holidays as official state holidays that would allow local public school boards and community colleges the ability to close campuses. AB 2017, which passed the State Assembly with a 64-1 vote to advance to the Senate Appropriations Committee, would establish Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as official state holidays. Eid al-Fitr (Festival of Breaking the Fast) is celebrated on the first day of Shawwal, the month immediately following Ramadan, and marks the end of Ramadan….
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