GNN Op-Ed Trump Breaks With White House 20 Year Ramadan Tradition
Written by: Tony Smith
Ramadan wasn’t recognized in the White House with an iftar or Eid celebration for the first time in nearly two decades. A holy month of fasting between dawn and dusk, prayer and introspection for Muslims, Ramadan was observed from May 26 through June 24 this year. Muslims break their daily fast by sharing meals with family and friends before dawn and after sunset, referred to as iftar, and the end of Ramadan is celebrated with a three-day festival known as Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays. President Thomas Jefferson supposedly started the tradition in 1805 when a Tunisian envoy to the United States, Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, was in the U.S. during America’s conflict with the Barbary States. Mellimelli was observing Ramadan and Jefferson pushed the dinner back, and invited guests to join him for a dinner served at sunset. The establishment argues that Jefferson started the tradition, but Jefferson simply had respect for the Tunisian Envoy's religion, and rather than have the dinner with the envoy not eating, made a gracious gesture to push the dinner back. Ask yourselves why did the tradition not get picked back up until almost 200 years later when Globalists Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama who all had also recognized Ramadan. According to the Constitution the white house tradition is not unconstitutional, but in order for the first amendment to really be what its intent was no government entity should recognize any religion or religious festivals. This includes Christmas, Easter, and all other religious festivals.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; orabridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and topetition the Government for a redress of grievances.
With the White House breaking this tradition, in the view of this writer, is a move to put us back in alignment with the 1st amendment of the constitution. Of course the MSM used this to say that President Trump hates Muslims, and therefore killed the tradition, pardon the pun. This is just propaganda. Whenever MSM speaks out against something, it would probably be a good idea to support what the MSM opposes.
Ramadan wasn’t recognized in the White House with an iftar or Eid celebration for the first time in nearly two decades. A holy month of fasting between dawn and dusk, prayer and introspection for Muslims, Ramadan was observed from May 26 through June 24 this year. Muslims break their daily fast by sharing meals with family and friends before dawn and after sunset, referred to as iftar, and the end of Ramadan is celebrated with a three-day festival known as Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays. President Thomas Jefferson supposedly started the tradition in 1805 when a Tunisian envoy to the United States, Sidi Soliman Mellimelli, was in the U.S. during America’s conflict with the Barbary States. Mellimelli was observing Ramadan and Jefferson pushed the dinner back, and invited guests to join him for a dinner served at sunset. The establishment argues that Jefferson started the tradition, but Jefferson simply had respect for the Tunisian Envoy's religion, and rather than have the dinner with the envoy not eating, made a gracious gesture to push the dinner back. Ask yourselves why did the tradition not get picked back up until almost 200 years later when Globalists Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama who all had also recognized Ramadan. According to the Constitution the white house tradition is not unconstitutional, but in order for the first amendment to really be what its intent was no government entity should recognize any religion or religious festivals. This includes Christmas, Easter, and all other religious festivals.
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; orabridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and topetition the Government for a redress of grievances.
With the White House breaking this tradition, in the view of this writer, is a move to put us back in alignment with the 1st amendment of the constitution. Of course the MSM used this to say that President Trump hates Muslims, and therefore killed the tradition, pardon the pun. This is just propaganda. Whenever MSM speaks out against something, it would probably be a good idea to support what the MSM opposes.
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