The Ramadan Bill

Congressman Keith Ellison speaks on the floor of the House about the resolution to recognize the month of Ramadan.

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A resolution recognizing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and expressing the "deepest respect to Muslims in the United States and throughout the world" was adopted in the U.S. House of Representatives October 2 by a vote of 376-0.

The resolution acknowledging the importance of Muslims in America, the first of its kind, was introduced by Texas Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson and co-sponsored by 30 legislators, including Representative Keith Ellison of Minnesota. Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

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[acesscode]

more like kick you racist fuckers out of the country. I love america and love its freedoms. We don't need people like you in this country. If we have a muslium in the white house, so be it, they'll probablly do a better job then what we got now in the white house.

[totallybarefoot]

Best wishes for this Ramadan to all!

To our friends and neighbors of other religions, perhaps you will take the opportunity to fast for a day or a half day or a week or the whole month with us, or give charity with us, or just come to iftar break fast meals with us, and reflect on the similarity between our religion and yours. Christians have Lent, Jews have the High Holy Days. If recognizing our fasting season encourages you to recommit to your own religious observance, good 4 all.

[AlsheikhAhmedElhady]

Kudos Mr. Ellison

[shoedoctor99]

Great, this is good. We need more positivity like this. Happy Ramadan to all Americans and American Muslims.

[cjoseluisco]

@Augurae Well my dear friend if you are an European as you said you must Know as well that your language isn't german or you are not living in slavery because the racist and unjust United Estates.

[SirQubit]

John Adams, America’s second president, named the Prophet Muhammad one of the world’s great truth seekers alongside Socrates and Confucius. Thomas Jefferson, the country’s third president and the author of the Declaration of Independence, learned Arabic using his copy of the Qur’an and hosted the first presidential iftar, marking the end of the daily fast during Ramadan. The Founding Fathers also drew upon principles from Muslim civilisations, among many others, in fashioning the American system

[lahij]

all religion any one must first respect idlam, many year world never respect islam why why?

[mingalabaa]

@GGboy1987 Yeah you don't know about the south. So shut up.

[mingalabaa]

@apologiamixer You are the lier. The Quran doesn't twit about Jesus. It just doesn't supprort Trinity.

[mjconley12]

A fucking European lecturing us on racism and ignorance. That is priceless.

[apologiamixer]

What a joke for him to refer to Jesus. The Quran twists nearly every Christian doctrine and attacks the deity of Christ and His redemptive blood. They say in one breath they believe in Jesus (Isa) yet will not be baptized or submit to His teaching. Muslims are simply deceivers and lairs.