08-17-2008, 11:01 AM
Bismillah
as salam alykom
Although this is a local issue, thought to share it.
Beginning of this month, the public debated that the gov should postpone the beginning of the academic year just 10 days. Instead of starting it on 20th Sept because it will be only 10 days before they take Eid holiday after Ramadan ends. But of course the gov never takes public's opinion in consideration. Regradless of the mutliple issues related to this point, like people will be burdened with expenses of schooling needs, uniform..etc, Ramadan needs, Eid needs, leave alone the heavy traffic associated with Ramadan and Eid requirments. They claimed that they dont want Islam to be associated with laziness during fasting. The issue had nothing to do with this, it had to do with special circumstances that they had to take into consideration. But we have nothing to say except Alhamdulelah.