The Dearborn City Council, in the US state of Michigan, announced that it will grant municipal employees an official leave and close all its offices on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, making it the first municipality in the United States to grant its employees official leave on Muslim holidays.
Organized by the Dearborn City Council "Ramadan festival"which included activities in which fasting Muslims participated with other residents of the city, in celebrations described by the media as"historical" And it is the first of its kind in the country, according to Al Jazeera.
Join us for Mayor Abdullah H. Hammoud’s community breakfast to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday! ???? Pre-registration for the free event is required: pic.twitter.com/epmv0r3CVW
— City of Dearborn (@Dearborngov) April 3, 2023
According to the newspaper "Detroit Free Press" For the first time, the Dearborn City Council helps organize and support events for the month of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr, in a city where the population of Arab origins constitutes more than 47%, and the majority of them are Muslims.
The credit for these unprecedented events goes to Arab Muslim Mayor Abdullah Hammoud, who took office last year as the first Arab American Muslim mayor of Dearborn, which is home to one of the largest Arab and Muslim communities in the United States.
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