Postal Muslim Holiday Stamp

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tee_eff_em said:
If it makes anyone feel any “better”, the conspiracy :cool: theorist in me says:

“…I wonder how difficult it would be for the post office to keep a database of addresses from and to which mail bearing these stamps is sent…?”

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:cool: Just remember: The black helicopters will be able to use the religious Christmas stamp to similar ends. :cool:

“I, for one, welcome our new Disgruntled Postal Worker Overlords*” :D,
tee
(* “Who can take my religious Christmas stamps when they peel them from my cold, dry, dead tongue” :p)
 
Stamps reflect the culture, heritage, and history of a nation. Whether those who choose to wrap themselves in asbestos blankets elect to believe it or not, the culture of our nation embraces and is inclusive of its peoples - all of them. This includes those who are of Arabic descent and those who are of the Muslim faith - just as it does those of other ethnicities, nationalities, races, and faiths. America would be the lesser for any of them.

As an American and as a philatelist, I applaud the fact that the USPS has gone beyond Gilbert Stuart portraits of George Washington and the monochrome lithography of its early commemoratives to showcase the myriad aspects that, together, are America and the American nation.

Many years,

Neil
 
I would rather see a nice set of Happy Holiday stamps in different languages rather than what I have to see in Australia

Ugh!
 
Maxply said:
This hits me a couple of places:

(1) I think the post office needs to stick to George Washington, etc., and not all the Bugs Bunny, cartoon stuff, etc. junk. Our coins and stamps and currency should have some dignity and tell the great story of our country.

(2) I think the muslim stamp is oddball just because there are so few muslims in America. But on the surface of it, we shouldn’t write off the idea.

I’ve seen the fancy script but have no clue what it’s about, other than EID, which I thought was some Irish thing. . .

(3) The Kwanzaa thing. . . I remember reading Arthur Ashe (the tennis player)'s biography, and he was a student at UCLA in the late 60s; for a time he was a roommate and friend with a fellow UCLA graduate student, who was studying sociology. As Ashe put it, it was always tough for him to “celebrate” Kwanzaa since the “holiday” was invented by his friend using a smorgasbord of African tribal customs!

So Kwanzaa has similarly never felt quite legitimate to me, since it’s a recent invention.
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The Eid stamp commemorates the two most important festivals—or eids—in the Islamic calendar. On these days, Muslims wish each other Eid mubarak, the phrase featured in Islamic calligraphy on the stamp. Eid mubarak translates literally as blessed festival, and can be paraphrased as May your religious holiday be blessed. This stamp is part of the Holiday Celebrations series
 
Eden said:
He’s referring to this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

It’s in response to the poster who said Jews don’t bomb people.

“On 22 July 22 1946, one of the most dastardly and cowardly crimes in recorded history took place. We refer to the blowing up of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem. Ninety-two persons lost their lives in that stealthy attack, 45 were injured, among whom there were many high officials, junior officers and office personnel, both men and women. The King David Hotel was used as an office housing the Secretariat of the Palestine Government and British Army Headquarters. The attack was made on 22 July at about 12 o’clock noon when offices are usually in full swing. The attackers (Jewish), disguised as Arabs, carried the explosives in milk containers, placed them in the basement of the Hotel and walked away.”
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The attackers informed the British before the bombing that it was going to take place, the idea being that they wanted the hotel vacated before the incident. Wikipedia itself reports that the information was leaked to the extent that there were already reporters at the scene before the bombing. The British didn’t listen.
The quote posted from the wikipedia artilce wasw released by the British House of Commons in response to the attack.
 
Valke2 said:
The attackers informed the British before the bombing that it was going to take place, the idea being that they wanted the hotel vacated before the incident. Wikipedia itself reports that the information was leaked to the extent that there were already reporters at the scene before the bombing. The British didn’t listen.
The quote posted from the wikipedia artilce wasw released by the British House of Commons in response to the attack.
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My post was in response to another posters confusion about the reference to the “King David Hotel”. You mentioned that the British were informed before the hotel was bombed. The IRA used to inform the British before their bombs went off, too.
 
kellie said:
Yep Myangel, I agree our Christmas stamps this year are nice.

I just dont know why Australia Post has to have images of Dame Edna, and Neighbours, and sports stars etc on them.

I prefer ones you posted, or flora and fauna.
Thats just me.
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Yeah Dame Edna is a little :nope: But I guess Australia Post is keeping all happy. There are those who like him/her/IT and those who dont agree with him/her/IT’s way of life.

But I was sooooooooooooo ecstatic to see Aust Post didnt go with the trend that seems to be ever growing here, taking Jesus out of Christmas. I love our stamps I think they are beautiful.
 
St_John said:
I think I’m having a hard time with this country changing, but when I saw a postal holiday stamp with Arabic writing, I felt very unhappy.
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I’m so sick to my stomach, call me a bigot, but I’m sick about this. There was also a Kwaanza stamp. They do have a nice one of Mary with Jesus. I like to buy enough of them to last all year. I know that things are changing and I don’t like these changes. 😦 Click the link to the Postal Service holiday stamp
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Wow, this post disturbs me. The stamp celebrates the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The text is most likely another name of God which they choose to represent in ornate script. In the christmas stamps that people like so much, everyone is looking mighty white! And talking fondly about a Lassie movie and making comparisons to the Holy Family? All of this is really disturbing to me.
 
tee_eff_em said:
What I find interesting/odd is that the $0.39 stamp on the USPS site looks otherwise identical to the $0.34 stamp (as it was introduced) on the Snopes page – I thought the post office tries really hard to make stamps of different values look dissimilar? (Hmmm, and the whitehouse shows an otherwise identical $0.37 stamp…?)tee
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They are selling them again, this time valued at 41¢.
 
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