I CAN'T MAKE THIS UP - A MUSLIM SCHOOL HOLIDAY IN NEW YORK?

Late last month, The New York City Council passed a resolution asking Mayor Michael Bloomberg to add Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha to the New York Public School calendar. The non-binding council vote, which was opposed by only one councilmember G. Oliver Koppel, also recommends that the schools be closed to celebrate the two Islamic feast days. According to media sources, the vote comes as the culmination of a three-years lobbying effort by New York Islamist groups and what supporters such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations describe as “over 80 Labor and Community Organizations.”

The New York Times, in its July 1st story on the resolution, pointed out that:

"Supporters also say that since the Ids (pronounced eeds) are floating holidays whose timing is set by the lunar calendar, they often fall on other religious holidays, on weekends or during the summer. During the next decade, for instance, at least one of the two Ids each year is expected to coincide with summer recess or an existing school holiday, according to a report by the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University.

BUT, what the Times did not point out was that Eid al-Adha falls on Sunday, September 11, 2016 and Eid al-Fitr will begin at sunset on September 9 and continue to sunset on Friday September 10 next year.

The questions that come to my mind:
1 - Did anyone think that celebrating a Muslim holiday on the same day that the city suffered a massive terrorist attack at the hands of individuals professing their faith as their planes smashed into the Twin Towers might be a bad idea?
2 - What happens to someone who proposes a Christian-based day off for students in a Muslim fundamentalist country?
3 - What about a day off for Buddhism, Hinduism, atheism, etc?