What's wrong with "Merry Christmas"? (long)

[susanmcgee48176]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Goddlefrood" <gav_fiji at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Susan:
> > ..also Ramadan sometimes occurs on 12/25....
> 
> Goddlefrood:
> 
> Living as I do in a country with a significant Muslim minority, 
> and having been here for a good number of years now; also having 
> worked for a Muslim boss at one time, I have to disagree that 
> Ramadan could include 25th December, that is until around the 
> year 2040 or so by the Gregorian calendar. It is movable and 
> moves back by around 10 or 11 days each solar year. 
> 
> Basically, Ramadan includes 25th December for about three years 
> in every forty, hardly common. Besides that, the celebration 
> occurs when Ramadan ends, and what a celebration it can be.
>

You're probably correct. But I was running a shelter during the last 
time that Ramadan ran during December, when we were discussing 
holiday celebrations, which is why I mentioned it.

Susan