[hina]

Eid Mubarak to all, may your day be filled with blessings, happiness and peace.

Also wated to share the below:

NEW YORK (AFP) - New York's iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid, the biggest festival in the Muslim calendar marking the end of Ramadan, officials said.

This is the first time that the Empire State Building will be illuminated for Eid, and the lighting will become an annual event in the same tradition of the yearly lightings for Christmas and Hannukah," according to a statement.

Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month, is expected to be celebrated in New York from Friday, depending on when the new moon is sighted, and the city's tallest skyscraper will remain green until Sunday.

Built in the early 1930s, the 443-meter-tall (1,454-feet-tall) Empire State Building was first lit up with colored lighting in 1976, when red, white and blue lights were used to mark the American Bicentennial.

An estimated seven million Muslims live in the United States

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071010...y_071010191023

[khaledamotheroftwo]

Eid mubark
THANK you for sharing the news...i wish i could see it do you think NBC today will broadcast that too? or had already?

[hina]

khaleda,I searced the websites of all major News networks and only found CBS and Fox News having a report on it. The info is the same as the yahoo article except the below lines that appera in the FOX article:

"Not many religious holidays make the cut. Green and red are used every year to mark the Christmas holiday season, and blue and white -- the colors of the Israeli flag -- are used for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
And the building doesn’t fire up its thousand-watt bulbs for just anyone. The “extraordinary number of requests” cannot all be accommodated, according to a building statement. Lighting up the spire for commercial products and corporate events is out, as is the commemoration of personal events like birthdays or anniversaries."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301541,00.html

Below are the link to the pictures that were taken from an office window:

http://www.paklinks.com/gsmedia/file...SB_EID_07c.jpg

http://www.paklinks.com/gsmedia/file...SB_EID_07a.jpg