Do MUSLIMS celebrate thanksgiving?
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No we don't. But we don't mind sharing our neighbors & friends their festivals.\n\nHappy thanksgiving.
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I'm muslim - I'm not offended by christians wishing each other a Merry Christmas.\n\nMerry Christmas to all (when it comes...)
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Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
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This year, US Thanksgiving is on Nov. 23.
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Do we ask why Christmas is held at the same time as the pagan winter soloists. No one really know the date of the birth of Jesus (pbah) and so they picked a good party time so they would not have to give it up. Instead of making fun of Muslims maybe you could look into why things happen in Christianity. \n\nIf you can remember God told the Jews in the Old Testament not to eat pork too. But I know the Old Testament is just a guide and you can pick and choose what you what to do.
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No, Canadians have Thanksgiving too.
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Although there is record of earlier thanksgiving celebrations (most notably in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia), Americans trace their traditional Thanksgiving holiday to one celebrated in 1621. This celebration was held at the Plymouth Colony, now in the state of Massachusetts. The English Pilgrims who had founded the colony marked the occasion by feasting with Native American guests—members of the Wampanoag tribe—who brought gifts of food as a gesture of goodwill. Although this event was an important part of American colonial history, there is no evidence that any of the participants thought of the feast as a thanksgiving celebration. Two years later, during a period of drought, a day of fasting and prayer was changed to one of thanksgiving because rains came during the prayers. Gradually the custom prevailed among New Englanders to annually celebrate Thanksgiving after the harvest.\n\nColonial governments and, later, state governments took up the Puritan custom of designating thanksgiving days to commemorate various public events. Gradually the tradition of holding annual thanksgiving holidays spread throughout New England and into other states. During the American Revolution (1775-1783) the Continental Congress proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving following the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777. U.S. president George Washington proclaimed another day of thanksgiving in 1789 in honor of the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom, and many other states soon did the same. Most of the state celebrations were held in November, but not always on the same day.\n\nIn the mid-19th century Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey’s Ladies Book, led a movement to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. In 1863, during the American Civil War (1861-1865), President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day in order to bolster the Union’s morale. After the war, Congress established Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but widespread national observance caught on only gradually. Many Southerners saw the new holiday as an attempt to impose Northern customs on them. However, in the late 19th century Thanksgiving’s emphasis on home and family appealed to many people throughout the United States. As a distinctly American holiday, Thanksgiving was also considered an introduction to American values for the millions of immigrants then entering the country.
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I don't believe the Philippines could celebrate a "Thanksgiving" like the US.  If I remember correctly, Thanksgiving is a declared Holiday to commemorate the feast and celebration between the early pilgrims or explorers of North America and the native Indians that were originally here.  It wouldn't make sense for the Philippines to copy that Holiday as well unless there was ever a similar feast or celebration recorded in Philippines history.
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It's been a long time.  That's a muslim custom.  Call me names if you want, I'm just reporting the facts.  Of course they're wonderful people, just like us.
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Assamalu Alaykum Sister.\n\nI am also a convert to Islam, and my family is Christian. The family of my significant other is also Christian, and all of them do "celebrate" the "holidays." However, I do not think it is wrong to visit with your family during these holidays, or to accept gifts from them or to give gifts to them-- unless it is explicitly stated that this is a form of worship of Jesus. If your family is similar to mine, then the is probably no mention of Jesus at all when exchanging gifts.\n\nOur family are our most important links in this world, and if the holidays are an exceptional opportunity for you to spend time with them, then it cannot be wrong. When the Qur'an was first revealed, it was important for the believers to stay together, because there were not so many of them, and they had many enemies who wished them dead. Times have changed now, and I believe that Allah wishes us to honor our parents and family no matter what religion they choose. Family is the foundation of society, and we should not let our religious beliefs rip our foundations apart because of stubbornness.\n\nWhen it comes down to it, Sister, you must choose what makes you feel most comfortable. Allah does not wish hardship on us, so do not make more hardship for you than is necessary.  If you will feel pain because you are afraid of committing shirk, then do not spend Christmas with your family (please note the difference between the word "celebrate" and "spend"). However, if you are certain you can spend Christmas with your family without shirk becoming an issue, then do not give up your family because you think it will be more righteous.\n\nThis decision is entirely yours. You can seek guidance from anyone.. converts, Imams, friends, but ultimately, your decision will only be between you and Allah. Inshallah, you will do what is right for you.\n\nAnd Allah knows best.
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Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks (traditionally to God) at the close of the harvest season. In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.\n\nThe first known thanksgiving feast or festival in North America was celebrated by Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and the people he called "Tejas" (members of the Hasinai group of Caddo-speaking Native Americans) on 23 May 1541 in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, to celebrate his expedition's discovery of food supplies.[3] In the sense of a feast in gratitude to God celebrated by Europeans in North America, this has a claim to be the true first North American Thanksgiving.\n\nIn the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:
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The Turkish Independence day falls on Novv 29 0r 30 so they celebrate the day, just not for the same reason.\nTurkey is available in Turkey but the turkish people prefer lamb and chicken . Their cuisine is very  much influenced by the Ottoman rule on their nation.
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Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the 2nd Monday of October.\n\n"The farmers in Europe held celebrations at harvest time. They filled a curved goat's horn with fruit and grain to give thanks for their good fortune and the abundance of food. They brought this tradition when they came to Canada.\n\nDuring the American Revolution, Americans who remained loyal to England moved to Canada where they brought the customs and practices of the American Thanksgiving to Canada."\n\nMore information about the history of Canadian Thanksgiving:\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/ouravonlea/canadian-thanksgiving.html
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The roots of this holiday go as far back as 1621 when the Pilgrims who arrived in the New World from England celebrated a particularly bountiful harvest following a very harsh winter earlier in the year.  \n\nThanksgiving was originally intended to be just that – a day of giving thanks for all that we have been blessed with:  homes to shelter us, food to sustain us, friends and family to support us, and the freedom to worship and live in any way that we might choose.   I could tell you that this warm and fuzzy sentimental tradition is still carried out today, but I would be lying.  Thanksgiving has become all about the food, and it is viewed as the final hurdle we must cross in order to unabashedly start reveling in the Christmas season. \n\nThe Pilgrims were members of the English Separatist Church, and sailed to Holland in order to flee from religious persecution.  They did experience more religious freedom while there, but became disillusioned with the Dutch way of life, viewing their way of living as ungodly.  Eventually, the Pilgrims managed to strike up a deal with a London stock company, who helped to finance this pilgrimage to America.  Oddly enough, only about one-third of those aboard the ship (for those of you who don’t know it was called the Mayflower) were actually religious Puritans.  The remainder of the men on board were hired by the stock company to protect their interests.  \n\nSo as the story goes, the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620.  The Pilgrims were unprepared for the harsh New England winter that lay ahead of them, and by the following fall 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower had perished.  However, the harvest of 1621 was bountiful, and the Pilgrims decided to celebrate with a feast, including the Indians who had helped them to survive through that first year.  The feast lasted for three days, and did not include the traditional items we think of when we think of Thanksgiving dinner today.  The meal included wild duck and geese, venison, boiled pumpkin, fish, berries, clams, lobster, dried fruit, and watercress.  \n\nThanksgiving was celebrated off and on over the next few hundred years until it was finally established as a legal holiday by Congress to be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November every year in 1941.
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Hi,\n\nIsn't Ramadan more equivalent to Lent, than a national day of celebration?!? Both involving periods of change and sacrifice.\n\nPaddy's Day, although religiously linked, is an Irish holiday. Most countries have national days of celebration regardless of creed. Paddy's Day is celebrated by us Irish be they Roman Catholic or not...\n\nNot that I'm against spending the day in the pub, but I don't think its what St Pat had in mind ;)
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Unfortunately, I think they do but that's just from ignorant rednecks. Truth is, Muslim is a very peaceful religion (god knows how al-qaeda misinterpreted THAT one). I happen to have a lot of Muslim friends and even their families treat me like their own. Oh, and their food kicks serious arse! Never try the restaurant crap! Always go for the home cooked stuff! lol
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On a matter like this, we should only judge ourselves,not others.Each one of us is responsible for own doings/misdoings. Suppose it was your personal dilemma which you worded as the 'others'.In that case,offer thanksgiving that you are a person who sins and repents,sins again,repents again.It is a sign of God-consciousness.In due course, you shall be close to God and lead a pious life thereafter. May you be blessed.