Dear Fairfield Community,

A growing number of Muslim families in Fairfield celebrate the 2 Muslim holidays of Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha. Eid Al Fitr is a holiday we celebrate to mark the end of the holy month of Ramadan where we fast in daylight hours. Eid Al Adha is about sacrifice and family.

Every year many Muslim students have to take a day off from school and miss their work to be able to celebrate their holiday. Others make the difficult choice of going to school and missing the most important days of their faith and community. Islam is the third largest religion in the United States and by 2040 is predicted to be the second largest religion in the US. It is the fastest growing religion in the country and its followers are not represented equally in school holidays. We would like to move forward with trying to propose Eid holidays in Fairfield schools. In Connecticut we already have many towns that have approved Eid as an official school holiday including the following:

New Haven
Bridgeport
Hamden
South Windsor
Manchester
Newington
Waterbury

The list continues to grow in our state and across the country. New York City, Philadelphia, districts in Virginia, North Carolina have adopted Eid as school holidays as well as other cities and towns across the US. We would like to get behind this energy with the growing community in Connecticut and add Fairfield to the list. We know the Muslim community and the entire community as a whole in Fairfield would benefit greatly from this initiative and it is a step in the right direction on our path of equity and inclusion. 

Please sign this petition in support of adding Eid Holidays to the Fairfield Public Schools. 

Sincerely,

Fairfield Muslim Holidays Committee:
Yousef Seyal
Mostafa Hassan
Sunila Fadl