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Trump Breaks 20-year Tradition, Abandons Ramadan Dinner At The White House by konyenyamb(m): 10:22am On Jun 30, 2017 |
Donald Trump has broken with a two-
decade old tradition of hosting an iftar
meal at the White House during
the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The modern tradition was started by First
Lady Hillary Clinton, who hosted a meal
on Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of
Ramadan, in 1996.
Both Presidents George Bush and Barack
Obama hosted an annual iftar - the sunset
meal that breaks the daily fast during the
holy month - in their time in office.
The first, informal, White House iftar is
said to have taken place in 1805, when
Thomas Jefferson hosted the Tunisian
envoy to the US and announced in
invitations that "dinner will be on the
table precisely at sun-set".
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly
rejected a request by his department's
office of religion and global affairs to hold
an event for the holiday.
“It is disappointing because that’s been a
good tradition,” Imam Talib Shareef of the
Nation’s Mosque in Washington, DC, told
the magazine Newsweek of Mr Trump's
decision.
"To stop it doesn’t send a good message.
You get the chance to go golfing and all
this other kind of stuff. How come you
don’t have time for a population of your
society that needs some assistance? The
message that it sends is that we’re not
that important.”
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