U.S.P.S. STAMPS COMMEMORATE MUSLIM HOLIDAY

MUZ STAMPS

The stamps you see in the collage above exist, although they are not new, they are not a “Christmas stamp,” and they have nothing to do with President Barack Obama.

The EID stamp was a 2001 USPS Holiday Series stamp commemorating two Islamic holidays that have no connection to Christmas. It was introduced by the United States Postal Service (at the then-current 34-cent rate) as part of its Holiday Celebrations Series on 1 September 2001, just ten days before the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. It has since been reissued (with varying background colors) at updated first-class postage rates in 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and as a Forever stamp after 2011.

As the USPS describes the EID stamp:

The Eid stamp commemorates the two most important festivals — or eids — in the Islamic calendar: Eid Al-Fitr and Eid Al-Adha. On these days, Muslims wish each other “Eid mubarak,” the phrase featured in Islamic calligraphy on the stamp. “Eid mubarak” translates literally as “blessed festival,” and can be paraphrased as “May your religious holiday be blessed.” This phrase can be applied to both Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.

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