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Is it offensive for a non-Muslim to wish a Muslim friend a happy Eid?

I confess that I’m fairly ignorant of Muslim culture as a Christian. A very good friend of mine has been recieving a lot of comments on her Facebook profile wishing her a happy Eid. I decided to wish her a happy Eid when we were getting off, but I’m not sure if it was a good thing to do. I know she won’t particularly be angry with me, but I’m just curious.

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kemmy offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 minute after post)

lol Theres nothing wrong with wishing her Happy Eid.

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PoetryVisualized.com offline Verified User (1 year, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 minute after post)

not at all

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RuleCandela offline Verified User (3 years, 3 months) Long Term User Shouts: 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (3 minutes after post)

i think its kinda awesome your like celebrating her culture with her. i do ramadan with my muslim friend

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (22 minutes after post)

Mas1st wrote:
We changed to Halal produce as my sons has so many Muslim friends at school and they like to come round and hang out here. Around here people mix their festivals according to their friends.

thats very nice of you :)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (27 minutes after post)

well yes… 1 must b tolerant to other religons and if i was a muslim i wud have loved my non muslim friend wish me..

i wish a lot of my muslim friends n they love it

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kemmy offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (28 minutes after post)

Its just the same as your friend wishing you a Merry Christmas.

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1 year, 1 month ago (52 minutes after post)

I remember I wished someone a Merry Christmas. Turns out he didn’t celebrate this holiday and he starts berating me and having this extreme tantrum. As he was screaming and cursing, completely out of control, I said “yeah dude, I can see why your way is better.”

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1 year, 1 month ago (1 hour after post)

One last thing that I couldn’t seem to find on the internet…
How is Eid pronounced?

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Coalesce offline Verified User (1 year, 1 month) Long Term User Shouts: 31 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (4 hours, 42 minutes after post)

Meh, I’m not Christian but I take it as a friendly gesture when people wish me a Merry Christmas. I don’t think they would take offense if you wished them a Happy Eid.

Now if you wished them a happy IED that would be inappropriate… very inappropriate.

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Sasquatch offline Verified User (2 years, 10 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (4 hours, 53 minutes after post)

Coalesce wrote:
Meh, I’m not Christian but I take it as a friendly gesture when people wish me a Merry Christmas. I don’t think they would take offense if you wished them a Happy Eid.

Now if you wished them a happy IED that would be inappropriate… very inappropriate.

Haha, good call, Coal.

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kemmy offline Verified User (1 year, 8 months) Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (18 hours, 36 minutes after post)

Anonymous wrote:
One last thing that I couldn’t seem to find on the internet…
How is Eid pronounced?

Ee-d (Like saying the E in “easy”, and D in “duh”)

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