Weekly holidays
Our government again missed a perfectly good opportunity to declare Saturday-Sunday holiday. It seems certain "fundamentalist" elements in the coalition always try to twist the government into making such unhealthy business decisions. This would also account for why almost a month after 400 bomb blasts the master-planners are still scot-free.
This government's shortsighted-ness will eventually lead our beautiful country into more poverty. These three days of effective holiday per week are a bit too much for our economy to handle. More than 30 years have gone by, but our leaders seemed to have learned nothing. Their only concern seems to be cheap popularity and filling up their pockets.
I want to ask two questions:
1. Were we "less Muslims" in pre-Ershad days when there was a Sunday holiday?
2. Are folks in Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Brunei any "less Muslims" than we are where they have Sunday holiday?
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