It was one thing to wish Muslims a “Ramadan Mubarak” (“Blessed Ramadan”), akin to “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Easter.” It is quite another for Governor Josh Stein of North Carolina, where Muslims make up 1% of the population, apparently to tell everyone in the state that they should observe Ramadan in precisely the way that Muslims do. We are mercifully finished with Ramadan proclamations for this year, but Stein’s should not be forgotten. More on his flabbergasting proclamation can be found here: “Not Just a Holiday: Why Stein’s Ramadan Proclamation Is So Controversial,” by Sloan Rachmuth, NC Political Tea, March 19, 2026:
Last month, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein dropped a jaw-dropping proclamation declaring February 17 through March 19, 2026, as Ramadan in the Tar Heel State.
The official wording is crystal clear and deeply troubling: “Now, Therefore, I, Josh Stein, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim February 17 – March 19, 2026, as ‘Ramadan’ in North Carolina, and commend its observance to all residents.”
This isn’t some benign nod to a minority community.
The proclamation’s language specifically urges non-Muslims to observe Ramadan, a full month of religious fasting and Quran study straight out of Sharia law, a system totally at odds with American freedom and the separation of mosque and state.
This isn’t harmless cultural recognition.
It’s the state of North Carolina officially pushing participation in a foreign religious obligation complete with strict rules and brutal punishments.
Just look at how Stein handles other heritage months. His Black History Month proclamation commends “its observance to all residents.” Same boilerplate for American Indian Heritage Month and Hindu Heritage Month and Diwali: “commend its observance to all citizens.”
These are fine. They’re about history, contributions, and voluntary reflection. No one is expected to fast, pray, or study religious texts. No foreign legal code is involved.
Ramadan is something else entirely. It’s one of the five pillars of Islam.
For a month, observant Muslims must go without food, water, smoking, or sex from dawn to sunset while ramping up prayers and intense Quran study.
Stein’s proclamation doesn’t just acknowledge the Muslim community, it “commends its observance to all residents.” That’s code for encouraging everyone, including Christians, Jews, Hindus, atheists, and secular folks, to take part in a religious ritual rooted in Sharia.
In countries that actually follow Sharia — Iran, Saudi Arabia, parts of Malaysia — breaking the religious fast publicly gets you arrested, fined, jailed, flogged, or worse….
In New York City, mosques are now blasting the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers across entire neighborhoods during Ramadan….
Apparently hundreds of thousands of non-Muslim New Yorkers are awakened in the early hours of the morning, before daylight, by electronically amplified calls to prayer. These calls to prayer are completely unnecessary. Even Muslim can easily program his watch or phone or computer to vibrate or issue a quiet reminder when the time for each of the five daily prayers comes round. The explosive sound of the muezzin’s amplified azan (call to prayer) continues, quite unnecessarily, as a sign of Muslim power and dominance: We are here. We can wake up everyone. We are in your face and in the public space. Nothing will stop us.
True tolerance means respecting [sic] the Muslim community without surrendering public spaces and official state recognition to a faith with coercive rules and a clear expansionist agenda.
There is no need to “respect” the Muslim community. It can be recognized, which is a different thing. Why should non-Muslims “respect’ a faith that says they are “the most vile of created beings”?
Members of the North Carolina State Assembly should criticize the Governor for his declaration on Ramadan. He needs to be reminded that the establishment clause of the First Amendment forbids favoring one religion over another. He needs to explain why he thinks Islam should receive special recognition from the state, as it does with his declaration on Ramadan. He should be asked why he has made no similar appeals for all North Carolinians to participate fully in the holidays or holy days of Christians, Jews, Hindus, and others. Governor Stein should be asked, finally, two questions. First, is he is aware that Muslims learn from their Qur’an that we, the world’s non-Muslims, are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6)? And second, “are you aware, Governor Stein, that Muhammad, who for Muslims is the Model of Conduct (‘uswa hasana’) and the Perfect Man (‘al-insan al-kamil’), an exemplar to be followed in every respect, consummated his marriage to his last wife, Aisha, when he was fifty-four and she was only nine?”
That should give him pause.
Billy says
Dumb, Deceitful Leftists like Stein and the Democrat Party partner with Islam’s Muslims against America, Israel, and all Non-Muslims to help gain more taxpayer money, more political power, and more government control to advance the Islamization of America, under Islamic Law. Muslims are joyous with the Useful-Idiot Democrat Party that helps Muslims fund, create, and promote Muslim Criminal-Terrorist-Gang Organizations from Mosques, Muslim Homes, Muslim Schools, Islamic Centers, Halal Organizations, Non-Profits, etc. to make Islam supreme. Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Maria V says
The hell if I’m going to observe this ‘Political Ideology!’ I’m so sick of these cockroaches imposing their Crap on us! Trumps election is holding them at bay for now. Afterwards, it will be Full blown ‘RED/GREEN AXIS
CHEVELLE says
In some Michigan schools, the pulled all the lunches at the request of “parents” during Ramadan.
Ramadan tells that you can’t eat, but it also says OTHERS CANT EAT in front of the Muslims.
The Muslims are a strong population in theses schools, so the lunches were cancelled, but some kids went and ate in secret outside the dining room area and they did let it slide. It isn’t one school it is a few.
Also all the meal in these schools are called hala meals. That means Islamic food that is killed with a knife by an imam. This type of hala meal is served to all students regardless of religion, at the request of parents.
Just today, Nashville is doing the same thing for some of their public schools to accommodate the Islamic students.
PRCS USN (ret) says
As I understand halal slaughter of unstunned, sentient animals, it is a plagiarism of the Jewish belief that Abraham chose–at the last moment–to not comply with Moses’ command to sacrifice his son.
While appropriate, IMO, to condemn halal slaughter we cannot honestly do so while giving Jewish shechita slaughter a pass.
CHEVELLE says
Well I will denounce it anyway and I won’t denounce the whatever the Jewish are doing.
Because hala is a part of SHARIA! They want to PUSH hala on us, while the Jew does not want to push his meat on me.
They will get us inch by inch. One day hala meat the next day its hands being chopped off by the same imam!
gravenimage says
PRCS–with all respect–God affirmed that Abraham would not have to sacrifice his son. This made it clear that Judaism did *not* practice child sacrifice as did so many religions a the time.
It was not Moses who commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son.
Cathryn M Paradise says
For a Christian to observe the fake fast of Ramadan is equivalent to worshiping a false god and dishonor Jesus Christ. if a non Muslim celebrates Muslim “holy ” days Muslims do not see it as a sign of respect but as submission to Islamic “superiority’ /control…
PRCS USN (ret) says
+1
Ugly 312 says
+Jew
Wellington says
A colossal fool.
Siddi Nasrani says
I am sure Governor Josh Stein is taking mind altering drugs, I mean to come out with that verbal diarrhea that ALL residents conform to Ramadan policy !!
Either he is Mad or if not, Evil, he reminds me of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.
He is a very dangerous man, you should all go down to the Governor Office
& tell him to ” Fu*k Off ”.
Westman says
This is America. It’s easy to imagine this doesn’t cause the intended results, rather, a month of infidel “Ramadan” parties with flowing alcohol, pork dishes, and nightclubs with special “Ramadan” offerings. Maybe a night of telescope moon monitoring, watching for the first crescent to appear, with prizes like a bottle of champagne, Harem lingerie, and for all, a starlight dinner featuring bacon burgers, hot dogs, and beer.
And who can’t imagine a government worker in North Carolina when asked why his work is behind schedule, replying, “I’m feeling weak because I’m supporting Ramadan”. Yeah, after gorging the night before and again at the pre-dawn breakfast.
Siddi Nasrani says
What a brilliant idea, bring it on.
Noah Andeark says
Fast breaking at Allahu’s Snackbar (the place for pork) is also obligatory. They have the most mohammedelicious pulled pork sammies (buy one get one) for ramadamadingdong fast breaking. They’re fit for a prophet, and to die for!
Ugly 312 says
With this ugly attempt at islampandering, I officially state that North Carolina is cooked.
My G-d. He ought to be in the synagogue studying Torah. This is an insult to Christians and Jews all over America. His brain is bad. He needs to step down.
Sickening !
40 rounds says
Most politicians are imbeciles, have no useful qualities, and, like this case, make utter fools of themselves to the detriment of their constituents. But somehow most of them get reelected
jerry glenn says
That’s what you get when you elect Democrat governors.
dumbledoresarmy says
Christians can ‘observe’ Ramadan… by praying for Muslims worldwide to wake up and .leave Islam.
What would happen if Christians chose to fast (genuinely fast, as some do during Lent) and.. pray.. pray for the exposure and total defeat of the Jihad, pray for the liberation of those whose minds have been warped by Dhimmitude…. and pray for the conversion of Muslims to Christ???
What would happen if Christians in North Carolina made a list of every single mosque in North Carolina and THEN prayed, every single Friday, that every mohammedan associated with every one of those mosques would be released from spiritual bondage???
NOTE: I do not make those suggestions as a substitute for other forms of active social and political resistance to the aggression of Islam, rather as something that Islam-aware Christians can do, alongside whatever other forms of resistance they are supporting and engaging in.
gravenimage says
+1
somehistory says
To each his own. The fool has made his choice; he’s made his bed as the saying goes and he will reap the crop he has sown.
But, if I lived there, I would gladly refuse his *commending* to participate in the worship of satan the devil.
North Carolina is a beautiful state. I have been there often. The people should kick this goon to the curb, pronto. After all, the taxpaying citizens deserve something better for their money.
Andrew Blackadder says
Lets make something clear here..
Fasting means going without food for however many days the person has decided upon, drinking only water for those set days.
Having a HUGE before the Sunrise and then a HUGE meals after Sunset means you are merely missing Lunch as many of us have done for various reasons and none of us have EVER called that a Fast or anything like a ramadmadingdong festival.
If I lived in a State that had a Governor like this prick i would have a HUGE PORK RIBS BBQ with LOUD music EVERY single day.
OLD GUY says
The urge for non-muslim/islamic followers should be for a Ham Sandwich when ever we want one.
gravenimage says
Did North Carolina Governor Josh Stein Really Urge All State Residents to Observe Ramadan?
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So all North Carolinans should have to fast because Muslims do? And Ramadan is the month of Jihad–do they also have to murder other Infidels? Then, Ramadan ends with Eid Al-Fitr, which celebrates the first Muslims conquest against Infidels. More demands to celebrate–and perpetrate–Jihad. Does Josh Stein understand nothing about this? Probably not…