Quinn signs religious tolerance bill at end-of-Ramadan celebration

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Gov. Pat Quinn joins in prayer with Chicago area Muslims during Salaat al-Eid at Toyota Park, which celebrates the end of Ramadan (the holy month of fasting observed by Muslims). Sunday, August 19, 2012 | Brian Jackson~Sun Times

BY ART GOLAB Staff Reporter August 19, 2012 3:16PM

Gov. Patrick Quinn celebrated the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a ceremony that drew 15,000 people to Toyota Park Sunday morning in the southwest suburb of Bridgeview.

The governor used the occasion to sign a bill that will allow university students who have religious holiday conflicts with tests or assignments to receive alternate assignments.

He also decried recent attacks against local Muslims, citing a shooting at a Morton Grove mosque, an attack on an Islamic school in Lombard and the desecration of a grave in an Evergreen Park cemetery.

“These are un-American acts,” he said. “The people of million all 13 million, abhor anyone who would commit these serious acts of violence as a violation of our constitution.”

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