Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’

 The Pennsylvania judge has decided to dismiss a case against a Muslim man accused last October of attacking an atheist who marched as ‘Zombie Muhammad’ in a local Halloween parade. Gained much questions, Cumberland County Magisterial District Judge Mark Martin said he dismisses the case because of a lack of admissible evidence.

According to Harrisburg Patriot-News, Judge Martin dismissed charges against Talaag Elbayomy, a muslim immigrant who was recorded in a grainy video last October physically engaging another man, Ernest Perce V, during the Oct. 11 parade in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Perce, a member of the “Parading Atheists of Central PA,” filed a complaint with police alleging that Elbayomy attacked him during the parade and inflicted bodily harm.

“He grabbed me, choked from the back, and spun me around to try to get my “Muhammad of Islam” sign off that was wrapped around my neck,” said Perce.

Judge Martin threw out the charge against Elbayomy and also made remarks that have led a number of organizations to accuse him of bringing religion into the court room. Judge Martin told Perce that “what you have done is you have completely trashed their essence, their being. They find it very very very offensive.”

The judge also had this to say,

“If I were a Muslim, I’d find it offensive. But you have that right, but you’re way outside your boundaries or first amendment rights. This is what, and I said I spent about 7 and a half years living in other countries. when we go to other countries it’s not uncommon for people to refer to us as ugly Americans this is why we are referred to as ugly Americans, because we are so concerned about our own rights we don’t care about other people’s rights as long as we get our say but we don’t care about the other people’s say.”

Día de los Muertos, which is well-known as Day of the Dead, is a Mexican tradition that stems from Meso-American societies and was heavily influenced during the Spanish Conquest of Mexico in the XIV Century. During Día de los Muertos families create ofrendas (offerings) for loved ones who have passed. The Hispanic community commemorates the Day of the Dead with a celebration that remembers and honors the departed by creating altars decorated with crafts, food and symbolic decorations. In some parts of the United States, Day of the Dead is quite popular too. Celebrations include wearing masks, carrying signs honoring the dead and building alters to remember those who have passed. Continue

NBC delayed the “Grimm” premiere to tie it to Halloween, but the new supernatural series is far from a ghost story. “Grimm” is a show themed fairy-tale. While it’s no instant classic, it nonetheless reinterprets its classic fairy tales with dynamism, humors, and a smooth visual style. NBC’s pilot for “Grimm” aired last night and aroused various comments and critics from the audiences. The story tells about Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) learned he was descended from the brothers Grimm. As it turns out, Nick is one of the last living members of the Grimm family, and those fairy tales are actually true. With risking his own life, he’s tasked with the responsibility of keeping innocents safe from the villains people know from bedtime stories. Continue

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o’-lanterns, watching horror movies and decorating houses as they will be seen as haunted houses. The origins of Halloween is said that some folklorists have detected them in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin. Continue