Congratulations Hawaii, you are now winner of the highly “un-coveted” Lone Star Diary “Jackass Award;” you are also a disgrace to the rest of America! Evidently the 3,000 lives that were lost on 9/11 at the hands of Islamic terrorists means nothing to you. Unbelievable! (See story below.)

HONOLULU - Hawaii’s state Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill to celebrate “Islam Day,” despite the objections of a few lawmakers who said they didn’t think the state should honor a religion connected to Sept. 11, 2001.

The resolution to proclaim Sept. 24, 2009, as Islam Day passed the Senate on a 22-3 vote Wednesday. The bill was previously passed by Hawaii’s House of Representatives.

The bill recognizes what it calls “the rich religious, scientific, cultural and artistic contributions” that Islam and the Islamic world have made.

But the Senate’s two Republicans argued that radical Islamists cheered the 2001 attacks. They also noted that other religions didn’t have a special day honored.

The lone Democrat voting in dissent opposed it on church-state separation grounds.

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