Re: Eid - Thursday or Friday
Dope, here is something to enhace your senses (taken from Hilaal Committee Toronto)
THE SIGHTING OF SAUDI ARABIA
The horizon of Saudi Arabia is different than ours here in North America. This is why the senior Muftis and Scholars (Ulama) of Saudi Arabia (Sh. Abdullah bin Baz, Sh. Saleh bin Uthaimeen etc.) have also issued fatwas for the Muslims in North America that we should not follow the sighting of Saudi Arabia but rather follow our local sightings.
(Please see fatwas on the web at: http://www.jas.org.jo/hilaal/).
So if the moon cannot be sighted (scientifically proven fact) then Chicago and ISNA must be high on something so does the followers