Re: Two Eids Again in North America
I am not sure who is addressed in this post, and whom are you calling "stupid" or "pathetic". As a rule, when a discussion falls into name-calling, its time to move on.
Just to clarify again, as I said before, it doesn't matter which country sights the moon first. If its Libya or Fiji or Japan or Hawa'ii, or whatever, once you get evidence from credible muslims that moon is sighted, there is a reasonable argument that you should follow it whereever you are in the world (time differences notwithstanding). Fact of the matter is that usually, not always, Saudis are the first ones to sight the moon. But thats besides the point. Any muslim in any part of the world can sight the moon and spread the word through internet etc.
Will it give rise to a universal muslim calendar? Not really. There are plenty of muslims, with a reasoned argument that moon should be sighted locally and thus muslim calendar can be varied between location to location.
Whichever way you follow, there will be instances that people in Demascus will celebrate Eid a day before those in Lahore or Makkah or New York... so be it. Why insist that they should be same or different. People follow the ruling that makes sense to them. Not necessarily what makes sense to TUMS. :)