Why are Muslin holidays on my calendar? I am not a Muslin and prefer now to have them on my calendar. How can I remove them?

Please read through this thread so you can understand how subscription calendars work. The short answer is you can't modify subscription calendars and this topic was discussed recently ad-nauseum.

How can I remove muslim holidays from iCal?

Forgive me if these links have already been provided. (See notes below.)

About holiday calendars on iOS and macOS - Apple Support

Use iCloud calendar subscriptions - Apple Support

Note: I have great respect for Apple for including other religions as holidays, considering the issues surrounding immigration here in the United States at this time. But you all are correct. Many are not, "US Holidays". Groundhog Day and Halloween are not holidays! The entire discussion is moot and not likely to be resolved, in my opinion.

For what it's worth, the following link provides the official 2018 United States Federal Holidays, and only one is religious: http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/2018-federal-holidays

There is no such thing as an official US holiday - not one. Congress does not have the authority to declare a national holiday. Any US Holiday is nothing more than whatever any group of Americans decide. And ecah group of Americans can decide for themselves.

The US Federal Government may enact holidays only for federal institutions - that is, they have a federal government employee holiday schedule. Not unlink any other employer and whatever holiday schedule they set up for their employees. And nobody outside of the federal government is required or mandated to observe any or every US federal employee holiday. Many States do not observe some of the US federal employee holidays and have their own State legislated holiday(s).

The Christians holidays suddenly have been on the apple calendar since September 10, 2002 ish. You can't remove anything from the subscribed calendar but you can go to Show Calendars and un-check the US Holidays box and then they will no long show up on your calendar.

jimwithjen wrote:

Because it (Eld al-Adha) is not an official US Holiday.

Easter is not an official US Holiday. Why is it on my calendar? And, as Michael Black says, there is no such thing as official US Holidays.

I had never noticed that before! Thanks for making my day. Although Muslin is a natural cotton fiber also. But whatever you do don't mix different fibers in the same weave. In the Bible that is a crime punishable by stoning to death.

What Absolute Nonsense!

Open the Calendar app. Tap Calendars. Uncheck US Holidays.

Then go to icalshare.com (or another of the many sources of subscription calendars) from Safari on the phone and subscribe to the calendar that best meets your prejudices from the hundreds of FREE holiday calendars that are available. As already explained in the thread you probably didn't read, subscription calendars can only be changed by the provider of the calendar; they can't be edited by the subscriber, any more than you can edit a magazine you subscribe to. But no one is required to use a subscription calendar that makes them uncomfortable.

gunjaBeans wrote:

In this case Apple says, "Modify your definition of US Holidays to include Islamic Holidays."

Apple is expanded it's definition of U.S. Holidays to include ones celebrated by a significant number of U.S. citizens. It seems to me that definition of "U.S. holiday" is "a holiday celebrated by U.S. citizens". So, yes, Muslim holidays are U.S. holidays.

gunjaBeans wrote:

Right, and as I stated there is still no simple solution to remove days one does not celebrate.

The horror! The horror!* Since you noticed it in the calendar, presumably it is open. Tap Calendars. Tap the check next to the US Holidays calendar. ALL GONE! NO ONE should ever have to go through such trauma! That is such a complex (not simple) solution that one should receive an award for doing it! Of course, it is simpler than going through a year's worth of holidays and removing every one of them that one does not celebrate. Did you notice that there are not just Muslim holidays, but also Jewish, Hindu and Eastern Rite Christian? I bet you don't celebrate any of them!

*Literary allusion for anyone educated sufficiently to recognize it

gunjaBeans should probably never visit New York. As a port of entry for all kinds of immigrants for decades, there are at least 80 languages spoken there. And I’m sure would be offended by the very large number of specialty shops where the shop signs are in Arabic, Italian, German and lots of other languages. I tell ya’, it’s enough to make a person pass out. 😮

Kurt Lang wrote:

gunjaBeans should probably never visit New York. As a port of entry for all kinds of immigrants for decades, there are at least 80 languages spoken there. And I’m sure would be offended by the very large number of specialty shops where the shop signs are in Arabic, Italian, German and lots of other languages. I tell ya’, it’s enough to make a person pass out. 😮

All city forms are in 7 languages.

It seems rather insensitive to exclude ancient Roman holidays like Agonalia, Paternalia, Fordicidia, Mercuralia, Vestalia, Saturnalia, and countless others. Why are Wiccan holidays (Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostrava, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, & Mabo) not included? Many Americans celebrate those. Pastafarian holidays, celebrated by followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, are also excluded; shameful. For Apple’s U.S. Holidays calendar, some holidays are clearly “in” while others are “out.” Rather than embracing diversity, the Apple U.S. Holiday calendar seems rather arbitrarary and exclusive to me. As with Siri, I just deleted it.

Not that it personally matters much to me...but the five most practiced religions in the U.S. are all Christian denominations. http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/ In Pew’s study there are actually more atheists and agnostics in the U.S. than Jews and Muslims. Just as Shiites and Sunnis each see their own sects as “true” Islam, an enduring feud (http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_551_600/shia_versus_sunni.htm) separates them. Many members of the Christian denominations (e.g. Branch Davidians) would likely cringe at the thought of being lumped together as a single religion. And many believe their sect to be the only “true” faith and the followers of other Christian denominations to be ****-bound. The Latter Day Saints consider themselves Christian. But their holidays “Pioneer Day,” “Founding Day,” and “John the Baptist’s Visit“ are curiously absent from Apple’s Holiday calendar.

Rather than “us“ or “we the people,” much of humanity have an affinity for seeing themselves as “us” and others as “them.” Whether that perspective is fueled by religion or nationalism, we as a species seem incapable of escaping tribal thinking and the rancorous debates (and wars) that often accompany it. We might all actually come a bit closer together by ignoring the Apple holiday calendar. Imagine.

pjstarich wrote:

It seems rather insensitive to exclude ancient Roman holidays like Agonalia, Paternalia, Fordicidia, Mercuralia, Vestalia, Saturnalia, and countless others. Why are Wiccan holidays (Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostrava, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, & Mabo) not included?

Apple included the holidays celebrated by the five religions with the most adherents in the U.S. Links have been provided elsewhere in this thread for calendars that include (or exclude) other holidays. Chose the one that best meets your needs.

lindseyfrommuskegon wrote:

I am also not made of Muslin but I appreciate a nice breathable fabric.

I imagine their holidays are probably very comfortable.

Give natural fibers a chance.

😀 be careful, though. The Bible forbids wearing fabric made from mixed fibers. The penalty is rather severe: stoning to death.