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Eid ul-Fitr celebration marks end of Ramadan

Worshipers leave Masjid Darul Quran in Bay Shore

Photo credit: Ed Betz | Worshipers leave Masjid Darul Quran in Bay Shore on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 after a service to mark the Muslim holy day of Eid al Fitr.

Men and women, many of them wearing the traditional dress of Pakistan, chatted amiably in the parking lot Sunday after having coffee and doughnuts. The children, some licking ice cream cones they got for free from an ice cream truck in the lot, scampered about outside Masjid Darul Qur'an, The Muslim Center of Long Island, in Bay Shore.

The festive scene marked the end of Ramadan, the monthlong...

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