BP MARKOWITZ STATEMENT ON BEGINNING OF RAMADAN
"Ramadan is one of the most important and holy times of the year for Islam--a time when hundreds of millions of Muslims from across the world honor their faith through charity, fasting and sacrifice. Brooklyn is home to one of the most vibrant, progressive and growing Muslim populations in America: we've got the largest Pakistani and Turkish communities, but every corner of the Muslim world is represented--from Bosnia to Bangladesh, Morocco to Palestine, Yemen to Syria, Egypt to Jordan and many more. To everyone marking this most holy of months, I and all of