Sesame Street posted Ramadan wishes with a photo of with Grover, Elmo and other friends to the delight of tens of thousands of social media followers. The image below has been liked and shared more than 30,000 times on Facebook and liked and retweeted more than 5,000 times on Twitter:
Credit: Jennifer Brett
Credit: Jennifer Brett
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"I may not be Muslim, but I give Sesame Street mad respect for the equality," posted E. Scott Hamlyn, one of hundreds of comments left on the venerable children's show's official Facebook page. "Nice message for the children of the world!"
"This is why at 39, and no children of my own, I still love Sesame Street," Sara Elaine Clauss posted.
Here are some tweeted responses to Sesame Street's post:
Not everyone applauded, though:
But most responses were positive:
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