Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
i came across this today don't ask how it's so old but made me laugh looool
[b]Santa Myth Exposed: Muslim 2nd Grader Ruins Christmas for Entire Class
Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 02:09 AM CST | Issue 7[/b]
BOSTON, MA - After the events that transpired here last week, Ms. Johnsons' second grade classroom will never be the same.
"We were making cardboard cutouts for the school's holiday musical when all of a sudden, I hear Adnan telling everyone that Santa Claus isn't real," stated Ms. Johnson in reference to Adnan Sami, one of her seven-year old students. "I don't know what on earth possessed him to tell such horrid, horrid... truth."
Classmate Adam Garber (above) reacted to the news much the same way as the rest of the class, including Ms. Johnson.
"My mommy told me," explained Adnan. "I go home and asked her if Santa Claus was coming to our house because we don't have a chimney. She said that Santa's not real and I said 'OK' and that was that."
"How on earth can people live like that?! It's insane," exclaimed a visibly-upset Ms. Johnson.
The child has a history of ruining holidays for area youth.
Last Easter, he quickly pointed out that the Easter bunny who visited their classroom was in fact the school's alcoholic janitor, William Banes.
"He sounded like Willy because Willy always sounds like he's about to go to naptime," laughed Adnan in reference to Banes' problems with alcoholism.
"He's two for two thus far," stated School Principal Marvin Taylor. "We've got to brace for New Years. There's no telling what damage this kid can do."
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
I as a muslim find this offfensive.
Keep christian holidays christian.
Noone that is not christian should have any view, and certainly should not find it offensive.
This is political correctness going bonkers.
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
Salam
I want to say "Merry Christmas" to everyone.
Why should anyone find that offensive ?
And if you find it offensive, Merry Christmas !!
Omrow
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
I find it offensive to remove the religion out of a religious festival.
christmasn is christian. Keep it christian. Do not make it out to be a non-religious festival.
The maga corps would prefer that. more people they could rip off.
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
Now that is a good point indeed.
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
[quote="Admin"]
christmasn is christian. Keep it christian. Do not make it out to be a non-religious festival.
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the CONCEPT of xmas may be christian
but the way its celebrated is either commercial or pagan
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
It is still christian.
Or Pagan.
Not non-religious.
It is associated with religion. Do not disassociate it.
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
No-one is stopping anyone in the US from saying Merry Christmas.
It's just that some people prefer to say 'Happy Holidays' and therefore incorporate Christmas, Hanukka and the New Year.
Who in their right mind would launch a War on Christmas? It's bonkers. It just gives right-wingers something else to complain about.
Muslims In The Festive Spirit?
[quote="Admin"]I find it offensive to remove the religion out of a religious festival.
christmasn is christian. Keep it christian. Do not make it out to be a non-religious festival.
The maga corps would prefer that. more people they could rip off.[/quote]
but isnt it now becoming a festival hardly anything to do with christianity?
altho it shudnt be, and for some it isnt - in the main, it is pretty much all about companies cashing in IMO
From the people that brought you [b]THE 'WAR ON TERROR'[/b] comes...
[size=18]The 'War on Christmas' [/size]
An increasingly vocal number of Christians are attacking what they say is a "war on Christmas" by those determined to enforce a rigorously neutral holiday season reflecting America's constitutional separation of church and state.
Earlier this month, the official greetings card sent out by the president and first lady stirred up controversy for omitting any reference to Christmas.
"The Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and... they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," fumed William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Some 80% of Americans describe themselves as Christian, and about 96% celebrate Christmas.
Millions of them use the phrase "happy holidays" as a convenient way of showing respect for other faiths.
Yet the row over the White House card has been just the tip of the iceberg in a year when the battle against secularism is being fought harder than ever by religious conservatives.
The campaign against "secularists gone wild" is also being driven by people like John Gibson, a popular anchor on the Fox News Channel.
His book - The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday is Worse Than You Thought - collates examples of how political correctness is, he says, neutering "America's favourite holiday season".
Meanwhile, at least 1,500 lawyers have volunteered to sue any town that tries to keep nativity scenes out of its holiday displays.
About 8,000 public school teachers stand ready to report any principal who removes Silent Night from the choir programme.
Such moves reflect the 1985 US Supreme Court "reindeer ruling".
It said that town-square nativity scenes and the like were constitutional if balanced with secular symbols like Santa Claus, thus avoiding the appearance of state-endorsed religion.
The American Civil Liberties Union is an active defender of the religious freedoms guaranteed in the constitution, and is often the target of conservative ire over the issue.
He said the group was being demonised by well-organised "extremists" whose real agenda was to crush religious diversity, "and make a few bucks in the process".
"Nowhere in the Sermon on the Mount did Jesus Christ ask that we celebrate his birth with narrow-mindedness and intolerance, especially for those who are already marginalised and persecuted," he wrote.
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