Muslim Family Complains - Father Christmas is Banned

[bornatbirth]

dont you get fed up posting this

as if we would all agree with dedworth, arthur

[Arthur Little]

as if we would all agree with dedworth, arthur

I'm afraid I do on this occasion. Santa Claus IS - and has long-been - an integral part of childhood [here as elsewhere] ... and it is totally inconceivable that such a worthy tradition should be interfered with for the sake of pandering to a minority religious creed that ought to have absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the British lifestyle.

[Dedworth]

I'm afraid I do on this occasion. Santa Claus IS - and has long-been - an integral part of childhood [here as elsewhere] ... and it is totally inconceivable that such a worthy tradition should be interfered with for the sake of pandering to a minority religious creed that ought to have absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the British lifestyle.

Summed up brilliantly Arthur

[bornatbirth]

bearing whatsoever on the British lifestyle.

i thought that story was in america

[Dedworth]

i thought that story was in america

He put "here as elsewhere" and as the author of this thread I'd like to say to avoid hair splitting I view the discussion as covering the tampering with age old traditions and values in all Western/Christian societies.

We read earlier the line it's in America not Britain

[fred]

I'm afraid I do on this occasion. Santa Claus IS - and has long-been - an integral part of childhood [here as elsewhere] ... and it is totally inconceivable that such a worthy tradition should be interfered with for the sake of pandering to a minority religious creed that ought to have absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the British lifestyle.

Arthur if the story is accurate then I will also agree with the majority of the posts... We need a serious source of information before we begin lighting the torches and send out the masses on a witch hunt..
Personally I think someone with ulterior motives is having a laugh with us!!
That said..If it does turn out to be true perhaps our immigration problems will begin to disperse to the US!!!
So whats the problem??

[Arthur Little]

Personally I think *someone with ulterior motives is having a laugh with us!!

... and *who might that be, Fred?

[fred]

... and *who might that be, Fred?

Watching CNN a lot over here and there have been a lot of Anti Christmas messages in high profile areas in the U.S posted on HUGE signs...Not very popular but not breaking the law either...
I would have thought it was one of those nutters.. Could be wrong but as the US is full of fruit cakes I would much prefer to see a credible source before I personally make a judgement!
Do you know of one?

[Manila_Paul]

Arthur if the story is accurate then I will also agree with the majority of the posts... We need a serious source of information before we begin lighting the torches and send out the masses on a witch hunt..
Personally I think someone with ulterior motives is having a laugh with us!!
That said..If it does turn out to be true perhaps our immigration problems will begin to disperse to the US!!!
So whats the problem??

If you check some of the follow up stories here, where it was originally pubilished: http://mankatofreepress.com/local/x2...use-Santa-flap

It is pretty clearly a do gooder at work. How comes they've lived in the community for 20+ years and only now decide they want to stop Father Christmas seeing their kids? Of course, they don't. Same thing in the UK every year too. Some idiot council decides to 'avoid offending' non-Christians by calling Christmas 'Winterval' - and Muslims therefore get blamed for trying to change our way of life! Meanwhile, good luck trying to find any Muslims that could give a shiny ***** about what Christmas is called or anything else. They are far too busy just getting on with their lives to care.