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CHRISTMAS CANCELLED
First, Spanish villages abandoned centuries-old traditions for fear of offending Muslims. And now:
A school in traditionally Catholic Spain has cancelled Christmas celebrations so as not to offend children who are not Christians, ABC newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The Hilarion Gimeno school in Zaragoza said teachers had put forward various reasons for not celebrating Christmas, but ABC said the worry was that Muslim children might be upset.
Usually in these cases it turns out that Muslims aren’t at all upset, and that the action has been taken by pre-emptive wimps anticipating Muslim anger. Which tells you something about how whipped are certain societies.
That’s pathetic. Really, things like this almost make me sympathize with the jihadists who want to take over Europe. The normal (if not laudable) human response to cringing cowardice is contempt, not compassion.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 12 10 at 10:10 AM • permalinkWhich tells you something about how whipped are certain societies.
Which also tells you said societies think all moslems are wussie-assed but violent whiners.
Now where would they get such an idea?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 12 10 at 10:11 AM • permalinkI wonder when they’ll ban Christmas in American schools because it may offend Jehovah’s Witnesses?
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 10 at 10:21 AM • permalinkA friend of mine at work recently buried her 105-year old grandmother. The old woman had never been in the hospital, was still in command of her mental faculties, and was in good physical health. The death certificate gave the cause of death as “failure to thrive”. What this amounts to is that she had simply lost the will to live. Historical coroners could use that phrase when they issue Europe’s death certificate, no questions asked.
All my hard work, way back then…in the shitter…Jesus H. Christ! Oh and El Cid is a tad easier then Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar.
For if you say El Cid, really, really loud…people usually say gesundheit. Whereas if you fumble fart your way through, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, people look aghast, for you usually are eating food, with your mouth open.
AND, what the hell gives, if you people can stand in the face of A bull, (with tight little pants)or bulls (as in running from, just for the hell of it in the hopes you don’t get Gore’d as the case may be)...Why in the hell, are you letting these Moor’es…(yes reference to Mikey, also) screw with your machismo, huh?
Yeah, so what if I MAY have worked both sides…got my name and the legend that I richly deserved left, in the books of history.
Spain has come a long way from the days of the Conquistadores, hmmmmmm?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 10 at 12:13 PM • permalinkYes, kids the world over are known for being opposed to celebrating Christmas. No one hates Christmas like the kids. Kids are just so totally, knee-jerk anti-Christmas. They dislike the clutter from being given presents. Kids are like that.
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 12 10 at 12:56 PM • permalinkDidn’t Muslims in Spain just decide not to celebrate Ramadan out of concern of offending non-Muslims? Oh, right. They didn’t. nevermind /Litellaoff
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 12 10 at 01:50 PM • permalinkI hear that Sky (Fox in the UK) had to rename their office Christmas party as a ‘Winter’ party following complaints from two members of staff.
It’s stuff like this that makes me turn a blind eye to the ‘offer the other cheek’ stuff and resort to violence.
However, there are pockets of sanity.
Muslim leader of Kirklees council had these eminently sensible words to say
“For a long time now the council has only put up things which say ‘season’s greetings’ on town halls. There was a strong perception that political correctness was behind this. I think this kind of PC does more harm than good to community relations. This year we will be putting up ‘Merry Christmas’ signs on all our town halls.”
Posted by pommygranate on 2006 12 10 at 06:32 PM • permalinkNah, it’s just the leftoid twats which fill educational institutions around the world who have always been uncomfortable with religion see this as their opportunity to abandon traditional Christian celebrations so they can concentrate on Glowbal Warmening or whatever crap they do believe in. By knackering Christianity, the twats probably thnk they are unblinkering the children but all they are doing is making it easier for the opposition.
I find that a lot of people who want to ban Christmas “because it might offend Muslims” are just using our Islamic friends as an excuse for pushing their own doctrine of Fundamentalist Humanism. In this way “tolerance” can be a handy excuse for getting rid of any religious expression, no matter how benign or justified, that Humanists don’t share.
Posted by blandwagon on 2006 12 10 at 08:27 PM • permalinkI was in the lift at work last week and one of my Muslim colleagues got in. It’s hard not to remember that she is Muslim, given that she wears a full-on head scarf etc.
She had a few bags with her, and I put my foot right in my mouth when I said, “Doing a bit of Christmas shopping are we?” I felt like a bit of a dick before I had completed the question.
And she turned around and said, “Yes, and I also got some stuff for Eid, which is right after Christmas”.
She is quite happy to celebrate the holiday along with the rest of us and would probably kick you in the nuts if you suggested that we get rid of a day when she could give and recieve presents.
Talk of it offending Muslims is bunk. It’s un-Australian to not want a day off.
Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 10 at 08:30 PM • permalink#8 AussieJim
Your Great Australian Bikini March link has taken me to one of the most frightening announcements I have seen in my long life.Attention Media
The GABM is now officially closed.There will be no more correspondence entered into. You may take any information from this website. Please be professional and objective. Don’t attach your personal agendas or continue to source your facts from internet gossip.
It is the power of the msm in Australia that frightens me. They have killed the plans for a peaceful protest.
Is there no way we can get back some of the freedoms we have fought for?
After all, we are still in the majority… aren’t we?Spain has come a long way from the days of the Conquistadores, hmmmmmm?
Shit, yeah! Can you imagine Cortez, Pizarro or Coronado hiding their Catholicism in order to not offend the locals??
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 11 at 04:40 AM • permalink#22 rebase & #23 blandwagon, those are VERY good points, thank you. The few Muslims I knew were perfectly happy to keep their business open on Christian or Jewish holy days, & sell beer & smokes to the infidels of ALL skin-tones. Then they hired someone to run the business when it was their time for holy days. No offense offered or taken by any. BUT lately, I seem to be hearing a lot of “Well, no one’s really said anything yet, but what if…” & so get what they want under the guise of inoffense to someone else. Brilliant concept, eh?
Really pathetic excuse for bigotry, far as I can see…
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But my friends in Barcelona kept insisting after the Madrid bombings and the election that followed that this was not capitulation, that it had more to do with internal Spanish politics, that we were reading it all wrong, that there was nothing to worry about, that the U.S. media (???) was spinning this to make Spain look bad, that relations with Muslims in Spain were fine…
It’s sort of sad to see a country I love so much heading for the shitter…