San Diego Muslims cheer return of Ramadan banners following controversy

The Mercury News ^ | Wed, Oct. 27, 2004 | MICHELLE MORGANTE

[Rick Deckard]

SAN DIEGO - Muslim business leaders in a San Diego neighborhood cheered Wednesday to find banners celebrating the holy month of Ramadan hanging from light posts as they drove to work. The 16 green and white banners were restored following protests over a city decision to remove them.

[borisbob69]

Let's see if they cheer Manger scenes at Christmas...providing they are allowed to be displayed.

[sheik yerbouty]

Tity fathers there lack coglioni..

[Serb5150]

There goes the neighborhood.

[2banana]

When are the women in San Diego going to start wearing the burka and get genital mutilated...?

[Rick Deckard]

I neglected to add that this is the same city that forced the change of name from "Christmas on the Prado", in Balboa Park, to "December Night" so people who do not celebrate Christmas wouldn't feel bad.

[skip_intro]

The ACLU decides which religious displays are allowed. They like Muslim religious displays and hate Christian ones. Don't expect to see any "Merry Christmas" banners on city streets this December.

[borisbob69]

I could have guessed they were anti-Christian...mainly because they caved to Muslim protests and complaints.

[isthisnickcool]

Their religion would have no problem hanging infidels from the same lightposts.

[Sender]

I was watching Tech TV the other night and they were showing geek stocking stuffers. They had a cute little Christmas tree with ornaments and all that lights up when you plug it into your USB port.

They presented it as a "Winter Holiday Tree". Then they said it would be offensive to say Christmas Tree.

Come on, anyone who isn't Christian is not going to buy a "Winter Holiday Tree" anyway. PC has truly run amok.

[ZULU]

Well, the paedophilic ACLU is too busy right now running adds against the Patriot Act and, indirectly, Bush, to get involved in pro-Muslim, anti-Christian activities.

Wait until AFTER the election - regardless of who gets in.

[tophat9000]

banners celebrating the holy month of Ramadan hanging from light posts as they drove to work.

O I saw those but I thought it was an ad for that Japanese noodle soup in a bag stuff?

[MKM1960]

Some my parents' Jewish friends had Hanukkah bushes.

[monday]

"Come on, anyone who isn't Christian is not going to buy a "Winter Holiday Tree" anyway"

Actually they do. I don't see any problem with that. People can call it what they want as far as I am concerned. Christmas trees are either borrowed from an earlier pre Christian celebration or came along hundreds of years after Christs birth, depending on which story you believe.