Respecting Ramadan, Banning "Christmas" (School District Favors Muslims Over Christians)

Illinois Family Institute ^ | December 2 , 2004 | Peter LaBarbera

[Sloth]

my birth-of-Jesus-Christ, the-Savior-Christmas requires a special mass or church service, a feast, and gift giving to the needy, and often an additional evening service.

LOL, good luck finding any of that in the Bible God wrote. Maybe you have one of those new-fangled ones by somebody that thinks they're smarter than Him.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Shouldn't this be referred to as 'holiday' wear? Shouldn't all things Islam be called 'holiday' as well?

[freebilly]

I think the real issue is that allowances are being made in certain public schools for Muslims regarding aspects of their worship under the guise of "multiculturalism" while any trace of Christianity is being systematically rooted out.

If a sect of Christianity were to incorporate certain public rituals (e.g., public prayer, fasting, chanting, etc) would these same school districts view the activities of this Christian sect as merely cultural?

I think all of us know what the answer is.

[Eastbound]

Over here.

[bjcintennessee]

ping

[Calpernia]

We fast during lent. We use to pray in school too. That is no longer permitted.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Here in NYC we still have Christmas and Easter breaks...sadly, the kids don't get Rodeo Week off.

But they do get time off for the Gay Rodeo.

[FreedomCalls]

"... sadly, the kids don't get Rodeo Week off."

You don't know what you are missing....

[durasell]

Why would kids in Texas get off for a holiday named after a shopping district in Los Angeles?

[Calpernia]

>>>And I would venture a bet that it is still focused on in many public schools around the country.

Lucky you. NJ banned all Christmas music in the choir AND orchestra at the schools, some townships have banned Christmas displays and others have started issuing ordinance violations for displays that are 'too distracting'.

[Calpernia]

>>>Here in NYC we still have Christmas and Easter breaks

You do?? Are you sure? NJ doesn't. And didn't Bloomberg just rename the Rockefeller Center Tree, the 'holiday tree'?

[cyborg]

holiday tree????

[cyborg]

Well now that you said it, you sure Bloomberg isn't going to rename it 'winter break'?

[phoenix0468]

I wonder if Ms. Crawford had to take a class in Islamic studies just to write that letter? The district probably made it mandatory.

[beezdotcom]

holiday tree????

You're right...they misspelled "Non-denominational holiday shrub".

[phoenix0468]

Calpernia wrote:
>>>And I would venture a bet that it is still focused on in many public schools around the country.

Lucky you. NJ banned all Christmas music in the choir AND orchestra at the schools, some townships have banned Christmas displays and others have started issuing ordinance violations for displays that are 'too distracting'.

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Do you and your neighbors not have the ability to elect people who would veto or invalidate those idiotic ordinances? I mean come on, how do puts' like that get elected? When is our society going to wake up and smell the burka?

[durasell]

They can re-name it anything they want on memos or the school calendar. Children and parents I know still refer to it a Christmas and Easter Break.

People outside of NYC -- for reasons I never understood -- miscalculate exactly how religious a town NYC actually is...we have two full-scale cathedrals and literally thousands of churches and other houses of worship jammed into a very, very small land mass.

[Calpernia]

Do you and your neighbors not have the ability to elect people who would veto or invalidate those idiotic ordinances? I mean come on, how do puts' like that get elected? When is our society going to wake up and smell the burka?

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Elected? No one in NJ has been 'elected' in years. Hence all the voter fraud investigations.

Don't you remember seeing the countless articles here at FR about voter fraud during the weeks leading up to the elections? The feds still have some of the counties voter registration books under investigation that they subpeoned here.

[Captainpaintball]

P.C. is puss-ee.

[cyborg]

People pray in NYC too. I don't get it either.