Posted on 12/06/2004 12:35:30 PM PST by nypokerface
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian teacher's efforts to make a Christmas carol more acceptable to young Muslim students by removing the word "Jesus" has rekindled the debate over religious symbols in the Roman Catholic country.
A middle-school teacher in the northern Italian town of Como set off a storm when she told Muslims in her class that if they preferred they could replace the line "this is the day of Jesus" with "this is the day of virtue."
"Jesus banned in Christmas songs" the daily Il Giornale, run by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's brother, said in a front-page headline Sunday.
"Substituting the word Jesus in a Christmas song is a serious mistake and an offence against the entire Catholic community," Como's mayor, Stefano Bruno, from the center-right Forza Italia (Go Italy) party, told Agi news agency.
Religion has been an increasingly prickly issue in Italy as immigrant communities grow.
A judge sparked a nationwide controversy a year ago when he ordered that a crucifix be taken off a school wall. Pope John Paul weighed in saying it was undemocratic and dangerous to try to erase a country's religious symbols.
Tension mounted again earlier this year when a nursery school refused to hire a Muslim woman, saying her headscarf could scare the children.
But before the latest standoff exploded into a full-blown controversy, the 10- and 11-year-old students resolved the issue by opting to stick to the original lyrics.
The director of the school, Pasquale Capria, told reporters on Sunday: "The foreign students themselves told me it wasn't a problem for them to sing Jesus."
Foreigners, many of them Muslim, represent about 20 percent of the students at the school. There are some one million Muslims living in Italy, a country of around 57 million people.
Since 9/11, it does have a tendency to make me look twice...
Anyone seeing islamics bending over backwards to appease Christians?
It already is. Public school Christmas concerts are now Holiday concerts and in my granddaughter's school, no carols are sung, only santa and reindeer and that kind of song. It's so sad.
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Yep, it is.
No, but if you do, I hope you'll post a link to the video! (Not holding my breath waiting for it)
Used to laugh and call him names . . . "
Used to laugh and call him names . . . "
They never let poor Allah
get it on with virgin dames!
LOL!
""The foreign students themselves told me it wasn't a problem for them to sing Jesus."
Then why push an obvious 'adult' agenda on them?
NOPE!!
And when did the muslim religion take on such importance?
I never heard anything about them and suddenly they are upfront and center stage and God forbid anyone should upset them after they all the have their "rights".
Yeh they have the right to leave ALL Christians ALONE!
And leave our CHRISTmas songs alone, etc etc.
Our Country was founded on Christianity not muslims.Especially radical ones.
Then one foggy Ramadan,Allah came to say,
"Mohommed with your turban so tight,
Won't you slay infidels tonight"
Then how the mad horde loved him
as they shouted out with glee
Allah the bloodthirsty moon god
You'll blight human history!
...Don't forget those timeless classics like "We Wish You a Happy Ramabomb," "Frosty the Arab," "Hark the 72 Virgins Sing," "We Three Jihadists," and "Let it Blow, Let it Blow, Let it Blow." And if you order right now, we'll send you absolutely free of charge a very special holiday CD by none other than Moham and his Murderers...
When the actions of immigrants begin to threaten the survival of a country-they have become a plague, and must be treated as such.
And the little drummer boy: Rama bomb bomb, Rama bomb bomb!
Amazing,
Less than 1 percent is allowed that much influence.(Probally to keep the leftists happy)
One Europe awakes(if it does). it will be bloody.
...then one starry Ramadan
Allah came to say
Abu with your blade so bright
find an infidel to slay tonight
Oh yeah, just what the world needs: For us to bend over backwards to be sensitive to these murderers.
How about "Away in a manger we hid the C4."
LOL, this is too much fun.
We are told that homosexuals make up only 1% of our population, but look how they have everybody with power and influence dancing to their tune.
Majority rule may adversely effect 1% of a population, but not nearly as adversely as rule by a 1% minority effects the other 99%.
It's Christmas isn't it? Not Mohammedmas! Although in Italian I think it's just 'Natale'.
But Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet of God. Why would they have problem sing a song about him?
It's starting in The Netherlands and Denmark. Hopefully the Awakening will spread.
That's right. Be nice to the muslims, they're going to be your rulers soon enough!
Since they call Jesus "Isa" they would probably want to sing "this is the day of Isa" followed by wishing Christians "Merry Christ People-Of-The-Book-Mass" if they promise to obey the PC crowd, and become good dhimmis... that is if they are not Islamic purists and do not believe in singing songs or music in the first place. If so, they can always go look for the closest EU funded soccer stadium...
If they claim that Judaism and Christianity are false religions, yet they predate Islam, and Islam claims their lineage as heritage, wouldn't that make Islam false too? As with so many other things about this religious cult, it just doesn't make any sence.
It's further proof that the head pedophile Muhammed (pork be upon him) was a liar or their delusional rock god suffers from the very human condition of not being able to make its mind up and backtracking. Real hilarious for a religion with the concept of "din al-fitrah" (the original religion).
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