Posted on 12/03/2008 1:50:24 PM PST by Joiseydude
British parents looking to see their children in a traditional Christmas play are fuming after a school decided to cancel the performance because it conflicts with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper reported.
Officials at the Greenwood Junior School in Nottingham decided to postpone the annual holiday performance because it would have been too difficult to have both the Christmas and Eid celebrations together, The Telegraph reported.
But parents told The Telegraph that they were originally told the performance was canceled because Muslim children wanted to celebrate Eid with their families, making it difficult to schedule a date for the performance.
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Um...all children except the Christian children, apparently.
Christmas and Eid celebrations conflict with one another, so cancel the Christmas celebration. Seems perfectly logical.
England, it was nice knowin’ ya.
You probably right wait a minute by what the year they say majority of school age kids are going be Muslum born and raised I think it was year 2025
Eid was over in October this year.
What’s the deal with Eid in December??
Sheeple h*ll, the “frogs” ain’t gotta clue as the heat goes up another degree.
Sure, just roll over and let the invaders have their way. Where is Churchill now that we need him?
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You are probably right because EID spelled backwards is...
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Quite right too.!
And while you are at it, lets bulldoze those thousand year old, draughty, leaky, Cathedrals, and build nice modern Mosques?
Enoch Powell!
Rivers of Blood are coming.
If British “Christians” went to church and practiced their religion at home, instead of expecting government schools to do it all for them, maybe they’d have the ganas to defend their religion and their culture.
I think you're confusing religious practice with tradition. A school Christmas play in a Christian country, although rooted in religion, is simply a tradition we've come to expect, not a religious service.
Eid, on the other hand, is not traditional and, therefore, purely religious.
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I agree, but the fact that this school, and other institutions throught Britain, have chosen to put Moslem religious practice ahead of secular traditions with a historical basis in Christianity indicates the relative power of those who believe in something, when opposed to those who just do what’s been done in the past.
The origin of “culture” is “cult,” religious belief and practice, both in language and in actuality. A society that has abandoned religious belief and practice (overall, not every individual) is easily overcome by one where religion provides the energy and commitment for cultural aggression.
In my opinion, putting religious practice into the hands of government and business institutions is a losing move. The government cares about power, and its functionaries, largely, about their own comfort and job security. Businesses care about profit. Institutions of both kinds are vulnerable to pressure from those whose religious belief informs their actions at a personal and family level.
In summary, what I’m saying is that that I believe that when you reach the point of expecting a government school or a business to uphold your cultural, formerly religious, traditions, you’ve already lost. If there’s an opponent on the ground, such as Islam in Britain, he’ll be in full charge; if there’s not one, there soon will be, because nature abhors a vacuum.
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