Christmas to be down-graded! Around this time of year we have become accustomed to hearing stories of various political and non-political bodies suggesting that we tone down our Christmas celebrations in order not to offend those non-Christians in our society. This year is apparently no different as a Government think-tank (presumably their phrase, certainly not mine) has suggested that Christmas be down-graded unless other religious festivals are marked on an even footing. The Institute of Public Policy Research has suggested, in a report to be published next week, ways to make this once great nation of ours even more multicultural. It essentially says that if we are going to continue marking Christmas then other major religious festivals should also be marked. Well, I’m quite happy with that, I’ve always thought that Easter was very much under-played. Apparently in 2006 three out of four employers did not put up Christmas decorations for fear of offending staff of other cultures. Humbug, I say! Stories like this make me even more determined to make the most of Christmas and although I am not a particularly religious person I grew up in the Christian tradition with assembly every morning at school and carol services at Christmas. This is supposed to be a Christian country, if non-Christians want to celebrate their own festivals then fine, carry on, but I would suggest they are playing with fire if they want to reduce Christmas to the level of their minority religions.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
I imagine that Rufford Primary School in Lye in the West Midlands will be one of schools that are not going to celebrate a traditional Christmas this year. Sally Bloomer, the head mistress, is involving the school in a diversity project to promote multiculturalism. As part of this project teachers and pupils at the school have been ordered to dress up as Muslims in a belated celebration of the Muslim festival of Eid (the festival to mark the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting). All 257 pupils, most of whom are Christian and 41 teachers, 2 of whom are Muslim, dressed up. A morning assembly was held to mark the event and an afternoon party was strictly for women only, because Muslim husbands object to their wives mixing with other men. Not all staff were happy with the event but felt that they were at risk of upsetting those obsessed with politically correctness. There is believed to be no truth in rumours that a goat was ritually slaughtered by the school cook whilst the pupils watched, nor any truth that one child who attempted to post Christmas cards through the slot in the veil of a teachers head-dress mistaking it for a post-box, was buried up to her chest in the sports field and stoned to death. To all at Rufford Primary School may I say HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
One Muslim has just left our country after a state visit. King Abdullah, the king of Saudi Arabia, has now gone back to where he belongs. Despite lecturing us on its failures in dealing with terrorism, King Abdullah did not discuss the issue of human rights, even though it was on the agenda for the visit. Prince Saud al Faisal, the Saudi Arabian foreign minister, admitted that the issue had not come up during the visit. Consequently the Saudi Arabians will continue to hold public executions, torture prisoners and treat women as second class citizens. I would like to wish all in Saudi Arabia a very HAPPY CHRISTMAS. God bless you all.
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