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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
To be fair to HBC (not something that comes naturally to me  ), this year's theme is "Get Set for a Cracking Christmas in Hyndburn" and they do still have a crib in the town centre - you can't get much more traditional than that.
Personally, I think that the threat to Christmas is massively overstated by the likes of the "Daily Mail" and comes more from PC jobsworthies than ordinary folk of whatever race or creed. I've worked with muslims, lived in the same neighbourhood as muslims and I've always found 'em quite happy to celebrate Christmas with trees, trimmings, Santa Claus etc., although obviously not the religious aspect or the boozing (well, some of 'em, anyway ). Doubtless, there'll be the usual crop of "Christmas is banned" stories in the Tory press due to the stupidities of a minority of individuals, but I reckon rumours of the death of Christmas are a bit premature just yet! |
Totally agree with you, thing is though, it's the people with a little bit of power, the ones that reckon they speak for 95% of the people, who despite what they believe do NOT have their finger on the pulse of the people, that make these daft decisions.
The kind of people that ban conkers in the playground, remove foster kids from loving families and say that other faiths in a multicultural nation are upset by the word christmas.
The muslims that I know simply do not care one way or the other except for the ones that are looking forward to the double time they will be earning whilst I'm stuffing my face and pickling my liver. And chances are that if I get alcoholic poisoning over the next couple of weeks, it will be a muslim doctor or nurse that will be operating the stomach pump at BRI.