Nativity Play Cancelled In Fear Of "offending" Muslims

[Richie88]

just read in the news about a primary school cancelling their nativity play in case it offends the muslim students.

Am I missing something here or this the most unbelievable thing I ever heard?? Regardless of the fact that the child may have come from another country of their parents/grandparents have come from another country - they have still come from another country and if our customs and beliefs "offend" them I know where they should go!

Am I alone here?

[ChuckFickens]

Anyhow... will you answer my question please?

Otherwise I may as well just post nonsense in this thread, as you are...

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

[Richie88]

Chuckfickens are you for real?

[Richie88]

which question?

[sherrardk]

Right, an extremely BIG event compared with a non-event. Why not just clearly state your actual feelings - ie are you a racist or not?

[ChuckFickens]

Read page 3 and 4 of this thread

[EDDIE51]

Yet another Daily Wail non story , the Christmas performance has been postponed until New Year because a lot of the performers were absent from school due to attending Eid celebrations at home.
For those of you who don't know Muslin festivals move throughout the year so Eid will not co-inside with Christmas next year , nor did it last year.

[Richie88]

Chuckfickens - I am not offended by the existence of other religions.

[Iluvspikey]

I'm sorry, I didn't know this wasn't a 'current' story that the questioner was on about, when he put 'just read in the news about a primary school cancelling their nativity play in case it offends the muslim students' that's why I said Eid this year was the last week in October. How was I to know the questioner reads 4 years out of date newspapers?

[LazyGun]

Their only defence? Are you for real?

You choose to post expressing your outrage at the "most unbelievable thing you have ever heard" - and inviting others to share your outrage.

And yet, upon closer examination, the reason for your outrage - this most unbelievable of events - is a story in the Daily Mail about the RESCHEDULING (not the cancellation, as your OP claims) of a nativity play due to urine-poor planning by the school in question - a story that is 4 YEARS old, happened in 1 school, in one city in the UK.

This is the cause of your outrage? This is "the most unbelievable thing you have ever heard"? This is so earth-shattering that you feel the need to invoke Godwins Law and bring Hitler into one of your subsequent posts?

Others here have all made the same point, but it bears repeating - You must have a very low tolerance and credulity level for this story to be so unbelievable to you. As others have said, this just seems a synthetic excuse for you to attempt to whip up some seasonal outrage against a subset of the population you appear to have little time for....

[Baldric]

One of the reasons given for the postponement was the fact that the Muslim children wanting to celebrate Eid with their parents were actually part of the cast of the Nativity Play, so it doesn't sound as if either side offended/was offended by the other, unless of course you know better.

[DTCwordfan]

We have a North American here folk trying to stir up the proverbial to us Brits, wit the use of the word program..........

Completely illogical in his thought and arrogant to wit as well.....why hasn't this pudding been suspended? Where are you, Mods?

[ChuckFickens]

DT... as much as I find his views stupid from my point of view, he has done nothing against the rules so doesn't deserve a suspension, if I (or any other mod) was to start suspending people for posting illogical posts I'm fairly sure you'd be one of the first to complain.

[DTCwordfan]

lol, chuck! yes,maybe you are right....and also let him sink his own boat, so to speak.

[Richie88]

agree to disagree

[DTCwordfan]

I don't.

[THECORBYLOON]

Richie, are you a VERY slow reader? You say folk are putting words in your mouth but have you not done the same when saying the play was cancelled in case it offended Muslims?

[Richie88]

DTcrosswordfan - everyone is entitled to their opinion so whether or not you dont agree to disagree doesn't matter

[Richie88]

and if think my point is idiotic or irrelevant why were so many parents at the school also outraged? Are they also idiotic?

[DTCwordfan]

It was in 2008, matter closed, it was a UK thing, not a North American one, and, guess what, we have got over it.

So why don't you move on as well?

I return to the Papal interpretation of the Nativity for example, no worse than some Muslims not liking it - oh, and by the way, have you ever been to Saudi? You'll see Christmas scenes and hear carols being played there......

Which numpty planet are you living on, by the way?

[THECORBYLOON]

Richie, everyone is entitled to his or her opinion but it helps if that opinion is based upon facts rather than imagination.