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| School district considers banning traditions seen as offensive to Muslims |
| 2007-10-01 |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #14 Final decisions on which of the festivities will be axed will fall to the principals at each of Ridgeland School District 122's five schools, Supt. Tom Smyth said. Can't you read the sign on his desk. The Buck Stops...Somewhere Else. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-01 20:05 |
| #13 Ban a holiday that celebrates world peace and goodwill towards man so as to spare the sensitivities of people who would sooner see all of us dead. [spit] Fire the district superintendent, the school board and any principal who attempts to implement this Muslim-appeasing bullshit. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-01 19:53 |
| #12 Bright Pebbles, that was my first thought, aw, sh**sh, not again, another tits-up first for the UK, lol! Rest safe, it probs has happened already. |
| Posted by: rhodesiafever 2007-10-01 19:30 |
| #11 "nearly half of whom are of Arab descent at Columbus Manor" Now there's your problem. The obvious solution is to ban all traditions, including Arab ones. Just make it a good, secular American school. No prayers, no Ramadan, no head scarves, no Arabic... Let them eat anything they want that they can bring in a brown bag. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-10-01 16:33 |
| #10 I find ramadan offensive and everything related to islam offensive, can we ban that too. |
| Posted by: Tarzan Uleamble6134 2007-10-01 16:23 |
| #9 Piss on allan. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-10-01 15:37 |
| #8 Hey, no Santa in Pakistan. Probably plenty of flights outta O'Hare... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-10-01 10:41 |
| #7 I agree with Darth |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-10-01 10:39 |
| #6 Can we ban Muslims? They are offensive to me. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2007-10-01 10:14 |
| #5 While Christmas has 'Christian' overtones, the Christmas we celebrate is a result of middle class New York merchants in the early 19th Century pushing a marketing opportunity. The friggin Japanese who are largely not Christians have adopted it [helped along by the American occupation troops in the post WWII period]. It's a cultural holiday. This is more about anti-Christian behaviors of the administrators than of the system's population. They're the excuse. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-01 08:34 |
| #4 Getting that way in a lot of places. It's a shame. When I was growing up in the 50s & 60s, public schools took blue collar kids like me and imparted information and skills needed to be responsible & productive citizens. Teachers got parent support on discipline and homework loads. We kids groaned, did the work, went on to jobs or community college or more. Then the ideologues joined with the teacher unions & the ACLU and it's been open lawfare on the dominant society here ever since. Mr. Lotp's family included 4 generations of public school teachers, many dedicated and non-ideological. So not a judgement I make lightly. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-10-01 08:24 |
| #3 I'm starting to think that sending your kids to public schools is the worst thing you can do to prepare them for the future. Yeah, even worse than staying home sharing Marlboros, Bud Lite and Springer reruns with Ma. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-10-01 07:50 |
| #2 Oak Lawn, Illinois: "Welcome to Dhimmitude" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-01 07:27 |
| #1 Hurrah! This stupidity isn't in the U.K. I'd bet though that even most muslims aren't offended by xmas. This is just more P.C. shite. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2007-10-01 06:19 |