[plug] Xmas

[Mark Nicholls]

Interesting,

On British T.V. there was some coveage that the Red Cross, charity shops were 
not allowed to have any Xmas decorations, reason: some ethnic minorities; 
other religions may be offended!

Political correctness gone mad?  How many christians; other religions find 
other such festivilities such as ramadan offensive?

My forefathers fought in two world wars for freedom & freedom of speech!  
Some politician's / do gooders must be whacked up, smacked up or cracked up, 
or plain bored to come out with such crap.

<\rant>

On Saturday 21 December 2002 4:08 am, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Political Correctness can get way stupid sometimes
> Ya know (further and further OT), I had a conversation with someone the
> otherday at uni who suggested that the guild shouldn't 'do' christmas
> because
> it was 'offensive to muslims'.
>
> I gotta admit I was flabergasted. Not by the apparent paradox of the 'well
> meaningness'
> of the comment, but how barkingly uninformed it was.
>
> I lived with a muslim guy for over a year. The guy drank beer (Ok , he
> actually wasn't supposed to),
> had a muslim gf that didn't wear a veil,because muslims don't have to(!),
> and relevant to the topic,
> took christmas rather seriously.
>
> Few people realise that many muslims venerate JC as the 'second most'
> important prophet, and as
> the messiah. Consequently muslims...................celebrate christmas.
>
> Yet everyday I see people foaming at the mouth over whether or not to tone
> back the religious imagery
> in christmass to not offend the minorities. But funnily enough, I cant
> think of any minorities that
> get offended by it.
>
> I tend to think people need to relax abit and stop thinkin the world needs
> to be so damn confrontational.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bret Busby" <bret at busby.net>
> To: "plug list" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Xmas and Debian 3.0r1 and XBox
>
> > On 20 Dec 2002, Scott Middleton wrote:
> > > Date: 20 Dec 2002 13:44:25 +0800
> > > From: Scott Middleton <scott at linuxit.com.au>
> > > Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > > To: plug list <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> > > Subject: [plug] Xmas and Debian 3.0r1 and XBox
> > > Resent-Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 13:45:26 +0800 (WST)
> > > Resent-From: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > >
> > > Hi PLUGgers and  Happy Xmas
> > > I prefer Merry Xmas but it seems it not politically correct anymore.
> >
> > How so? What is supposed to be wrong with ahving a merry christmas? I am
> > curious.
> >
> > --
> > Bret Busby
> > Armadale
> > West Australia
> > ..............
> >
> > "So once you do know what the question actually is,
> >  you'll know what the answer means."
> > - Deep Thought,
> >   Chapter 28 of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
> > - Douglas Adams, 1988
> > ....................................................