I realize it's off topic but someone in this thread brought up easter and christmas.
Does anyone know if there was truth to a Queensland town banning christmas lights because muslims in the street won a decision based on "christians should practice their religion indoors and not in public" ?
Or is it just one of those BS circulating emails?
I suspect it's just another of those piece of anti muslim propoganda - if it did happen it is far more likely to have been the work of some non Muslim iidot with a warped sense of political correctness.PC
thanks Nero - you beat me to it.
@am*3 wrote:
Daydream's posts:
"I say we do as France has done"
"The public school that i mentioned above did not do their traditional Christmas concert the first year the school became an Intensive English Learning School."
You should read more in the link you posted
France adheres to a strict form of secularism, known as laïcité, which is designed to keep religion out of public life. This principle was entrenched by law in 1905, after fierce anti-clerical struggles with the Roman Catholic church. Today, the lines are in some ways blurred.
The French maintain, for instance, certain Catholic public holidays, such as Ascension.
But secular rules on the whole prevail. It would be unthinkable in France, for example, to hold a nativity play in a state primary school, or for a president to be sworn in on a Bible.
...For the French, however, it is part of an unapologetic effort to keep religious expression private, and to uphold the country’s republican secular identity.
i did read it thanks am. Im totally fine with their law of keeping religion out of public life, be in burqas, christmas concerts, swearing on a bible or whatever else.
What i am not fine with is a schools traditional christmas concert being changed into something else so as those who dont believe in Christmas can participate.
