Posted on 09/04/2013 5:24:10 AM PDT by markomalley
Recently, I wrote about a ban on the use of Christian symbols in the public celebration of Christmas in the German city of Solingen. Now the virus has spread to Berlin.
As of now, Christmas is banned in Berlin's Kreuzberg - at least as far as celebration in public places is concerned. Christmas is only allowed in the home, so that the religious feelings of others are not injured.Source: MMNews.de
No April Fool: the district office of Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg is doing away with Christmas. The authorities are allowing no more Christmas celebrations in public places or streets. A Christmas tree may only be set up in a central location, allocated by the authorities in advance - so reports the "Berliner Zeitung". The ban on celebrations was decided by the Greens, the Left and the Pirates. The SPD [Socialists] and CDU [Merkel's party, mainstream right] were apparently against it.
The responsible city councilman Peter Beckers (SPD) responded to protests against the ban on the public celebration of Christmas to the BZ: "Why do religious celebrations need to be celebrated in public?"
Background to the Christmas ban: In August Muslims wanted to celebrate the end of Ramadan on Berlin's streets. There were complaints from locals worried about the noise. The District Office made "short work" of these and immediately banned all religious celebrations - including Christmas, on the grounds of "equal treatment".
Exactly. There's no Christmas fest like Nuernberg's Kristkindlsmarkt. The southern Germans down in Bayern are as traditional with their holiday celebrations as anyone can find.
Sorry if I offended; however, they just banned Christmas everywhere but in the home.
In one district in Berlin.
it’s a start.
I meant in that district or whatever. It’s a beginning.
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