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Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims
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| Dec 7th,2004
Posted on 12/07/2004 6:07:38 PM PST by missyme
ROME - An Italian teacher's efforts to make a Christmas carol more acceptable to young Muslim students by removing the word "Jesus" has rekindled the debate over religious symbols in the Roman Catholic country.
A middle-school teacher in the northern Italian town of Como set off a storm when she told Muslims in her class that if they preferred they could replace the line "this is the day of Jesus" with "this is the day of virtue."
"Jesus banned in Christmas songs" the daily Il Giornale, run by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's brother, said in a front-page headline Sunday.
"Substituting the word Jesus in a Christmas song is a serious mistake and an offence against the entire Catholic community," Como's mayor, Stefano Bruno, from the center-right Forza Italia (Go Italy) party, told Agi news agency.
Religion has been an increasingly prickly issue in Italy as immigrant communities grow.
A judge sparked a nationwide controversy a year ago when he ordered that a crucifix be taken off a school wall. Pope John Paul weighed in saying it was undemocratic and dangerous to try to erase a country's religious symbols.
Tension mounted again earlier this year when a nursery school refused to hire a Muslim woman, saying her headscarf could scare the children.
But before the latest standoff exploded into a full-blown controversy, the 10- and 11-year-old students resolved the issue by opting to stick to the original lyrics.
The director of the school, Pasquale Capria, told reporters on Sunday: "The foreign students themselves told me it wasn't a problem for them to sing Jesus."
Foreigners, many of them Muslim, represent about 20 percent of the students at the school. There are some one million Muslims living in Italy, a country of around 57 million people.
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KEYWORDS: christmascarols; purge; tohellwithmuslims
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:07:39 PM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims Must...control...fist...of...death!
2
posted on
12/07/2004 6:10:08 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(I like Democrats, too. Let's exchange recipes.)
To: Prime Choice
Tell the truth, some days don't you wish we could CUSS on FR?
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:11:11 PM PST
by
Howlin
(W, Still the President)
To: Prime Choice
This is so shocking! A Catholic Country filling up with the roaches of ISLAM....
4
posted on
12/07/2004 6:11:53 PM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
Let her tell her Muslim students that to be fair any mention of Mow-hasbeen or Allah will be forbidden. See how long she keeps her head.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:11:59 PM PST
by
Dallas59
("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
To: missyme
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:13:40 PM PST
by
Chani
(bookmark girl)
To: Dallas59
Christians: Love and Pray for your Enemies
Muslims- We Saw your head off with a knife and show it on Internet
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:14:09 PM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
Religion has been an increasingly prickly issue in Italy as immigrant communities grow. ,,, you can't even take a Bible to Saudi Arabia. It's way past time to stop the flow of incompatability into Europe and the US.
To: missyme
how many Muslims there are in Italy? I bet less than 1% of the population. There are 15% Christians in Egypt who get absolutely no respect, position of power, acknowledgment in the media, or accommodation in the Egyptian education system. These bastards are only using the freedom and liberty in the West to achieve their goals. That is to convert the West to Islam.
To: Prime Choice
"Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims"
Must...control...fist...of...death!
Take it easy. Jesus wasn't banned. The teacher just offered that Muslims could substitute another word IF THEY PREFERRED!
To: missyme
Praising Allah (false God) all the way.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:16:40 PM PST
by
Dallas59
("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
To: missyme
Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims
REALITY-CHECK TITLE:
RELIGION OF PEACE UBER THE PRINCE OF PEACE
Hmmm...maybe some of our "extremist", "hateful", "bigoted" (fill in any fire-back word CAIR uses
when someone dares to confront them with truth)...aren't lying when they
say that "Allah Ackubar" (sp?) does mean "Allah Over ALL".
Fortunately, at least the Italians will have the cojones to react to this.
Unlike some of their estrogen-mainlinin' Old Europe neighbors.
I'm just praying that Americans will be ready to kick back when this sort of
Bravo Sierra comes to their local public schools.
(although I'm not hopeful given how far they've let the public schools
slide down that slippery slope)
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:17:35 PM PST
by
VOA
To: WildTurkey
Take it easy. Jesus wasn't banned. The teacher just offered that Muslims could substitute another word IF THEY PREFERRED! You're being rational. That's not permitted on these threads.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:17:53 PM PST
by
malakhi
To: missyme
If you get offended by the way the rest of the world lives,
go home, stay home, don't come out. Cut your throat.
What a bunch of weiners! Those that complain and those that give in.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:18:46 PM PST
by
plangent
To: missyme
She didn't want to offend them and be beheaded.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:18:52 PM PST
by
82Marine89
(Robin Hood was a democrat.)
To: VOA
Seattle and Denver are walking a Thin line when it comes to following the Euro Trash in removing GOD and Jesus Christ from the school system.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:19:56 PM PST
by
missyme
To: missyme
It is no longer a CHRISTmas carol.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:21:15 PM PST
by
onyx
(A BLESSED & MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL.)
To: malakhi
You're being rational. That's not permitted on these threads. Sorry. My apologies.
To: malakhi
Jesus isn't banned "Yet" that is there ultimate goal....
Hi Malakhi!
Happy Hannukkah to you.:)
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:21:49 PM PST
by
missyme
To: WildTurkey
Take it easy. Jesus wasn't banned. The teacher just offered that Muslims could substitute another word IF THEY PREFERRED!
I just love concerts where each singer gets to use whatever lyrics they desire.
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posted on
12/07/2004 6:21:56 PM PST
by
gitmo
(Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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