Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims

Religion News ^ | Dec 7th,2004

[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.

[Prime Choice]

Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims

Must...control...fist...of...death!

[Howlin]

Tell the truth, some days don't you wish we could CUSS on FR?

[missyme]

This is so shocking! A Catholic Country filling up with the roaches of ISLAM....

[Dallas59]

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.

[Chani]

bttt

[missyme]

Christians: Love and Pray for your Enemies

Muslims- We Saw your head off with a knife and show it on Internet

[shaggy eel]

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.

[conservlib]

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.

[WildTurkey]

"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!

[Dallas59]

Praising Allah (false God) all the way.

[VOA]

Jesus Banned from Christmas Carol to Accomodate Muslims

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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)

[malakhi]

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.

[plangent]

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.

[82Marine89]

She didn't want to offend them and be beheaded.

[missyme]

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.

[onyx]

It is no longer a CHRISTmas carol.

[WildTurkey]

You're being rational. That's not permitted on these threads.

Sorry. My apologies.

[missyme]

Jesus isn't banned "Yet" that is there ultimate goal....

Hi Malakhi!
Happy Hannukkah to you.:)

[gitmo]

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.