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The Red Cross bans Christmas (to avoid offending Muslims)
Daily Mail UK ^ | December 16, 2010

Posted on 12/16/2010 1:36:06 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

Christmas has been banned by the Red Cross from its 430 fund-raising shops.

Staff have been ordered to take down decorations and to remove any other signs of the Christian festival because they could offend Moslems.

The charity's politically-correct move triggered an avalanche of criticism and mockery last night - from Christians and Moslems.

Christine Banks, a volunteer at a Red Cross shop in New Romney, Kent, said: 'We put up a nativity scene in the window and were told to take it out. It seems we can't have anything that means Christmas. We're allowed to have some tinsel but that's it.

'When we send cards they have to say season's greetings or best wishes. They must not be linked directly to Christmas.

'When we asked we were told it is because we must not upset Moslems.'

Mrs Banks added: ' We have been instructed that we can't say anything about Christmas and we certainly can't have a Christmas tree.

' I think the policy is offensive to Moslems as well as to us. No reasonable person can object to Christians celebrating Christmas. But we are not supposed to show any sign of Christianity at all.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ban; banned; christmas; culturalsuicide; islam; jihadinthewest; muslims; nationalsuicide; redcross; uk; ungland
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’ll be cutting up my Red Cross volunteer certification.


21 posted on 12/16/2010 1:46:05 PM PST by Qwackertoo (New Day In America November 03, 2010)
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To: Celtic Cross

We seem to detonate less frequently.

SnakeDoc


22 posted on 12/16/2010 1:46:14 PM PST by SnakeDoctor ("They made it evident to every man [...] that human beings are many, but men are few." -- Herodotus)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Somebody in the Red Cross management hierarchy authored this piece of PC claptrap. He should be fired immediately and the policy reversed.


23 posted on 12/16/2010 1:46:24 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Nothing but self loathing. Liberals are ashamed of who they are, so of course they apologize for being Christian and willingly turn their back on their traditions for a bunch of savage headchoppers.


24 posted on 12/16/2010 1:46:46 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Well, Dang!! There goes another charity down the drain.


25 posted on 12/16/2010 1:46:52 PM PST by davisfh (Islam is a mental illness with global social consequences)
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To: Red Badger

Not to mention the cross of St. Andrew and Patrick!


26 posted on 12/16/2010 1:47:26 PM PST by VanDeKoik (1 million in stimulus dollars paid for this tagline!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
As you open your pockets for yet another natural disaster, keep these facts in mind:

Marsha J. Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross... salary for year ending 06/30/03 was $651,957 plus expenses.

Brian Gallagher, President of the United Way receives a $375,000 base salary, plus numerous expense benefits.

The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization.

No further comment necessary

27 posted on 12/16/2010 1:48:22 PM PST by WVKayaker (Faith makes the discords of the present become the harmonies of the future - Robert Collyer)
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To: massgopguy

“Don’t Red Crescent ambulances in East Jerusalem have a tendency to explode?”

I think they did, and for a while there were rumours that they were used to get fighters to the skirmish location. Don’t know for a fact, though.


28 posted on 12/16/2010 1:49:02 PM PST by DBrow
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To: FromLori
I’m offended that they are offended and will donate to another charity.
I ONLY donate to Christian charities. I hope no one here is offended by that.
29 posted on 12/16/2010 1:49:12 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Pollster1
They would change it to RED X but it sounds too much like...
30 posted on 12/16/2010 1:51:29 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The UK may be lost, but if the RC in the US tried such a stunt their fund raising would flop - big time.

Yes, I have contributed dollars and blood over the years.


31 posted on 12/16/2010 1:51:40 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Qwackertoo

“I’ll be cutting up my Red Cross volunteer certification.”

The American Red Cross is a different organization. Look before you leap, they seem to be OK (I don’t care for their privacy policies, but at a recent blood drive there were Christmas decorations).

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=477859f392ce8110VgnVCM10000030f3870aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default


32 posted on 12/16/2010 1:52:14 PM PST by DBrow
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To: WVKayaker

Whenever I’m out and about, the red kettles always get whatever change I have in my pockets. It adds up!


33 posted on 12/16/2010 1:52:24 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!!)
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To: Pollster1

The International Red Cross is a completely left-wing, anti-American and anti-Christian organization hiding behind the name of a charity. They have nothing to do with the American Red Cross and the day they embrace any of that thinking, will be the day they lose American support and money.


34 posted on 12/16/2010 1:53:55 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Do Moslems even donate to the red cross?


35 posted on 12/16/2010 1:55:22 PM PST by sniper63 (Did you plug the hole in the border yet daddy........)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Don’t forget the Brits recently banned the selling of “Hot Cross Buns”, an English tradition, because they had crosses on them. The UK is headed for the dust pile of history.


36 posted on 12/16/2010 1:55:52 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: DBrow

‘zackly.
ARC is not a part of the International Red Cross.

I donate three times a year.


37 posted on 12/16/2010 1:56:08 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If I lived in the UK and I gave to the Red Cross, I’d stop giving. And I’d encourage all my friends and relatives to stop giving. And I’d tell the Red Cross about this. Maybe then it would change their minds. Nothing like hitting in the pocketbook to get their attention.


38 posted on 12/16/2010 1:56:10 PM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

My late father was a WWII veteran - he and many of his friends from the same era despised the Red Cross.


39 posted on 12/16/2010 1:56:21 PM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, get a pit bull.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Red Cross will never get one red cent from me.


40 posted on 12/16/2010 1:58:03 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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