Posted on 04/09/2023 6:46:32 PM PDT by marshmallow
One of the foremost colleges at the University of Oxford cancelled its annual St George’s Day celebration for 2023 – and will celebrate the end of Eid instead.
Magdalen College, which was founded almost one hundred years before the English Reformation and was named after St Mary Magdalen, has a long tradition of celebrating the April 23 feast of England’s patron saint.
The event customarily featured a banquet in which all academics, staff, dons, and students were invited to dine together from a “special English menu”.
College members in the past were invited to “a formal hall and high table at 7.30pm” in order to “celebrate St George’s Day”.
But this year the event has been scrapped and replaced with a celebration of the end of the Islamic season of Eid, which closes on April 21.
On April 23, the college’s first day of “Trinity” term, students will be offered a meal which will “follow Muslim customs”. They have been told that “the meat dish will be halal and no alcohol will be served”.
The decision has caused contention. Dons at Magdalen College and staff at Oxford University denounced the move.
One academic at the college told the Daily Telegraph: “The cancelling of St George’s Day is yet another example of the deep antipathy that the leaders of so many of Britain’s academic institutions seem to feel towards the country that built and maintains them.”
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I think they will be disappointed. The Eid meal is just a meal. Nothing special. It ends the fasting of Ramadan where no food or water is taken from dawn to nighttime. It is meant to be a time of feasting with family and friends.
Well, UK, welcome to the suck.
Those Brit guyz are going to look cute in burkas and veils. LOL!
This is a profound cultural tragedy.
There’s no England now.
Time to organize a St. George’s Day formal dinner off campus.
And the rest of westsern civilization is hanging by a thread.
What law says that the whining dons cannot hold the dinner anyhow?
Take some moxie
Yup.
The obamanites are holding the upper hand.
Thats all the more reason for the last boy scout, DJT.
One day brits will wake up and realize they are bowing to their new masters and will wonder how it happened.
“Shall there always be an England?”
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