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November 26, 2007
Christmas Compromise
Bureauweenies in Briarcliff Manor, north of New York City, have reached a compromise on Christmas and hannukah displays.
They used to balance a Christmas tree with a menorah on the town green, until someone realized that Christmas trees are more pagan than Christian. He offered to donate a crèche, which was turned down as politically incorrect.
A judge ruled that forbidding a crèche while allowing a menorah was an endorsement of Judaism. The only religions government is allowed to endorse are secular humanism, environmentalism, and Islam, so down came the menorah.
The Christmas tree was still allowed, but the star had to come off the top, lest it remind anyone of the purpose of putting up the tree in the first place.
The Northern Westchester Interfaith Council, composed of 12 Protestant ministers and 9 rabbis, released a statement agreeing with the bureauweenies that we wouldn't want religious holidays marred by religious symbols in the public square.
But now a recommendation has been approved that will put the star back on the tree, and allow a six-foot dreidel, which is a spinning top with Hebrew letters on the sides.
Future negotiations will resolve how to address Fourth of July decorations, after moonbats start demanding they be purged of all references to the USA.
On a tip from Wiggins.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 26, 2007 10:37 AM
Comments
"But growing numbers of Christians have insisted in recent years that the menorah is more of a religious symbol than a Christmas tree, which was derived from pagan traditions."
Well, uh, Judaism got the menorah from Persian Zoroastrianism. What the heck does the origin of a traditional symbol matter?
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at November 26, 2007 11:18 AM
Meanwhile, more rationality from The Religion Of Peace-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;?xml=/news/2007/11/26/wsudan226.xml
"A British primary school teacher in Sudan is facing 40 lashes and up to six months in prison after allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear after the prophet Mohammed...
Her actions have sparked protests in Sudan and have forced the school to close until January for fear of reprisals.
The divorced mother-of-two from Liverpool is being held at a police station in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum, and there were reports that an angry mob had gathered.
Have these people nothing better to do than form angry mobs? And why is it a gross insult to call your teddy bear Mohammed, when half the male population are called Mohammed? Isn't it just a name? Wasn't Mohammed called Mohammed because it was just a name his parents gave him? These people are insane, aren't they?
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at November 26, 2007 11:33 AM
So, the people who negotiate what is permitted to be viewed in the public square... do they actually believe themselves rational?
Posted by: V the K at November 26, 2007 11:50 AM
V-
In a marketplace based degree on "offense", they are acting rationally :)
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at November 26, 2007 1:31 PM
Ian from the EUSSR, that was the exact thought I had when I read that story this morning.
The angry mob has proven to be an extremely effective method of bullying and frightening outsiders into bending to the will of Islamic law, therefore it is used quite extensively. Basically, stick with what works. Isn't that how they took Paris?
I wonder what they would do it someone made a statue of Mohammed out of elephant dung and glued penis pictures all over it.
Note to self: Stay out of the Sudan.
Posted by: Harris at November 26, 2007 1:48 PM
