Illinois Schools ban Christmas, but Muslims are Allowed to Pray in School
Well, it is just the beginning of October and I really don’t want to begin thinking about Christmas yet. However, I just saw this article about a school district in Illinois that is banning the terms Christmas and Halloween, and now I have to write about it, I can’t help myself.
southwest suburban school district has taken action, responding to the concerns of a Muslim parent.
For now, children in Ridgeland School District 122 will celebrate fall festival instead of Halloween and winter festival instead of Christmas.
One Muslim parent complained about Christmas and now they are capitulating to the parent. Once again we are protecting the rights of the minority in a situation and to hell with the rights of the majority. Don’t try to tell me that it is because of the separation of church and state ( which isn’t in the constitution) because it is not. You see this school district allows Muslim students to PRAY IN SCHOOL. That’s right, if you are a Muslim you can pray in school, if you are Christian, you can’t even say the word Christmas.
The superintendent says the reason for the change in tradition comes after one parent wanted Ramadan decorations put up inside Columbus Manor Elementary. They were taken down.
Superintendent Tom Smyth said, “I go back to our policy which says that public schools are to remain neutral in this respect.”
Meantime, Muslim children are being allowed to pray during what’s being called their own time, that’s lunch time, during Ramadan.
Parent June Quigley said, “They get to pray in our schools. That is religion in a public school.”
America is losing her culture bit by bit to political correctness. We no longer require immigrants to learn the language, we have to be understanding and caring to their culture, the culture that was so good they left it to come here. And Americans are constantly being told they cannot have public displays of their religion, or pray in public schools unless your religion is a politically correct religion such as Islam.
America is losing the battle from within, we are being torn apart by political correctness and we must wake up or face the fact that America as we currently know her is doomed. We are constantly losing the freedom of speech to political correctness, and we are losing the freedom of religion to political correctness.
We need to teach immigrants to learn and accept American culture before we lose our culture.
The clock is ticking, we need to WAKE UP AMERICA.
Steve, I heard an interview with that Muslim mother this morning on the news and she said it wasn’t her intention to stop the children from celebrating Christmas and Haloween but that she should have the right to display Ramadan decorations. The news reported that the school committee had a late night meeting and voted to not stop the children from celebrating halloween and Christmas in school. It once again amazes how the liberal media outlets spins the truth. It sounded too good to be true…thank you for reporting the truth.
correction…media outlets spin the truth.
I think that Christians need to take the Muslim approach and simply start adding “or else” to things. We celebrate Christmas or else.
Seriously though, this is a very disturbing trend. I am bothered to no end by the assault on Christmas (happy holidays my ass) and now that we are being handed a double standard when it comes to religious expression I’ve gone from bothered to outraged.
You are so right. America needs to wake up and start addressing these things head on before we loose it completely. If nothing else, err on the conservative side and simply say no to everybody. It might make some people cranky but at least nobody can say they were discriminated against. However, my first choice would be to give them the finger and tell them to chill out because here in AMERICA we celebrate Christmas.
How about we ban Muslim prayers and allow Christmas wanna bet how much that will maike them mad?
Email I sent to one of the numerous companies that wish you a Happy Holiday, and then try to sell you something:
“Sorry, I don’t buy from companies that celebrate a generic and meaningless ‘Holiday’ instead of the hallowed and traditional ‘Christmas’. Here’s something I wrote for you though – and it’s free! (And isn’t that what Christmas is all about?) You can sing along to the tune of John Lennon’s Happy Christmas (War Is Over).”
Happy Holiday (Christmas Is Over)
So this is a Holiday
And what have you done
A festive tradition
Is under the gun
And so this is a Holiday
It means nothing to me
The Holiday carols
The Holiday tree
A very merry Holiday
But what’s it all for
Appease the extremists
And spend at the store
Afraid to say Christmas
Too scared you’ll offend
Intolerant people
Want Christmas to end
And so this is a Holiday
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
They know it’s not right
A very merry Holiday
And a happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Not driven by fear
So this is a Holiday
And what have you done
You’ve censored our Christmas
Forsaken God’s Son
And so this is a Holiday
Although not for some
Now stores can stay open
Extend Holiday fun
A very merry Holiday
And a happy New Year
Let’s resurrect Christ
Bring back Christmas cheer
Christmas is over
If you want it
Christmas is over
Now…
words by M. Wilde
Very good! I couldn’t help but sing along as I read it.
I think that you have completely misinterpreted the issue. This issue is with the school- a government establishment- addressing the holidays and effectively promoting them. If a Christian student wishes to pray in school, wear a crusifix, or even attempt to engage peers in religious disscussion outside of class they have every right to do so. Muslims share that same right to express their prayers and religion, free from the school endorsing one type of prayer over another. That is freedom. I think you would be singing a different tune were your children asked to have a ramadan celebration in their classroom.
The truth of the matter is that the whole “separation of church and state” thing has been blown so far out of control that most people don’t even know what it means any longer.
The separation was simply intended to prevent a theocracy from ever being established. It was never meant to keep schools of any other government institutions from recognizing, acknowledging or celebrating religious holidays or practices. It simply mean that at no time would the US government say that one religion is right and others were wrong.
A school should be free to celebrate a holiday so long as they don’t say that they are right and those who don’t go along with it are wrong. What we are dealing with right now is political correctness run amok – not the separation of church and state. It is simply a drive to make sure that nobody feels offended or left out of something. This is nothing more than a bastardization of a clause that was put forth for a completely different reason than it is being used for today.