Political Correctness gone overboard
Hat tip to Charles at
LGF for this story from Italy:
bq. A public school in the northern Italian city of Treviso cancelled their Christmas play and replaced it with “Little Red Riding Hood”—to avoid
offending Muslim children.
Last week, a public elementary school in the northern city of Treviso decided that Little Red Riding Hood would be this year’s Christmas play instead of the Christmas story.
The teachers said the famous tale was a fitting representation of the struggle between good and evil and would not offend Muslim children. The school’s traditional nativity scene was scrapped for the same reason.
In another school near Milan, the word “Jesus” was removed from a Christmas hymn and substituted with the word “virtue.” In Vicenza province an annual contest for the best Nativity scene in schools was canceled.
Conservative politicians and Churchmen blasted the moves.
“Are we losing our minds?” said Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli, an outspoken member of the populist Northern League. “Do we want to erase our identity for the love of Allah?”
This is ludicrous -- Italy has such a strong spiritual history and to throw it away because of the objections of a non-native group of people is insane. If the nativity scene offends you --
don't look at it!
Posted by DaveH at December 10, 2004 3:35 PM