Just look at it this way ... if a muslim guy comes to you and wishes you "Happy Eid" or "Eid Mubarak" and since you do not celebrate Eid what would your reaction be? If you wish them back and not be offended, then its respect due to you for celebrating with other faiths. Yes, reporting your comments as racism to the boss is harsh as a devout muslim he should also show patience & understanding but the flip side is that he also made his position very clear earlier on. I know lots of devout christians who do not celebrate Christmas at all, and I wouldn't wish them as such because it would offend them - why? because they do not beleive Christmas to be Jesus's birthday and 25th holds no value for them. I have had those friends wish me "Happy Holidays" instead and vice versa. It requires understanding sensitivities on everyone's part at the end of the day.
and yes, i feel the government is to be blamed for over PC'ness in UK. It should have spent money on educating the public on different cultures and religions instead of putting in new laws.
Iam thinking a tad more basic...
We are as a society to blame.. give anyone an inch they take a mile.. People in power have caused so many problems allowing people to even think they have been offended in the first place.. Just like the 'where theres blame theres a claim' sort of thing..
Muslims and the like have been a part of our culture for a lot longer than people tend to remember.. How come no one was offended just a short time ago.. how is it that all of a sudden mention Christmas and you'd think you had pulled his mothers eyebrows out ff's..
As I have said.. I have a muslim neighbour.. He has been over wished us a Merry Christmas and even wrote out a card from him and his family.. we have done the very same and been invited to a meal with them come the new year.. Not been summoned to the United feckin nations for racial abuse ........
These radical types are causing the problems for there own people.. Bloody arse!
Mike
The world is probably less barbaric if you are not female, gay, a pre-pubescent female, or sexually liberated. Let's not forget so called honor killings which are on the rise in Britain. Women who do not bend to the will of their family or commuity are often forced to commit suicide or are murdered and the killings are made to look like suicide. It is documented that there are now well organised networks of hit men who are prepared to murder on the say so of those families who feel that they have been dishonoured.
Rather than it being extreme radicals influencing how each other feel, it is in the words of Zia Hader Rhaman a Muslim author and journalist writing in the Telegraph on a poll in which a significant amount of British Muslims had some sympathy with the London suicide bombers and 1/4 of British Muslims beleive the government and secret services were involved in the London suicide bombings. He states that "quite logically if an idea is commonly held it cannot be exclusive to an extremist fringe...1/4 cannot be dismissed as a lunatic fringe but constitutes a significant minority".
When the programme 'Undercover Mosques was critised by the police and that critisism was dismissed by the authorities because the programme was said to be in the public interest. I agree, as a bi-sexual, sexually liberated woman i am well aware of what my fate would be if i lived in such an intolerant hypocritical society. After all, people settle in this country to escape oppression and prejudice, why should a significant number of them deny these freedoms to their families and attempt to impose their will on the wider community.
No i'm not racist before anyone accuses me. However, i strongly believe that people should contront and challenge things whenever necessary rather than towing the PC line.
I don't care if this offends anyone;
I would have told him to f*ck off and if he does'nt like it go live in a muslim country.
Before anyone starts screaming that i'm a racist, let me tell you this.
I lived and worked in Saudi for a while, and during ramadam you were not allowed to eat/drink during the day in public, if you did you could be arrested. Thier country, thier rules. It was my choice to live/work there.
Im not a sexist or a racist !
its a pitty really, because i know a great joke about tina turner !
That I entirely agree with. But what about Muslims that were born here?
There lies the problem, when you are born you do not have a religion, it's normally your parents that, in my opinion brainwash you into a relgion. As an adult you have a choice. If you are born here and you choose to be a muslim, then you MUST respect our culture.
and insisted on wishing the miserable bugger a Happy Christmas whether he wanted you to or no, even after he pointed that out to you? 
;) the lunatic fringes can demand that we chop peoples heads off if they insult Mohammed all they like, cos they're never gonna get it, but then the NF and BNP used to shout Niggers and Pakis, Out, Out, Out on Briggate of a saturday afternoon, and we never took them all that seriously either? ;)
we're meant to be better than all that, but i imagine that if i felt my identity and culture was under threat, then i might assert that identity and culture rather more stridently than i had previously, much like you'd read in this thread, and yes, the radicals on all sides will exploit that if we play into their game, and they'll do their damnedest to ruin it, for all sides. it's classic divide and rule, and yet we're allowing them to set our agenda, and play our hand for us, cos we're all soooooo intimidated and afraid of 'them'? FFS we'll even swallow biometric ID cards if it only saves us, saves us from the muslim hordes! :lol:
