I agree with the BNPs point that British schools should not cancel

Comment on Islamification of Britain by David.

I agree with the BNPs point that British schools should not cancel traditional Christmas celebrations for fear of upsetting those who don’t celebrate Christmas (not just Muslims, and some Muslims do celebrate Christmas BTW).

My main point was is there any evidence that this play was put on because the school was going politically correct or another reason? Not exactly a politically correct play they planned if it was a replacement for a traditional Christmas play!

I don’t know why they did the play, reading the article it doesn’t specifically say a traditional Christmas play was cancelled because Muslims are up in arms or some other nonsense. The article was clearly written from the perspective the topic of the play is controversial (gangs, knifes) and it’s not very Christmas like for a play in December.

It’s a newspaper reporting on a controversial play and the BNP have made it sound much worse than it is.

I did a little research and could only find reference to one other Christmas play involving the school, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (in 2008), a collaboration between three schools and think it wasn’t performed at the school in question.

Might be a case this school doesn’t normally put on a traditional Christmas play, many don’t.

When the BNP puts news stories out like this it really discredits their message. Like I said I agree with the BNP on this one and I’m an atheist, so have no vested interest either way beyond enjoying celebrating Christmas which was a pagan festival originally.

There’s no greater joy for a Dad when you dress up as Santa for the first time and your youngest child starts crying because a very strange man with all white hair dressed in bright red insists you sit on his knee :-) All three of my sons cried the first time they saw me dressed as Father Christmas, I’m not that scary as a overweight old man in blood red clothing!

I tried Frosty the Snowman one year, combination of a quilt and lots of cotton wool. I almost died from heat stroke, though the kids didn’t cry!

If a group in society don’t want to celebrate Christmas, I’m not going to force them, but by the same token I honestly don’t care if it upsets a minority of extremists. It’s Christmas and in the UK we celebrate it with a big smile on our collective faces.

If councils and schools are really canceling plays for political reasons, they are wrong and something should be done about it.

David