Somebody in Wales please tell them to celebrate Nazi festival as well as Communism Festival. Looks like they forgot these.

Posted by: daud at October 8, 2008 7:58 AM

"A Child's Christmas in Wales" seems so quaint:

http://www.bfsmedia.com/MAS/Dylan/Christmas.html

Posted by: darcy at October 8, 2008 8:55 AM

Somebody in Wales please tell them to celebrate Nazi festival as well as Communism Festival. Looks like they forgot these.

Posted by: daud at October 8, 2008 7:58 AM

Since Islam operates under the pretext of a religion, it passes.

Posted by: darcy at October 8, 2008 8:57 AM

Since the beginning of Methodism -- in the early 18th century, with John Wesley and George Whitefield (who also came to America and helped prompt The Great Awakening) -- Wales has been known for its Methodist chapels. Having read what John Wesley, founder of Methodism, wrote about Islam, I fondly believed that, at least in Wales, there might have been a sturdy unwillingness to descend into the apologist nonsense, the feel-good "three abrahamic faiths" business, the interfaith-healers, the "let's-learn-about-Islam from a genuine Muslim" promotion of taqiyya-and-tu-quoque, and even those seemingly innocent, but dangerously naive, introductions to Islam where the teacher thinks it would be swell if her little charges were to recite the Shehada, or look at pretty pictures of mosques that have been pasted to the wall for "Islam Week," and prayer-rugs, and even a special visit from an imam who comes specially to tell the children how wonderful Islam is, and what an unforgettable childhood impression such a visit, and the nice food afterwards, may make on very young minds.

In a different day, in a harsher and more sober universe, when one did not "learn" about things from the television, books were read, history mattered, and attention was actually paid to the texts and tenets -- and especially of the behavior, over 1350 years, of its adherents -- of Islam, there was no fooling the intelligent. John Wesley summed up, based on his reading and study, the effect of Islam on the world. Try to imagine any Christian cleric today touching, with a ten-foot pole, a remark such as the one he made, and made unremarkably, more than two centuries ago:

"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind."

Judging by Wesley's demonstration of lucidity above, there was no madness in his Methodism.

Of course, he could be straightforward about his judgments. There was no steady drip-drip-drip of the BBC and the leftist press, no political and media elites, insistent that the truth be always trimmed, taken to task or Tyburn, out of fear of offending Muslims (and fear of offending Muslims took precedence over any attempt to tell the truth about Islam), a fear that naturally includes fear of a bodkin in the back, or bullet in the front, for an individual truth-telling Infidel, or fear of a bomb on a London bus, by way of revenge at all Infidels for daring to allow such truths to be told.

Posted by: Hugh at October 8, 2008 9:04 AM

"taken to task or Tyburn,"

Perhaps the "Tyburn tree" isn't too far off for the Truth-Tellers-about-Islam of the World:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tyburn_tree.jpg

Posted by: darcy at October 8, 2008 10:06 AM

Hey, I can understand participating in Eid. Let the Muslims do the fasting, but we'll all participate in the feasting. Cool. Anybody got a baconburger?

Posted by: Karl Pov at October 8, 2008 10:15 AM

"PARENTS and pupils will gather together for a special school assembly to celebrate the religious festival of Eid.
Mount Stuart Primary School in Butetown, Cardiff organises the assembly every year.

Eid is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting."
-- from the article above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGoSiwcB0Xk

Posted by: Hugh at October 8, 2008 10:21 AM

This is sick. Wales is a land of male voice choirs, rugby and sheep farming. Trouble is, Wales's "nationalist" party, Plaid Cymru, is firmly entrenched in the same region of the political spectrum as the Scottish National Party - i.e. just to the left of Stalin.

Plaid Cymru has Muslim councillors and a Muslim Assembly member. You can read here how Plaid Cymru and New Labour squabbled over who is the most pro-Islamic in order to capture the Muslim bloc-vote. It's utterly pathetic coming from a country with absolutely nothing to do with Islam up until recently.

Posted by: watling at October 8, 2008 11:09 AM

Can my child bring a ham sandwich? After all, it is halal for kuffirs.

Posted by: tanstaafl at October 8, 2008 12:46 PM

I hope they don't discriminate against the local Satanists in this lovely multi-faith paradise.
How long before the well meaning dhimmis realize that integration will not happen, not because dhimmis don't try hard enough, but because Muslims won't have it.
After all, one of the articles of faith justifying high levels of immigration is that Muslims will assimilate into mainstream society just as did the Danes, Normans, Huguenots etc.
Yet for one group of Welsh Muslims, more than 100 years has not been long enough:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4141354.stm

Another interlude:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToxSQJrbHi8

Posted by: StephenA55 at October 8, 2008 12:50 PM

StephenA55 - Can you think of one other immigrant group who feels isolated after 100 years of living in a community?

I can't.

Posted by: tanstaafl at October 8, 2008 1:33 PM

Yvonne Scott, acting headteacher of the school, said: “It is always a lovely event. We are a multi-faith school. We celebrated harvest recently...

Celebrated harvest? What are these people, Druids?
Maybe Wiccans? That's really un-islamic. You celebrate Allah, not what he creates...

Posted by: duh_swami at October 8, 2008 1:53 PM

Tanstaafl,
No.
The claim of isolation and victimhood, and the slanting of the story to blaming the media for 'negative press' are all part of the same pattern we see time and again.
I remember Ken Livingstone slating the press after he claimed to have intensively studied all press reports concerning Muslims for a specific period. After analysing the stories he announced that a high % of them (I forget what exactly) were negative, so therefore the press were branded as Islamophobic. There was a press conference with a public denunciation.
Of course no-one pointed out the logical fallacy that this reporting was fact-based, not invented or necessarily exaggerated, and the lesson should have been 'beware of growing Muslim radicalism' not 'shoot the messenger'
Seems the media are still cowed by all this kind of nonsense.

Posted by: StephenA55 at October 8, 2008 2:05 PM

When will the UN make "Kumbaya" the official anthem of planet earth? These lovely gatherings are seemingly moving us in that direction.

Posted by: "Islamophobia"=BS at October 8, 2008 2:25 PM

The truth is that most Welsh people don't agree with this rubbish at all. In fact they want Muslims deported so this is not representative of the general population. They just want the traditional celebrations and that is all.

Posted by: Wayne at October 8, 2008 2:33 PM

Darcy wrote:

"A Child's Christmas in Wales" seems so quaint
......................

Darcy, you beat me to it. Somehow, "A Child's Ramadan in Wales" just doesn't have the same ring to it. My mother's family is from the English-Welsh border county of Herefordshire, and my great-Grandfather was a Welsh sheepherder (not as hazardous as coal mining, but even less remunerative).

At one time I had believed that the Welsh would be less suseptable to PC twaddle than their Brit neighbors, but from what I've heard recently, it's just about as bad. In fact, some Welsh and Scots seem even more apt to accept this sort of extreme multi-culturalism, in part to twit the alledgedly monolithic and "oppressive" English culture.

Suicidal.

Posted by: gravenimage at October 8, 2008 2:41 PM

gravenimage

I am afraid they are trying to be even more PC than the London "elite". I think the Welsh Nationalist Leader in the Welsh Assembly (Parliament) once said he was ashamed to sit in the Council Chamber and see nothing but a sea of white faces.

Posted by: Fred at October 8, 2008 4:31 PM

The proud Welsh who used to have a reputation for being unbeatable, now invaded by such as this. Didn't Caesar halt the Roman invasions at the Welsh border for a reason? And now they have been underhandedly invaded by this. Sad.

Posted by: charlie at October 8, 2008 4:51 PM

They're at least a week late, aren't they? I used to live in Cardiff - I know they use the Gregorian Calendar!

WSW

Posted by: Wild Slutty Womens at October 8, 2008 5:15 PM

duhswami:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/synopsis

Posted by: skevin at October 8, 2008 5:33 PM

So do they celebrate kawanza, Haunukah etc.? They should as they are a "multi-faith school" according Yvonne Scott, head dhimmi leader of the school. Is pork, discussion of the holocaust, and other things upsetting to muslims already banned?
Great they celebrate harvest. Just another example
of the ignorant being all caught up in the rush to hide the truth about islam and brainwash the most innocent and impressionable of our global society, our youth. Here's hoping they broke ramadumb, and eid with a nice, big rasher of kosher bacon.

Posted by: PatriotUSA at October 8, 2008 10:25 PM

gravenimage:

In fact, some Welsh and Scots seem even more apt to accept this sort of extreme multi-culturalism, in part to twit the alledgedly monolithic and "oppressive" English culture

Socialism is indeed more deeply ingrained in Wales and Scotland than in England. It's not clear why. It could be due to there being a higher proportion of working-class people in those two countries; Wales having had - until recently - a large coal-mining industry; and Scotland having had ship-building and steelworks.

I guess what we're seeing is that peculiar Red-Islamic alliance in action in Wales and Scotland. Whilst their respective pro-Islamic, pro-EUSSR and pro-PC nationalist parties - Plaid Cymru (Wales) and SNP (Scotland) - are thriving, there is no equivalent party in England, where the main nationalist parties - BNP, UKIP, EDP - are anti-multiculturalist, anti-EUSSR and anti-PC. The BNP is also fiercely anti-Islam. Both the BNP and UKIP put up candidates in Wales and Scotland but haven't made much headway there - presumably because of Plaid Cymru and the SNP.

Posted by: watling at October 9, 2008 6:16 AM

What are you going to do? Slith the school hamster's throat, perhaps?

Posted by: Stefcho at October 9, 2008 6:17 AM

What's the above comment supposed to mean??

Posted by: darcy at October 9, 2008 10:28 AM

No, no, Stefcho, that's the other Eid. Do try to keep up.

WSW

Posted by: Wild Slutty Womens at October 9, 2008 12:17 PM