Supporters of jihad can now use Marks and Spencer to order flowers to celebrate their victories — if they sent flowers. In any case, this is just another sign of Britain’s gallop toward ruin: its own traditions are derided and forbidden. Meanwhile, no accommodation of Islam is too extravagant for British authorities.
“M&S bans customers using the words ‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ in messages when they are ordering flowers online – but jihad is okay,” by Lydia Willgress, MailOnline, March 1, 2015:
The words ‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ have been placed on a list of banned words by Marks & Spencer and cannot be used in gift messages.
Customers buying a bunch of flowers who try to add a free message containing them are prevented from completing their order.
An on-screen notification, which pops up if any blocked words are entered, reads: ‘Sorry, there’s something in your message we can’t write.’
‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ join other banned words including ‘f***’ and ‘gay’ – but some terms including jihad, Buddha and Allah are accepted.
‘Terrorist’ and ‘d**k’ can also be included in messages.
The policy emerged earlier today after one customer was stopped from buying a £35 bouquet for a funeral because she said in the gift message that it was from a family in ‘Christ Church Teddington’.
When Gerardine Stockford, 53, phoned customer services an employee told her that it must be a blocked word, according to The Sunday Times.
Lord Carey, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, was shocked.
He said: ‘If Christ becomes an offensive word in a Christian land then all of us should be alarmed.’…
Angemon says
Keep importing and empowering adherents of a faith whose core teachings diss Christianity and see how that works out for you…
Spot On says
I didn’t know that Jihadis were that big on flowers, enough to support a florist who loses all their current Christian customers.
Kenny says
Lord Carey thinks that Britain is a “Christian land”? If only!
Paul says
M&S is a ludicrously expensive store that’s best avoided anyway. It’s for
people with more money than sense – and now for status obsessed traitors
who are happy to aid the unholy and degenerate Cultural Marxist / Islamist
agenda, of which this latest bit of nonsense is just a symptom.
I don’t doubt for a minute that there’ll be many more incidents like this in the UK.
I had hoped that people here would wake up in time and respond properly to
the huge threat in our midst. As bad and as insane as things are now, it will
unfortunately require major atrocities and persecution on a completely
unprecedented scale before we see any proper instinct for survival kick in. That’s
what we saw in Egypt when they threw out the Muslim Brotherhood. Here in Britain,
and the West in general, it seems we’re happy to wait until it gets that bad.
Babs says
The C of E, with its public announcement that the adoption of sharia law is inevitable is among the worst of the dhimmified organisations, the foremost being the UK Houses of Commons and the Lords.
That being the case Lord Carey shouldn’t be at all shocked.
ECAW says
You’re overstating the case. It was only the last Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams (a berk of the first order) musing out loud that perhaps some bits of sharia (no stoning or anything like that) should be accepted. He was drowned out by howls of outrage and retracted very quickly.
Having said that, the C of E clergymen that I have corresponded with seem unbelievably wet, doing Muslims’ work for them with the “You can find violent passages in all scriptures” line.
Marty says
Probably the lowest point for UK Christianity , (apart from the previous Archbishop of Canterbury & his filthy beard), was a couple of months back.
Our Westminster Abbey had its its flags at half mast because the despotic king of Saudi Arabia had snuffed it.
The head of a country that bans Bibles and Christianity, and sentences Christians to death if they try to
even discuss Christianity with mohammedans.
solomon says
This is as ridiculous as it can get.
solomon says
Ridiculously insane.
mortimer says
What about all those Christmas puddings? Will M&S start calling them ‘Winter Season Puddings?’
M&S has always been a strongly Jewish firm selling many products from Israel. What has got into them? The last absurd controversy was the Muslim checkers who didn’t want to touch pork or alcohol in December 2013. In the year 2000, they renamed the St Michael clothing line (which had been named after one of the Jewish founders Michael Marks!) Who was offended by St Michael, I wonder?
A lot of Christmas presents are purchased at M&S. Why are they unnecessarily offending their biggest customers?
Zimriel says
In the year 2000, they renamed the St Michael clothing line (which had been named after one of the Jewish founders Michael Marks!)
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Michael is an (arch)angel in Judaism too, so it makes sense that a semi-Jewish firm could call him “saint Michael” without breaking the commandments.
cs says
M&S is kind of fancy yeah, I have some clothes from them, bought at the charity shop lol.
That was very dhimmi from them all this, who is next? Selfridges?
Zimriel says
Jesus’s title in Islam is, also, “Christ” – by way of Syriac, “Masih”. I’m guessing that Marks n’ Sparks would be happy to put that in Arabic characters for you but not in Estrangela . . .
gravenimage says
Zimriel wrote:
Jesus’s title in Islam is, also, “Christ” – by way of Syriac, “Masih
……………………….
Not quite, Zimriel. “Masih”—which comes from the Syriac for “Messiah”—refers only to the *Christian* Jesus. Christians often use the surname “Masih” in Muslim countries such as Iraq and Pakistan.
The Muslim “Jesus” is “Isa”—a figure that bears almost no resemblance to the gentle, healing, peacemaking Jesus of the Gospels. Nor, of course, is he any kind of savior.
Instead, the main role of “Isa” in Islam is to *kill Christians* in the last days.
somehistory says
Revelation 13 prophecy says only those who have the mark of the beast will be able to buy and sell. This is clearly ( in my opinion) caving to the beast, accepting the mark, in order to continue to buy and sell.
Those who wish to buy from a company that censors the word Christ or the name Jesus Christ, should feel free to take their business elsewhere. When do muslims send flowers, anyway? And what about those muslims who live in Christ Church? Or do they avoid this location?
gravenimage says
UK department store bans “Christ” in flower messages, but “jihad” is OK
…………………………..
Suicidal Madness…
More:
The policy emerged earlier today after one customer was stopped from buying a £35 bouquet for a funeral because she said in the gift message that it was from a family in ‘Christ Church Teddington’.
When Gerardine Stockford, 53, phoned customer services an employee told her that it must be a blocked word, according to The Sunday Times.
…………………………..
And this is possibly the most insane of all—Christ Church Teddinglton is a Church in a neighborhood of London.
Moreover, Christchurch is the name of the biggest city on the southern Island in New Zeeland—would it also be forbidden to mention the name of this major city? Probably so…
Charli Main says
“When Gerardine Stockford, 53, phoned customer services an employee told her that it must be a blocked word”,
I wonder if the customer services employee was called Ahmed ben Ali or Fatima Hadji ?
Sam says
Is it that different here in US? We don’t say Merry Christmas but Happy Holidays intead and many other bs. That is how it starts and we let Islam win all over. How crazy this is.
pumbar says
I thought Britain was finished? Isn’t this report redundant?
Daniel K says
This is absurd… The only one of these parameters that makes any sense is allowing for the nickname for Richards, which is probably why that is not banned. In that case though Christ which is by no means always a curse word should be allowed. I wonder if you can beat the censors by doing / between letters?
Donovan Nuera says
It should be called Marx & Spencer……. Happy Jihad, D**kheads!
duh_swami says
He said: ‘If Christ becomes an offensive word in a Christian land then all of us should be alarmed.’…
What makes you think you live in a Christian land, yer grace?
Minerva says
Because FOR A FACT it IS!
deja vu says
Minerva, there is no such thing as a Christian country – only a human being can be a Christian. In past centuries most British people were genuine Christians (as opposed to cultural ‘christians’), and God blessed the nation as a result.
Today things are very different. With the rise of militant atheism and secularism, a spiritual vacuum has been created which has been filled by those of other faiths, especially Islam, which saw the UK as a complete pushover.
Note to Lord Carey: The name of Jesus Christ has long been used as a cuss word in Britain without censure. Why are you shocked now?
dumbledoresarmy says
My own suspicion is that “Christ” and “Jesus Christ” were included because they were – clumsily and foolishly – classified as “swear words”. Because, of course, in semichristian and postchristian circles, people *do* use both “Christ!” and “Jesus Christ!” *as* swear-words (and this has been the case all the way back to the 19th century and probably earlier).
gravenimage says
This is often true, DDA—but even someone using Christ as a swear word would in most cases not be as disturbing as someone lauding Jihad.
Angemon says
That may be the case, but I never heard anyone ever saying “Go Christ yourself” or “You mother-God-er”. They’re usually used as interjections.
Liz Dansro says
Well, easy enough: Goodbye forever M&S.
BC says
simple all believers ( I am not one) can boycott M & S stores at least for this item.. They could even hold demos outside the shops if they felt inclined.
Peter says
Mainstream & Submissive
Andrew GB says
Funny though, i wouldn’t have thought M&S were the shopping destination of hairballs and bagheads. Too western, too expensive and not a great range of stone age idol worshipping clothing.
Oh well, good luck. May the PEACE of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST be with you ALWAYS.
GStQ
Lia Wissing says
Lord Carey, you should have been shocked years ago, when archbishop Williams pleaded for sharia to be incorporated into British law.
Richard Courtemanche says
Having fought the evils of WW1&2, who would have thought that Britain would be in this likely irrevocable predicament with Islamism?
Eleana says
M & S needs to be sued for religious discrimination.
Lioness says
UK Christians: you are all welcome to Canada, leave the Islamic State of England for a new life in a country with British roots and conservative government. You and your children are doomed in the UK, in a few short years you will be the minority, governed by Sharia, your women will have to wear niqabs, your churches replaced by mosques, your schools by madrasas and your daughters will be raped.
You love your whisky, but there will be no pubs. You are music lovers but music is forbidden in Islam. Your culture will be obliterated.
Leave now while you can. Remember what happened to those Jews that did not leave Germany in time to save themselves.
ECAW says
Thanks but it would only be a few years before we found ourselves in the same situation in Canada.
cs says
Jews tried to leave Germany, but passports were not issued.
bassi says
One would think that a nation of intelligent people would find a they to make the bastards pay—
BOYCOTT ALL THE F*****G m&s STORES
THERE are plenty of others to provide the same products at lower cost to the consumer.
WAKE UP BRITISH PEOPLE – YOPUR NTION IS BEING SOLD OUT
TheCountess says
The phrase, ‘the buck stops here’, means an individual. Having said that now comes the action from the action. No gun is held at anyone’s head ordering the act to purchase. The mind and attitudes come into play. People need to read ‘animal farm’. It should be mandatory reading in, say 8th grade. Just to remind us of what happens when apathy takes place. And if nothing more, to attempt to pay attention to life all around us. Did you see the elephant with muddy feet walk across the table?
Jae M says
They should be taken to court for discrimination against Christianity. Sick bastards.
jayell says
” ‘Christ’ and ‘Jesus Christ’ are banned in messages when they are ordering flowers online – but jihad is okay,” …….How times changed! Until about 2000 the UK car licensing system comprised a letter (denoting the year) followed by up to three numbers and then three letters. Around 1990 the year-letter was ‘J’, and it got into the press that the registration number ‘J1 HAD’ had been banned. At the time I hadn’t a clue what it was all about. I wonder what they’d do today?
Sam says
If UK does not like itself we can not force them to do so. Let the whole UK become Muslim which may wake up some other western countries like USA. MAYBE.
Todavia Enohado says
The obvious response is to spend your money elsewhere until Marks & Spencer apologizes and reverses its misguided policy!
The Obama Timeline author says
Well, based on the words that are not banned, I guess I can send ISIS a bunch of flowers with a card that reads, “F*** gay Mohammed, he’s a d**k.”
gravenimage says
*Hilarious*!
Mega Kovalan says
Unfortunately F*** and G** are already banned, so you can say “Screw paedophine Muhammad and your Allah.”
Mirren10 says
M & S can be contacted, here.
http://www.marksandspencer.com/s/contact-us
I’ve sent them an email telling them I will never shop there again, although it used to be my favourite.
particolor says
Make them Change their Store Signs to Arabic !! 🙂 That’ll Slow the Prophets !! 🙂
And their Advertising Brochure’s !!
Mrs Bucket …..
Peggy says
If enough people tell them they will not shop there any longer they will have to sit up and listen.
Time to let your money talk for you.
Mega Kovalan says
Every time a Palestinian solidarity or Hamas support group go protest, they scream in front of M&S to “boycott Israeli products” now M&S is joining the politically correct side? Think about cutting the branch they are sitting in…I think it’s time to boycott M&S….Sadly it will make the anti-Israel groups happy