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UK department store bans “Christ” in flower messages, but “jihad” is OK

Mar 1, 2015 5:59 pm By Robert Spencer

Marks_&_SpencerSupporters 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.’…

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  1. Angemon says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 6:32 pm

    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.’

    Keep importing and empowering adherents of a faith whose core teachings diss Christianity and see how that works out for you…

    • Spot On says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 3:04 pm

      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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 5:04 pm

      Lord Carey thinks that Britain is a “Christian land”? If only!

  2. Paul says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 6:34 pm

    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.

  3. Babs says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 4:01 am

      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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 10:05 am

      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.

  4. solomon says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    This is as ridiculous as it can get.

  5. solomon says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    Ridiculously insane.

  6. mortimer says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 8:53 pm

    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

      Mar 1, 2015 at 9:04 pm

      In the year 2000, they renamed the St Michael clothing line (which had been named after one of the Jewish founders Michael Marks!)
      ‘
      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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 2:44 pm

      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?

  7. Zimriel says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    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

      Mar 1, 2015 at 10:01 pm

      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.

  8. somehistory says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 9:38 pm

    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?

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 3:01 am

      “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 ?

  10. Sam says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 10:52 pm

    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.

  11. pumbar says

    Mar 1, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    I thought Britain was finished? Isn’t this report redundant?

  12. Daniel K says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:29 am

    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?

  13. Donovan Nuera says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:45 am

    It should be called Marx & Spencer……. Happy Jihad, D**kheads!

  14. duh_swami says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:20 am

    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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 11:42 am

      Because FOR A FACT it IS!

      • deja vu says

        Mar 2, 2015 at 10:12 pm

        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?

  15. dumbledoresarmy says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 3:24 am

    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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 8:54 pm

      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

      Mar 4, 2015 at 3:46 pm

      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.

  16. Liz Dansro says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 6:09 am

    Well, easy enough: Goodbye forever M&S.

  17. BC says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 7:25 am

    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.

  18. Peter says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 8:03 am

    Mainstream & Submissive

  19. Andrew GB says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 8:04 am

    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

  20. Lia Wissing says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:26 am

    Lord Carey, you should have been shocked years ago, when archbishop Williams pleaded for sharia to be incorporated into British law.

  21. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:29 am

    Having fought the evils of WW1&2, who would have thought that Britain would be in this likely irrevocable predicament with Islamism?

  22. Eleana says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 9:55 am

    M & S needs to be sued for religious discrimination.

  23. Lioness says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 10:51 am

    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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 11:46 am

      Thanks but it would only be a few years before we found ourselves in the same situation in Canada.

    • cs says

      Mar 2, 2015 at 4:23 pm

      Jews tried to leave Germany, but passports were not issued.

  24. bassi says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 11:11 am

    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

  25. TheCountess says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 11:32 am

    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?

  26. Jae M says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:33 pm

    They should be taken to court for discrimination against Christianity. Sick bastards.

  27. jayell says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    ” ‘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?

  28. Sam says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    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.

  29. Todavia Enohado says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    The obvious response is to spend your money elsewhere until Marks & Spencer apologizes and reverses its misguided policy!

  30. The Obama Timeline author says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 7:00 pm

    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

      Mar 2, 2015 at 9:47 pm

      *Hilarious*!

    • Mega Kovalan says

      Mar 4, 2015 at 7:38 am

      Unfortunately F*** and G** are already banned, so you can say “Screw paedophine Muhammad and your Allah.”

  31. Mirren10 says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 10:53 pm

    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

      Mar 3, 2015 at 5:37 am

      Make them Change their Store Signs to Arabic !! 🙂 That’ll Slow the Prophets !! 🙂
      And their Advertising Brochure’s !!
      Mrs Bucket …..

  32. Peggy says

    Mar 2, 2015 at 11:48 pm

    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.

  33. Mega Kovalan says

    Mar 4, 2015 at 7:36 am

    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

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