Diversity is so awesome, lets all conform.A SCHOOL was yesterday accused of MAKING teachers dress up as Asians for a day – to celebrate a Muslim festival.
Kids at the 257-pupil primary have also been told to don ethnic garb even though most are Christians.
The morning assembly will be open to all parents – but dads are BARRED from a women-only party in the afternoon because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.
Just two members of staff – a part-time teacher and a teaching assistant – are Muslim.
Yesterday a relative of one of the 39 others said: “Staff have got to go along with it – or let’s face it, they would be branded racist.
“Who would put their job on the line? They have been told they have to embrace the day to show their diversity. But they are not all happy.”
The day aims to belatedly mark Eid, the end of Ramadan.
Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, insisted: “I have not heard of any complaints.
“It’s all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism.”
School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
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School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Traditional Asian garb?..like business suits?
Let's honor a race by stereotyping them!
Let's honor a race by stereotyping them!
Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
And in The Sun too, a paper known world wide for tits, I mean sensationalism, ermm I mean fair and balanced reporting.
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Learning about another person's holiday through celebrating it seems like a good and fun idea to me.
I would've gone along with this hapily.
I would've gone along with this hapily.
Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Me too!Animalor wrote:Learning about another person's holiday through celebrating it seems like a good and fun idea to me.
I would've gone along with this hapily.
But when do they have to dress up like me and pretend to be Christian?
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Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
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Beautifully put.Mak wrote:Me too!Animalor wrote:Learning about another person's holiday through celebrating it seems like a good and fun idea to me.
I would've gone along with this hapily.
But when do they have to dress up like me and pretend to be Christian?
Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
In traditional Christian dress?

Though, I do feel for you as a misunderstood minority... middle aged white male Christians have a hell of a time

Though, I do feel for you as a misunderstood minority... middle aged white male Christians have a hell of a time

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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
You Googled "wife beater" and posted that instead of this??? (NWS if you work in a church, otherwise it should be ok...)
Turn in your man card, sir.
Turn in your man card, sir.
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Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Keeley FTW!Mak wrote:You Googled "wife beater" and posted that instead of this??? (NWS if you work in a church, otherwise it should be ok...)
Turn in your man card, sir.
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Despite the fact that the sun is a joke of a paper, it's actually more of a joke how absurd Britain has become in terms of doing ridiculous things like this in an attempt to show how tolerant everyone is, actually causing more problems than it solves.
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I am guessing you don't have a job.Mak wrote:(NWS if you work in a church, otherwise it should be ok...)
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Living in North America and Western Europe, they're immersed in Christian/Catholic custure so much that it's part of their daily lives as is anyways.Mak wrote:Me too!Animalor wrote:Learning about another person's holiday through celebrating it seems like a good and fun idea to me.
I would've gone along with this hapily.
But when do they have to dress up like me and pretend to be Christian?
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Every day.Mak wrote:Me too!
But when do they have to dress up like me and pretend to be Christian?
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
I've been gainfully employed since the early 80's, thanks.Boogahz wrote:I am guessing you don't have a job.Mak wrote:(NWS if you work in a church, otherwise it should be ok...)
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Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Ah, ok- so the riots all over Europe over things like school dress codes are just coincidence?miir wrote:Every day.Mak wrote:Me too!
But when do they have to dress up like me and pretend to be Christian?
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Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
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Are you trying to prove my point for me?Mak wrote:Ah, ok- so the riots all over Europe over things like school dress codes are just coincidence?miir wrote:Every day.Mak wrote:Me too!
But when do they have to dress up like me and pretend to be Christian?
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
Well, if your point is that "diversity" seems to be truly applied in only one direction- WASPs --> Everyone Else then yes, I am trying to prove your point for you.
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Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
Too often it seems it is the peaceful and innocent who are slaughtered. In this a lesson may be found that it may not be prudential to be either too peaceful or too innocent. One does not survive with wolves by becoming a sheep.
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Re: School forces Muslim apparel for end of Ramadan
I have a problem with any act that seeks to segregate based on sex. It's one thing if you do it in your mikvah or mosque or whatever, but when segregated proceedings are brought into supposedly secular organizations, I call bullshit. Fuck Muslims if they don't want to live in an egalitarian society.
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