EU criticized over ‘Christian-free’ school diary

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France attacked the European Commission on Wednesday for producing three million copies of an EU diary for schools that contains no reference to Christmas but includes Jewish and Muslim festivities.

“Are we ashamed of our Christian identity?” France’s Minister of European Affairs Laurent Wauquiez asked at a press briefing. “Are we ashamed that the Europe of church towers was the base of our European identity?”

But he stopped short of demanding that the commission recall the 2010-2011 diary that has been sent out to schools across the 27-state bloc, saying he would be satisfied if next year’s diary corrects the omission.

The diary section for December 25 is blank and the bottom of the page is marked only with the secular message: “A true friend is someone who shares your concerns and will double your joy,” London’s Telegraph reports.

A commission spokesman in Brussels, Frederic Vincent, said that the “blunder” would not be repeated in future editions, possibly by eliminating all mentions of religion

Read more: http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/01/12/eu-criticized-over-%e2%80%98christian-free%e2%80%99-school-diary/#ixzz1AqslA7wi

way to go EU :cantbeli:

[Leaper]

Reeeepost!

[Victis Honor]

damn lefties tryign to be PC all the time.

[Ordie]

France is the most anti-clerical country in Europe.

[BAF]

Yeah well they think that are so ****ing pc with this kind of bull****. But whatever the hell they try i will not forget my heritage (this is what they try to achieve) and nobody is going to stop me from celebrating christians holidays.

[Sarig]

What the ****. Glad we're not in the damn EU - we've got a proper national church here :p And we're secularised, baby! It makes no sense, but it works. The EU should stop trying too hard.

[Enosh]

ommiting christian holidays while putting in all the other religious holidays isn't a "blunder" it's an ommision made on porpuse, I generaly like the EU, but they can go **** themself with multicultural bull**** like that

hell I can't even call it multicultural, multi in the multicultural part is suposed to include all the cultures, christianity included, this thing here it's blantly anti western and anti christian, made by some leftist piece of **** that wants the majority of people in the EU to ignore their history and heritage

[saturnin]

France is the most anti-clerical country in Europe.

I see, you are expert on EU. Repost btw.

[IconOfEvi]

Very much repost.

My whole response to this was in the old thread.

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Can someone post a link to the original thread? Can't be that old since France protest was made yestedaY...


France is the most anti-clerical country in Europe.

Lol ok... Then EU is even worst than France apparently

[joka]

[I]France attacked the European Commission on Wednesday for producing three million copies of an EU diary for schools that contains no reference to Christmas but includes Jewish and Muslim festivities.

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/empowerment/cons_education_en.htm

I can't find any references to Jewish or Muslim festivities. There's a picture of someone who looks like an Arab in relation to external affairs though.
Apparently this "EU diary" is just meant to give out basic information about The EU, why would you need to tangle up Christmas with that?

[WKD]

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/empowerment/cons_education_en.htm

I can't find any references to Jewish or Muslim festivities. There's a picture of someone who looks like an Arab in relation to external affairs though.
Apparently this "EU diary" is just meant to give out basic information about The EU, why would you need to tangle up Christmas with that?

Why would you need to tangle up the holidays of minorities with that either?

[joka]

Why would you need to tangle up the holidays of minorities with that either?

Yeah, I don't know if you read the first part what I wrote, but I certainly can't find any references to Muslim or Jewish holidays in this diary.

[Enosh]

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/empowerment/cons_education_en.htm

I can't find any references to Jewish or Muslim festivities. There's a picture of someone who looks like an Arab in relation to external affairs though.
Apparently this "EU diary" is just meant to give out basic information about The EU, why would you need to tangle up Christmas with that?
I assume the full version of the diary includes a calendar, since the original article is talking about december 25th, a calendar that is for logical reason left out of the internet version

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I assume the full version of the diary includes a calendar, since the original article is talking about december 25th, a calendar that is for logical reason left out of the internet version

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On french Tv they showed actual callendar pages with important Jewish and Muslim dates listed but no Christian ones

[Atlantic Friend]

France is the most anti-clerical country in Europe.

That's why we resent the EU's attempt to out-anticlerical us. Bring us back the Christian holidays, you bastards, so we can ignore them again!

[Telmar]

This is more than a "mistake" but a provocation. Someone thought it might be funny. How can one ignore what day is Christmas day?

[Derbedeu]

Can someone post a link to the original thread? Can't be that old since France protest was made yestedaY...



Three weeks old, and devolved into a religious debate, like all of these threads eventually do.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?191522-European-Commission-Cancels-Chrismas&highlight=Calendar

[Ordie]

That's why we resent the EU's attempt to out-anticlerical us. Bring us back the Christian holidays, you bastards, so we can ignore them again!

I only care about St. Patricks Day.

An excuse to drink green beer, on an otherwise holiday-less March.