Oh, Oh, O-Gag, cough, mmm.mmmmm - Charity Christmas Music CD banned by The Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Frank O'Donnell is reporting for The Scotsman and writes that one-hundred-fifty copies of a Christmas CD donated to the hospital to give to sick children spending the holidays in the hospital has been banned by the hospital administration.
The reason? They fear upsetting people who don't celebrate Christmas particularly because one of the songs mentions Jesus.
But this may have backfired because a Muslim Cleric has spoken out against the ban.
O'Donnell writes:
The ban is being seen as the latest attempt to de-Christianise Christmas and was yesterday condemned by Bashir Maan, a prominent Muslim leader."If somebody doesn’t want to listen to this, they don’t have to. This is political correctness gone mad," he said. "It is going too far and it is going to be counterproductive.
"This is Christmas time and the overwhelming majority of the people in this country are Christians. If people want to celebrate then they should have the right, as should minority groups. But if the freedom is only one-sided, then the majority will be offended."
O'Donnell goes on to report that the Scottish Parliament went as far as to ban Christmas cards that were too traditional. They went as far as to say that Christmas cards could not have the words, "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year" because that would exclude certain peoples.
The Great Separation continues.
