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I was reading this article about "Santa Claus" being banned from a school in Minnesota because it "offended" Somalis but after reading the article the parents of the Somalis never said they were offended but that if Santa Claus was coming they would "like it" if they're kids could do something else during that time. They never said ban Santa for everyone and even added tolerance is a two way street. But the School officials banned it altogether getting this reaction from the Somali parents:

Adam said every family no matter race or religion has a right to air concerns, but he feels it was inappropriate, given the known facts, for Head Start to single out one ethnic group as the reason for its action.

Adam and Ahmed said they’re in agreement with Jackson’s proposed solution — that any parents who didn’t want their children involved with Santa could have them sequestered for that portion of the school day.

http://hiiraan.com/news2/2010/Dec/somal ... _flap.aspx

Given what we know about the decades long culture war in this country starting from Roe v. Wade between Liberals and Conservatives and especially knowing education is controlled by Liberals, are we cannon fodder in this ongoing war? There are lawsuits all over the country about "under God" in pledge of allegiance to other things and I would think Somalis need to tread carefully before embroiling themselves in a war bigger than them.

Neither my parents nor I gave a two hoots about Santa Clause coming to school or saying Happy Christmas or getting candy canes but these straight from refugee immigrants of our part of society from rural areas are quacking all over the place being used like sacrificial lambs.

They are deliberatly trying to make Somalis hated. That is why. The same thing is happening in Sweden, but its muslims. Some fully veiled girl wants to be a teacher. The school board told her, its not possible unless she shows her face to the students. She complained

Retarded

santa is pagan and has nothing to do with Jesus or christianity. i saw burn santa from all schools and everywhere.

Jesus was born in the summer not winter, duh!

Those sort of stories are very common in Europe, i dont know if it is due to the liberals undermining religion or the right wing press wanting to create hostility towards minorities. I dont know a single Muslim who has a problem with xmas decoration, celebrations or bibles in hotel rooms (all things apparently we muslims are against)

santa was created by the business industry , everything he does is delivery gifts to children
and this ideology will make every kid wants gift from Santa it's obviously parents.

Parents don't have choice but to spend money on toys and such
it's part of the economy of the western world, this is the time where all the companies take advantage of and Santa is the
key to attract families to spend more money