More (Re)Education

If a school decided in early January to "belatedly mark Christmas," and ordered students and faculty to dress up and produce a Nativity play, you'd hear the howls of protest all the way the moon. So why is this OK?

Teachers at a primary school have been ordered to dress up as Muslims to promote multi-culturalism.

The West Midlands school is belatedly celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid and told its pupils and teachers to don traditional Muslim dress for the day.

A morning assembly was held to mark the event and an afternoon party was strictly for women only, because Muslim husbands object to wives mixing with other men.

Sally Bloomer, head of Rufford primary school in Lye, West Midlands, told The Sun: "I have not heard of any complaints. It's all part of a diversity project to promote multi-culturalism."

But a relative of one of the staff reportedly said: "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."

Amazing how religious and cultural influence is considered threatening when it's based on Western, Christian ideas, but enlightening from every other source. Well, nature does abhor a vacuum, so the more we throw our own heritage out...