School cancels Christmas nativity in favour of Muslim Eid celebrations

by Nick Britten
Telegraph
December 3, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/1115/school-cancels-christmas-nativity-in-favour

Excerpt:

A primary school has cancelled its Christmas nativity in favour of Muslim festival of Eid celebrations because it would be too much for the children to do both.

Greenwood Junior School sent out a letter to parents saying the three-day festival of Eid al-Adha, which takes place between December 8 and 11, meant that Muslim children would be off school.

That meant planning for the traditional nativity play were shelved because the school felt it would be too difficult to run both celebrations side by side.

The move has left parents furious.

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