http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover103105.htmOrders from Brussels:
Monday, October 31, 2005
It must be getting a little too close for Christmas for the chi-chi
crystal palace of the pretentious European Union. Pooh-bahs in Brussels
have come up with a new grammar rule for themselves and the
Netherlands--making it official that the name "Christ" will soon be
written with a lower-case "c". That was the stipulation in an
orthography reform published earlier this month in Brussels.
According to the Kath.net agency, the new spelling legislation will also
stipulate that the Dutch word for "jews" (joden) be spelled with a
capital "J" when referring to nationality and with a lower-case "j" when
referring to the religion. The changes will be mandatory in August of
2006. There is no description of the fines offenders will face if they
keep right on spelling "Christ" with a capital "C".
The new spelling regulations are coming from the same folk, who include
as one of their seat numbers in the august and austere chamber in which
they gather to prevaricate on all things politically correct, the number
666.
The European Union hierarchy may have numbered the seat 666, but at last
count no one has had the courage to actually claim the seat as their own.
At the European Union, the name of the humble carpenter from Nazareth
may be diminished by lower-case spelling, but Javier Solana, The Great
will continue to have his name spelled in capital letters.
Solana, a sort of Kofi Annan, European style, is High Representative of
the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary General
of both the European Union and the Western European Union. Note to the
media, all of his titles are to be spelled in capital letters.
EU politically correct lockstep seems to be as infectious as bird flu.
Across the ocean in faraway Florida, schools are banning Christmas and
Easter holidays in response to Muslim demands.
"Demands from the terrorist-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) for an official school recognition of a Muslim Holy Day has
resulted in the Hillsborough County School Board banning all religious
holidays–Christmas, Good Friday and Easter are off the calendar.
Any parent, whose little angel has been traumatized with nowhere to show
off her Christmas pageant wings, will have to perform for the
neighbourhood kids out in the garage this year.
The Hillsborugh County School Board and its trustees should be reminded
of author Mark Twain’s take on school boards: "In the first place God
created idiots. This was just for practice. Then he created school boards."
Meanwhile caving in to the march of the politically correct army will
someday lead to the banning of the words "hi" and "hello" on the very
likely basis that it may offend somebody who prefers to be greeted with
the words, "Assalaam Alaikum".
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