My cousin Zaki Cooper has a piece in the Guardian (see link below) in their series Face To Faith, in which he very ably and correctly points out that "some of the staunchest supporters of Christmas come from other religions". Writing as an orthodox Jew, he is supported in at least one of several comments shown by the Guardian, from a Muslim.
A parallel scenario is the depressing error made by John Major's govt - mainly to oblige Sainsburys was it? - to allow widespread shopping on Sundays - in effect this "blanked out" public recognition of the rest day as such - that is a secularisation of the "public realm" and a dissipation of the human right to rest, which has been a great loss to a humane culture in England and Wales - I am not sure how these things are symbolised in Scotland - it is worth finding out!. And, as Don Giovanni's Jeeves Leporello pointed out "Ma - in Northern Irelandia (or however they say that in Italian - thirteen thousand (Santas)
here are a few of them ....lined the walls of the city - looks like a load of ketchup ...
who supplied the costumes?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1197214026/html/1.stm
this link shows how the Guardian ran Zaki's piece, and also lets you see the modest pile of rather unimpressive comments which followed ....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2224160,00.html
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