Christmas carols victim of multiculti prophets

As in Sweden, several schools in Denmark have done away with or altered certain Christmas traditions out of consideration for Muslim pupils. One school, for example, has removed two verses from a Christmas psalm on the birth of Christ with the justification that they were all too "proclamatory". The conservative daily Jyllands-Posten has no understanding for such behaviour: "Christianity is a fundamental part of our national identity, and that includes the lovely Christmas psalms. If even fervent atheists can sing them with joy, it's because they remind us of our historic roots as a community. Cutting the verses is a denial of the fact that we as a nation share a valuable historical and cultural sense of togetherness. A sense that Muslims and other immigrants need not be protected from but allowed to share - irrespective of their religious affiliation. The school principal is a true representative of the sort of political correctness that appeared long before Muslim immigration."

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