Where's the Coca Cola Xmas truck advert gone?!

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  1. JIMI

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    HAHAHA i forgot what the video was like :lol: :lol:
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    Someone's been reading the Daily Mail too much. :lol: :p
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    Yes and what I am saying is that it really doesn't exist as much as you think. We are not going to change the timeline from "BC" incase it offends people. Christmas is not banned. Cities still have decorations that say "Happy Christmas". You can still say brainstorm. Noone is stopping you people just think that they are.

    It's hype because people love to talk about hating it and the media love these people lapping it up and buying their newspapers. A teacher that posts on here even admitted that none of the kids sing bar bar wooly sheep. Positions of authority are generally not even asking people to do these things it's sensationalist, tabloid shite.
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    Why would a muslim make a speech about christmas?
    Thats gay as fuck.
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    Does no-one have a sense of humour anymore?
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    that's a disgrace :mad:
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    why indeed?:confused:
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    Because they don't celebrate christmas.
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    Which is why it's ironic.
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    How do you know?
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    Im sure when you walk down newcastle high street you can just feel the evil vibe those muslims are spreading through our great country. Im sure you can see the devastation they are doing around the one truly british tradition left!!!!

    ... Or maybe its just something the newspapers would like you to think eh ;)
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    Muslims don't celebrate Christmas because they are not Christians.

    Theoretically they don't.. they might get in on the present giving etc.. but for them there is no meaning to it.
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    I'm not a muslim but I give presents with not alot of meaning in it.
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    I'm an Atheist and do the same.
    Just saying it seems a bit weird for a member of one religion to give a speech on another religion..
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    I celebrate Christmas because I was brought up in a society that does. It has nothing to do with me being Christian as I am not a Christian in anyway.

    Unless you are literally celebrating the birth of Christ, it has as much meaning for them as it does for anyone else and plenty of Muslims celebrate Christmas for that reason.
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    I'm sure they'd celebrate the death of Christ rather than the birth of him.
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    Just seems a bit wierd.
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    Not much meaning in it for me either
  20. GeordieLee

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    Just read this in Media Guardian and it reminded me of this thread :lol:

    'TIS THE SEASON TO BASH MUSLIMS

    Christmas is the perfect season for two things: re-runs and silly publicity stunts. Combine the two in media-land and what do you get? The annual slew of screaming "Christmas has been banned!" headlines of course, which now resurface as regular as clockwork. Usually all "ethnics" and their politically correct co-conspirators are blamed. This year, given the spotlight they have been placed under, it has almost universally been made into a Muslim issue.

    The farcical charade usually plays out as follows. A tabloid makes the outraged claim on its front page. Muslims complain they have nothing to do with it. "Oh yes you have," say the press, pointing to the fictitious PC brigade apparently too scared to offend anyone with anything as scandalous as some tinsel and flashing lights.

    The Sun inevitably starts a campaign to catch out these do-gooders and "reclaim Christmas". Politicians fuel the controversy by stepping forward and reassuring everyone that all this is "pure nonsense". Mr Ahmed from the local cornershop has to keep increasing the visibility of his Christmas decorations every year to reassure customers, until there will come a point when he starts selling newspapers dressed in a Santa outfit.

    Maybe there is an opportunity here for an enterprising group of Muslim students to declare they hate Christmas so the tabloids can finally find someone to point fingers at. They could then make some nice money doing print and tele-vision interviews. At least everyone's happy and the Sun's campaign could begin to make sense.

    "But we love Christmas," a Muslim friend tells me. "You get days off, cheap deals on shopping and a chance to get together with the family. What's there not to like?"

    Maybe Channel 4 executives were thinking along the same lines when they invited 33-year-old Khadija Ravat, who apparently adores the Queen and "being British", to present the alternative Christmas message wearing her veil. Surely only hardened cynics would call it an obvious publicity stunt.

    Except, rather like the fictitiously banned piggy banks, the only losers in these publicity stunts will be Muslims, who will be blamed in phone-in debates, despite playing no part in this annual charade.

    Last year I received a call from a radio producer anxiously chasing up a story on a council that had apparently re-branded its decorations "Winter Lights". He wondered if I knew any Muslim who found Christmas celebrations alienating because he could not find any that did. Needless to say I could not help either.

    Maybe some other students could argue that, by virtue of demanding a ban on Christmas trees, tinsel and even Santa Claus, they are trying to bring back the original Christian meaning behind this secularised festival? But that might go right over the head of most Sun readers.

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