The Omission of Jesus getting people upset
Well, this sounds like a familiar story... a teacher with some Muslim students tells her students that they can replace "Jesus" in a Christmas song with "virtue," and everyone gets in a tizzy. Sounds like something that could be happening anyway in Anglo-North America, doesn't it. But there is a fine twist to this one.
It's happening in Italy... one of the great centers of the Catholic world. And the Pope is not amused. Neither is the Mayor of the town where this happened or the brother of the Prime Minister who runs Il Giornale, a national paper in that country.
This follows a court ruling(this sounds really familiar doesn't it), that a crucifix had to be removed from a school wall.
And the funny thing is... the Muslim students apparently commented that they didn't mind singing Jesus in the songs, and they are quite willing to do so, sort of cutting this controversy off at the knees, but it still means that there might be a next time.