Purging Christianity To Please Muslims: German Schools Nix Christian Festival

One critic calls it the “Islamic conquest of the West.” Others say it’s a sign of a collapsing West. But on the heels of astory about European churches removing crosses to accommodate Muslim migrants comes another in the same vein: Some German primary schools and daycare centers are renaming a traditional Christian festival to avoid “offending” Islamic newcomers.

This latest victim of political correctness is St. Martin’s Day, also known as the Feast of St. Martin. Held on November 11 after the harvest, it’s a traditional autumn event on the Christian calendar. But just as how American school calendars long ago renamed the Christmas and Easter breaks, respectively, “winter” and “spring” breaks, secular forces in Germany see fit to further de-Christianize their nation. And the new committee-worthy name they’ve chosen for the feast day is the “Festival of Lights.” Reports Breitbart:

The Acting Headmistress of Salesian Montessori Community School in Oberkassel, Nanette Weidelt, told the Rheinische Postthat the new name had been adopted, “in order to facilitate integration”.

… The head of the German Red Cross in Gerresheim said her institution had also made the change: “We have deliberately chosen [the new name] because we want the meaning of integration and unity to reach as many children as possible, and because more people will participate in our procession”.

Not surprisingly, though, the movement to rename St. Martin’s Day is nothing new. As this Epoch Times article points out (text put through Google translate and edited for grammar and style), “The leftist politician Rüdiger Sagel struck two years ago [and said] … the festival should be renamed ‘Sun, Moon and Stars’…. Such changes should be made because there are different religions, in particular a high proportion of Muslim children, in day care centers. ‘You should not impose the Christian tradition,’ Sagel said at the time.”

Yet while some blame only Muslims and others only leftists, the West’s problems are systemic; they wouldn’t be happening were it not for, as British statesman Edmund Burke would have said, the “good men [who] do nothing.” As the Wall Street Journal’s Bret Stephens put it recently:

Europe is reaching its end not because of its sclerotic economy, or stagnant demography, or the dysfunctions of the superstate. Nor is the real cause the massive influx of Middle Eastern and African migrants. Those desperate people are just the latest stiff breeze against the timber of a desiccated civilization.

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Europe is dying because it has become morally incompetent. It isn’t that Europe stands for nothing. It’s that it stands for shallow things, shallowly. Europeans believe in human rights, tolerance, openness, peace, progress, the environment, pleasure. These beliefs are all very nice, but they are also secondary.

Stephens went on to say, “What Europeans no longer believe in are the things from which their beliefs spring” — such as Christianity. Speaking of which and “shallow things, shallowly,” the St. Martin’s fiasco reminds me of a Seinfeld episode in which the George Costanza character, struggling to define his relationship with his girlfriend, learns they both like gum and says excitedly that they’re “about…gum!” It may seem a silly reference, but is it far less silly than what’s occurring here? Breitbart also tells us that a “long-established custom is for communities to gather around a bonfire on St. Martin’s eve, called “Martinsfeuer,” followed by a lantern procession through the local conurbation.” And now the Sensitivity Police have removed all reference to the feast’s Christian substance and given us the “Festival of Lights.”

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