Out of fear of the Religion of Peace™: Christian charity bans Christmas themed children’s gifts.
Operation Christmas Child, run by the charity Samaritan’s Purse, sends festive packages to deprived youngsters in countries ravaged by war and famine.
Donors are asked to pack shoeboxes with a cuddly toy, a toothbrush and toothpaste, soap and flannel, notepads, colouring books and crayons - but nothing to do with Christmas. Stories from the Bible, images of Jesus and any other Christian literature are expressely forbidden - in case Muslims are offended.
Yesterday the charity’s policy of censoring its own faith was described as political correctness gone mad.
Last Christmas, Britons filled 1.13 million shoeboxes for Samaritan’s Purse to send to children abroad.
But Barbara Hill, who works at the worldwide charity’s UK headquarters in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, said: "Anything we find in the boxes which has a religious nature will be removed. If a box was opened by a Muslim child in a Muslim country they may be offended so we try to avoid religious images."
The charity has also banned war-related items such as Action Man-type figures, as well as chocolate and cake.
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