How is it moving the goal posts to ask for some perspective to this, Twitter is full of trolls yet you only refer to their tweets, maybe it wold be nice for a change and for the Muslim community to hear that their inclusion in a Christian festival was praised, integration cuts both ways

Christmas Tesco Ad Featuring Muslims Prompts Messages Of Inclusion After Racist Backlash
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Christmas Tesco Ad Featuring Muslims Prompts Messages Of Inclusion After Racist Backlash
'The more festivities we can all enjoy together, the better.'
10/11/2017 15:44 GMT | Updated 16 hours ago
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Jasmin Gray Reporter, HuffPost UK
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Christmas lovers have been sharing their messages of sharing and inclusion after a festive Tesco ad featuring a Muslim family sparked a racist backlash.

Some customers threatened to boycott the supermarket after noticing that its Christmas included scenes of a Muslim family exchanging gifts, while others called it “very wrong”.

In response, fans of the “Everyone’s Welcome” ad have taken to social media to explain why its “wonderful to share the day with everyone,” regardless of their faith.

One man explained how his family celebrates Christmas each year with their Muslim friends.


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Tesco's festive ad sparked a backlash after viewers noticed it included scenes of a a Muslim family celebrating Christmas
“We give our Muslim neighbours’ kids Christmas presents, and they give presents to ours. We share food,” he tweeted.

“They don’t come to church, but then again we don’t go to the mosque when they have us over for Eid.

He added: “Christmas is something everyone can get involved in.”

Many Muslims also wrote about why they enjoy the festive season.

One woman wrote: “I am Muslim and I love Christmas.

“It’s so nice and it’s also cultural. I just love the tastes and smells.”



There we go let's focus on some positivity for a change

Xmas ads are basically like the Superbowl for the UK. It always makes me laugh when Brits talk shhh-it about America for the fuss about Super Bowl ads, but it's literally the same for Christmas ads in the UK, except instead of looking for something clever and funny, y'all just look for something that makes you feel any kind of emotion. Brits are desperate for something emotional.

This is a really interesting article about the 25th December https://www.islamicity.org/6407/jesu...and-christmas/

I don't see how that's relevant. Either you accept Jesus as God or not. That's the basis of the Christian religion, that Jesus was God. Kind of having reverence for him as a prophet (they also worship a pedophile prophet) is not the same thing at all.

Spoiler:

Its relevant because it explains different reasons why the 25th December is celebrated and why the 25th December is not just a Christian festival.

edited to add: most Christian faiths don't think Jesus is God. They believe Jesus was the son of God and appointed by God.

Well i'm a catholic and what you just said is blasphemous. please stop offending me now. (j/k sort of, i'm an atheist now) seriously though your protestant ways of devaluing Jesus as the living embodiment of God is offensive. he was not a symbol of God, he was actually God on earth. That is the basis of Christianity. I don't know what Christian church you went to that said that Jesus was not God. It's pretty much the whole point of the religion, no matter what branch, Jesus was God coming to earth and dying for the sins of humanity. If Jesus wasn't God then he wasn't the savior.

once again Spoiler:

It is indeed - a man-made ideology just like all religion. People can believe in what they like but when they start trying to shove it down the thoroats of the rest of us then it becomes a problem.

Can Christians stop pretending it's their holiday? It's MY holiday to stuff as many pigs in blankets down my big fat gob as I can.

who's trying to stop you?

so insensitive to muslims. Keep it halal, Asshole!

Christians stole crimbo off the pagans anyway so why are they raging.

lol

then by definition they cant be muslims

its like saying "get over it some vegetarians eat steak and bacon"

i think you need to go back and re-read your bible. Jesus was the Son of God.

what is annoying is that its just so pathetic virtue signalling to get likes (just like M&S and JL)

as TS said its cynical and treats its audience like knobs

It’s big brother trying to tell us all how to think. We are indeed being treated like children by the advertising giants.

I mean, really, advertising giants suddenly getting alll PC and ‘moral’ - pull the other one. It’s pandering to PC in the belief that is where the money is at the moment. Just don’t expect me to buy your products- patronising, hypocritical knobs.

Pathetic, only word which springs to mind really and it annoys me that companies even acknowledge it

It's acknowledged to cynically give them more publicity, are they really outraged by what Twitter trolls post, not really

Hehe... it was pigs in blankets that broke my vegetarianism. we were at my parents for Xmas. I'd wandered into the kitchen and discovered a dozen pigs in blankets and couldn't resist eating half of them. Everyone but me got the blame because I was the only vegetarian :hehe:

Will the advert stop me shopping at Tesco? No
Will the advert make me treat Muslims any differently? No
Will I continue to treat people the way I want to be treated? Yes

Will it stop me shopping at Tesco - yes cheap rubbish anyway.

Will it make me respect a religion that teaches sexism - no.

Will I continue to treat people the way I want to be treated - yes.

please explain how he is the son of god to me. he was god taking the flesh, embodying man to deliver the message, the whole point is that it was god coming to earth. did you not pay attention? you honestly can't be so dumb to not know that the entire idea of Jesus is that God was taking a mortal form to spread his messege on earth.

How did twitter users determine they were muslim? Genuine question.

That's like asking how do you know that Boris or Corbyn are numpties. even a blind man can see it.

Yh but what was the give away? Was there a quran in the background or something?

Here, here to that!

i honestly haven't seen the ad. i'm assuming they were brown or something.

Same and same!
If it comes down to people kicking up a fuss about people of a skin colour being featured in a christmas ad, we should probably focus on the twitter users who assumed their religion more than the tesco ad itself.. that seems like the bigger story here.

or the bigger story is Tesco knowing idiots would kick up a fuss, and get their ad on every news program while they talk about how inclusive and progressive Tesco is. not to be cynical or anything...

I mean, I don't think Tesco are above publicity stunts, but I don't think thats what they aimed for here. I just watched the ad, and yeh, we were kinda right. Just Twitter users getting upset after they, personally, assumed the religion of paid actors. I think the Twitter users are more of a newsworthy story than the ad tbh!

how many "twitter users" are we actually talking about?

I have no idea. I'd like to think that there wasn't many more than 2 twitter users who assumed someones religion and then got upset because they did so, but I could be wrong.

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literally, 5 racist people on twitter can get the attention of the british media to make a meal of it. and the british media will then act like they are anti-racist, while profiting off of making a meal out of 5 racist twitter posts.

in a nutshell

The judge and jury on racism. :bored: beyond belief! Some ol, same ol hateful garbage. You accuse others of ‘hate’ when you have a pretty good grip on that yourself.

This seems to be a very small selection of idiots on Twitter.It seems there were probably just as many people complaining that the ad is being shown too early or vegans complaining about it featuring turkey.Since no more than 2-3 of the same examples are given of these overly PC morons complaining about it featuring muslims.
This is in the same vein as these idiots who go on about ‘cultural appropriation’.”white people can’t where dreadlocks cos it’s jus black culture”(even though it isn’t) or “Katy Perry is culturally appropriating Chinese culture”.
It’s all anti inclusivity and it’s seen in every subsection of humans.There are alot of idiots about.
If we are all going to merge into this one super culture that the powers that be seem to be pushing then we need to learn to start accepting each others traditions and there’s nothing more accepting than joining in.
Muslims that do celebrate Christmas are integrating which is a very good thing.

But yeah as DR said Jesus was more than likely born in summer anyway.For a start sheep would’ve been under cover in the winter and i’ve also heard things about the position of the star that they all followed being only there in the summer months.

I’m with Cherie,Alex and LT on this one.It seems Tesco were looking for this reaction on social media just so they could bleet about ‘how inclusive we are’.When else do they react a couple of idiotic tweets,They’ll get complaints every day.It’s publicity.

Because none of that changes the fact that the 'controversy' of this advert is fuelled by racism and you want to downplay it because it makes you uncomfortable.

Again, you're not making much sense here. Withano's post does not contradict mine.

Money, money, money it always is!

I just watched the advert. It had a Hindu wearing a turban and a bunch of women wearing head coverings. They could be Muslim women but could equally be Orthodox Christians.

Does Christianity require women to cover their hair - that’s news to me.