to be pissed off with some of the parents at nursery who have complained about todays halloween theme?

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the nursery organised for this morning a craft morning that mums could stay to with the kids making spiders and ghosts etc. Kids were also asked to wear black and bring something black in for 'show and tell'. Its a different colour every week but black today for halloween (last day of nursery til saturday)
Well lots of us mums turned up and joined in the fun/chaos but quite a few didn't come and kept their kids off complaining it shouldn't be allowed as its religious! (we are in middle east!) but its a BRITISH COMPOUND AND A BRITISH NURSERY! We have ramadam rammed down our throats and have to comply with that, we let the kids celebrate eid, divali, hanaka and numerous other religious days out of respect for the other religions and cultures here but then we get criticised for a halloween theme! Am I being unreasonable?????? Time to go home I think!

LOL! Ripeberry is right. I would want out before Christmas.

Having read the thread properly, I am a bit confused now. Is it true that the children are allowed to celebrate Hanukkah but not Christmas? It does seem a bit odd for a Middle Eastern country to be OK about a Jewish festival, but not a Christian one. Who is doing the protesting? British Muslims? Local Muslims? Christians who don't like Halloween or people who just like things to be secular?

I'm 33, a complete wuss and a practising Christian, so not a huge fan of halloween, and think trick or treating is abhorrent.

That said I've duly dressed DD as a black cat and dropped her off at nursery for a themed morning, and when she comes back will be carving the pumpkin donated by great grandad and making halloween biscuits and spider picture - because it's a bit of fun!

Why people can't take these things a bit less seriously and just live and let live is beyond me...

That said, anyone who feels strongly about it shouldn't be made to feel bad for avoiding it - that's their decision too, after all...

Oh dear. Do muslims believe that when you visit another country you should leave your religion behind?

I mean I wouldn't dream of arguing with them. I'm sure that's exactly how it should be if they say so.

A BRITISH compound is still part of the country as a whole. It is not a little piece of Britain transported abroad complete with its own laws, customs etc - unless it is the British Embassy.

It is unreasonable to expect people in other countries to run them to suit or even tolerate other faiths, traditions etc just cause it is what we do in the UK (to a greater or lesser extent). We may chose to be tolerant, they may choose not to be. If you don't like it, leave.