Okay, both sides of this needed to stop being so bloody childish.
1. The two muslims don't have to be so nasty and sarcastic to her fiance. He's just being friendly, and didn't mean to offend. So, acting as if it WAS offensive would be very uppity, self-righteous and childish.
2. The christian fellow, if he DID end up offending them, only has to respond with "Oh, I was only being friendly for goodness' sake!"
And, his fiancee, the commentor, is a bitch if she thinks offensive comments are okay.
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The fact that people are now ranting over something like this is fucking pathetic. Like I said, "Merry Christmas" is only a friendly greeting. How is he supposed to know that the customers were muslims?
Let's not forget that they're just as bad as he was for getting all self-righteous and uppity AS IF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO KNOW THEY WEREN'T CHRISTIAN!!
I had this conversation myself, once:
"Merry Christmas. mate."
"Hey, asshole! I'm NOT a Christian! It's supposed to be 'happy holidays'!"
"Jesus, alright. Calm down! I'm only being friendly!"
"Fuuuuuck you!"
Talk about pathetic.
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Both the christian and the muslim pair are pathetic. BOTH.
I will admit, people on this site tend to go more for the Christians than the muslims, Jews, etc., even in a scenario where the members of the other religion are just as bad.
It's pathetic. Just pathetic.
All of you. Stop it. Stop making such a big bloody deal over something so minor (which isn't even a problem in the rest of the world anyway, only in America where you like to have huge arguments over everything). Both sides, whether advocating it or protesting it, regardless of their motives, are pathetic, because it all boils down to the following.
Christian bitch: "My fiance used a goodwill gesture offensively! Snicker!"
Two muslims: "Gasp! That's horrible! He gave us a CHRISTIAN goodwill gesture, even thouGh we're MUSLIM! That's AWFUL! Even though it clearly was meant to be a NICE THING TO SAY, and he DIDN'T KNOW that we were muslims! But I DON'T CARE! LET'S BE NASTY! HOW MATURE!"
And you lot on FSTDT: "FUK U UR BAD 4 SAYIN MERRY XMAS BCOS SOME PPL MIGHT BE OFFNDED BY THAT EVEN THOUGH THEY DONT HAVE TEH COMMON SENSE TO REALISE U JUST MEANT THAT AS A GOODWILL GESTURE, AND DISN'T KNOW THEIR RELIGION!"
Just- just stop it. All of you. Now. Grow up.