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5 Things You Need to Know Today: Dec. 3

Town Hall's front lawn is decorated with holiday spirit.

 

1.     Wellesley Patch is looking for volunteer opportunities either in or near Wellesley. E-mail the editor with ideas.

2.     Speaking of around Wellesley, the Mary Ann Morse Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Natick is holding its 18th annual holiday fair today from 9 a.m. 2:30 p.m. There will be crafts, confections and more. The event is open to the public.

3.     Wellesley College's event calendar is in full swing once again. Tonight singer Faye Alibocus will perform at the Houghton Chapel. Trinidad-and-Tabagoan born Alibocus has performed a variety of vocal styles for most of her adult life. The concert is tonight at 7:30 p.m. and free. Click here for more.

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5.     In front of Wellesley Town Hall there sites a menorah, Christmas Tree and crescent moon to represent Hanukkah, Christmas, and Ramadan respectively.

About this column: "5 Things You Need to Know Today," is a morning column that provides readers with essential, daily information at a glance in Wellesley.

Tips

10:56 am on Friday, December 3, 2010

Re: Display in front of Town Hall. Ramadan ended in September. This is the season of Christmas and Hanukka. Putting a crescent moon with the menorah and a Christmas tree makes absolutely no sense. I guess political correctness has replaced common sense in this Town.

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Bret Silverberg

12:20 pm on Friday, December 3, 2010

Word from Town Hall is though the crescent moon is positioned next to the Christmas Tree and menorah, it is just a "symbol of the Muslim faith."

Tips

12:39 pm on Friday, December 3, 2010

Seems like a weak argument. If this is just a display honoring various religions, why are the other prominent religions left out? I am sure that there are many Buddhist and Hindu people in Wellesley.

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Bret Silverberg

12:43 pm on Friday, December 3, 2010

You raise an interesting point, Tips. We'll try to get you an answer.

Dennis Noonan

7:29 pm on Saturday, December 4, 2010

Since when is a spruce tree a symbol of Christianity? The tradition of decorating trees came from the Pagans. The hodgepodge display at the Town Hall seems to me to be misguded attempt to be politically correct. Anyway, Merry Christmas to all. There, I've said it.

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JB

11:51 am on Saturday, December 18, 2010

It is a fact that Christain and Jewish faiths are not compatible with Islam or Shariah. An Islamic objective is to dispense with (and monitarily tax) other faiths. Islam wants Isreal "pushed into the sea". It's too bad that this crescent sign can stand peacfully next to a manorah while those that it represents would wish to tear that manorah down. Merry Christmas.

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Kaelin

2:23 pm on Saturday, December 18, 2010

Grotesque and senseless to place an Islamic symbol next to a Christmas tree and a Menorah. We have become such dhimmis. What's the deal, Wellesley, did CAIR threaten a lawsuit?

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Robert Taylor

3:15 pm on Saturday, December 18, 2010

If the crescent moon wasn't acknowledged muslims would complain and sue and scream islamophobia. Try putting up a Christmas tree in muslim majority nation... Or the Star of David in Malmo, Sweden. You'll end up dead, legally.

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free speech

4:27 pm on Saturday, December 18, 2010

The slaves-to-Islam citizens of Wellesley actually put up a crescent moon, symbol of the Muslims' pagan moon god, next to a Christmas tree, an evergreen, symbolizing Jesus, and a Jewish Menorah.

Unbelievable. You pathetic slaves to mass-murdering Islam. Shame on you. America is NOT a Muslim country - THANK GOD. Which is why we're so great. Look at the Muslim countries - you think we should be like them?

In Islam Jesus is nothing but a slave to Allah. A slave. And of course everyone knows that Jew-hating is mandatory in Islam. Read the Koran - A Manual of Jew/Christian-hating.

Whoever put up that moon has sawdust for brains, and is a slave to the Barbarians.

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cwwc

5:41 pm on Saturday, December 18, 2010

Disgusting that the crecsent is up! They would never let a cross up in their countries and they would kill if they saw a manora.

Down with political correctness and the crecsent!

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Richard Cannon

6:18 pm on Saturday, December 18, 2010

It was a mistake to put up the crescent moon at this time of the year since Ramadan ended in September. Now the Town Hall is stuck trying to justify their stupidity. Actually, it would be a mistake to put up a symbol of Islam at any time of the year, seeing how Islam is an ideology of violence masquerading as a religion.

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JB

7:55 pm on Saturday, December 18, 2010

Political correctness is a weapon we have handed our domestic enemies. Law suits, legal actions, political pressure, using our system against itself. "By their hands..." The Quran.

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Dan Seidel

5:29 pm on Sunday, December 19, 2010

al wala' w'al bara!! yeah.......

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