Imagine the outrage if those vulgar Christmas cards poked fun at Islam instead
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By Stephen Glover for the Daily Mail 18 December 2014
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Who would want to ruin the Christmas story? One answer is stationery chain Scribbler. It is stocking some 50 Christmas cards which carry obscene, offensive or even anti-Christian messages such as those pictured
One answer is a stationery chain called Scribbler. It is stocking, by my count, some 50 Christmas cards which carry obscene, offensive or even anti-Christian messages.
Jesus Christ is shown on one card in what seems to be a ‘selfie’ pose, with the slogan ‘It is all about me’. Another card shows Jesus with his disciples saying: ‘It’s my birthday and I want a pony.’
These cards are coarse, irreverent or profane. And yet there were plenty of people buying them when I went into a Scribbler’s store in Kensington, West London, yesterday afternoon. The beauty and mystery of the Nativity are plainly lost on them.
In the same store there are cards bearing the crudity ‘Ho Ho Ho Mother F*****’. Another features Father Christmas under the slogan ‘Merry Kiss My A***’. A third says on the front ‘This Christmas Treat Yourself to some A***’.
And so on. John Proctor, who owns the Scribbler chain, had previously told the Mail that his shops put lewd cards on the higher shelves. This appears not to be the case. It certainly wasn’t in the store I visited. Young children could have easily seen them.
John Proctor, who owns Scribbler, defended the displays and said the cards were popular with young adults
The fascinating question is how it has become respectable — or almost respectable — for a High Street chain to sell such cards, and for ordinary, decent people to buy them without apparently thinking twice about it.
When asked if he would mock the Prophet Muhammad John Proctor, Scribbler's founder, said he certainly wouldn’t. ‘I wouldn’t even go there,’ he told this newspaper. ‘That would be a very silly thing to do’
The cards featuring explicit messages are stocked within full view of children in High Street stores
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'Parents should be able to shop with their children without being confronted by these products, ' said Normans Wells of the Family Education Trust
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