An Oxford college has been implicated of attempting to “cancel” a dinner in honour of the Christian tutelary saint of England in favour of an Islamic holiday.
This year, Magdalen College, a 15th-century constituent college of the University of Oxford, will not hold a supper on April 23rd to celebrate the feast day of St George, the Christian patron saint of England.
Instead, according to London’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Magdalen will hold a formal dinner to mark the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr– the main end of the holy month of Ramadan– in spite of the celebration day actually coming 2 days previously on the 21st.
In an e-mail sent out to students obtained by the broadsheet, the vice president of the college, Professor Nick Stargardt welcomed trainees and guests to “celebrate Eid with a festive supper in the Hall,” and stated that “the meal will follow Muslim customizeds: the meat dish will be halal and no alcohol will be served”.
The college has actually rejected that it had an annual custom of having a dinner to mark St George’s Day, which, unlike Eid, actually falls on the 23rd of this year. However, the Telegraph declared to have seen proof of the supper being held in a minimum of each of the four years preceding the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
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Magdalen was implicated of attempting to “cancel” the Christian holiday, consisting of a wear at the college speaking on condition of privacy, who stated: “The cancelling of St George’s Day is yet another example of the deep antipathy that the leaders of a lot of Britain’s scholastic institutions seem to feel towards the nation that built and preserves them.”
Teacher Robert Tombs of Cambridge University added: “It’s a good concept to commemorate Eid, specifically on the best day. However the idea that one celebration need to replace another which some events deserve being continued and others must be stopped is troubling.
“Specifically the concept that an English celebration somehow is not appropriate, is worrying in an English college at an English university.”
A spokesperson for Magdalen College said that the school still intends to fly the flag of St George on the feast day, declaring that “the College celebrates all the significant Christian festivals and saints’ days”.
The Oxford college has a history of enjoying woke purges, with trainees enacting 2021 to remove a picture of Queen Elizabeth II, under the guise that she represented “current colonial history“.
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