The Cultural Issues Of Christianity - 863 Words

Moving on to the cultural issues, Christianity mainly in particular faces the problem of having certain holidays such as Christmas and Easter being secularized in the UK. These holidays which are held by Christians in the UK are now pagan holidays for all faiths by introducing figures such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny respectively. As of today Christians are campaigning for Christmas and other religious holidays to be celebrated for what it really is according to BBC News (2012). When looking at Islamic festivals however, there are so little in comparison. Twice a year they have Eid. The social issue is that generally children have to attend school and people go to work as they are not considered public holidays. PRC (2014) states†¦show more content†¦This means that these cultural issues involve the UK government plan to secularize the country is resulting in reducing Christianity in the UK. For Islam, there are cultural issues such as the religion being associated with terrorism and Muslims find this as associative discrimination Carter-Esdale (2015). This is because there are extreme groups that conducted terrorist attacks in the various nations claiming that they are defending Islam. In the UK, there are some Muslims that feel that it is harder to socially integrate into society as some of them are associated with this issue. Wiseman (2014: p314) states that the extreme groups accounts for a small percentage of the Muslim population and the entire Muslim population is now generalized to be part of this issue and as a result they feel that their true intentions of Islam is now being misinterpreted. This means that Muslims are fighting for Islam to be seen as a religion of peace and not war and that they do intend to be part of society. The last cultural issue which Shah (2014: p245) shows is that there are Muslims in the UK that tend to stay together with their particular groups as a means of keeping their cultural values, faith and their identity and this is not for themselves, but for the upcoming generation on a patrilineal basis. This means the Muslim families would want to cluster together have their generation have the same