MAIL ONLINE: Father Christmas has been banned from visiting a children's nursery after a Muslim family complained.
For the last four years, Dennis Jackson has donned a beard and red-and-white costume to hand out presents at the St Peter's Head Start Programme in Minnesota.
But this year he was told he wasn't welcome after objections from a Somali family.
'It kind of burnt me up,' Mr Jackson said, after being banned by officials at the Head Start Programme.
They had told him 'it was against some people’s wishes' for him to make the half-hour appearances for two classes, for about three dozen children all aged three and four.
According to the regional coordinator for the Minnesota Valley Action Council, Chris Marben, at least one Muslim family complained of his visit. Father Christmas banned at children's centre after Muslim family complained >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Monday, January 03, 2011
