Lost Horizons

Interstellar Day of Tolerance

Two self-acclaimed Jedi Knights want their faith to be formally recognised.
Umada and Yunyun, also known as John Wilkinson and Charlotte Law, want the UN to acknowledge Jedi is worthy of being called a religion.
It comes after 400,000 people recorded it as their faith in the 2001 Census.
They also want today's International Day for Tolerance renamed Interstellar Day of Tolerance.
Umada and Yunyun said: "For the last ten years the United Nations has marked the International Day of Tolerance. While we support this important work, we feel the UN needs to move with the times.
"Like the UN, the Jedi Knights are peacekeepers and we feel we have the basic right to express our religion through wearing our robes, and to be recognised by the national and international community.
"We therefore are calling upon the United Nations Association to change November 16 to the UN Interstellar Day of Tolerance, to reflect the religious make-up of our twenty-first century civilisation."
More people claimed to be Jedi in the census in England and Wales than those who follow Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism.
There are also said to be 70,000 Jedi knights in Australia, 53,000 in New Zealand, and 20,000 in Canada. Source: ananova.
Well I think its a grand idea, and if I meet any little green men, who resemble amazonian tree frogs, today, I will be exceedingly tolerant towards them; on the other hand, if I meet up with two twenty-four carat plonkers, dressed in robes and calling themselves Umada and Yunyun, then they needn't expect any tolerance from me, and they won't see what's about to give them a kick up the backside. Of course if they are real Jedis, then they will be able to use the force to avoid it.

posted by Luke @ 2:21 AM