‘Offensive’ festivals

SIR – Who are these people who believe that the trappings of Christmas could be offensive to non-Christians (report, September 11)?

Are they offended by the overt signs of people celebrating Eid al-Fitr, Hanukkah, Diwali, Wesak or other religious festivals? If they are, then they are as intolerant and thin-skinned as those whose feelings they claim to protect.

If they are not, then their temerity and arrogance in assuming that followers of other faiths are so easily offended is breathtaking.

In either case, these are not the sort of people who should be given the authority to dictate how Christmas is celebrated. John Sutherland Uxbridge, Middlesex