Social media in uproar after employees of two popular bakeries in Karachi refused to write ‘Merry Christmas’ on cakes
Social media has been in uproar after employees of two popular bakeries in Karachi refused to write ‘Merry Christmas’ on cakes ordered by customers!
Thursday saw the Twitter timeline flooded with messages criticizing the conduct of bakery employees who refused to write ‘Merry Christmas’ on cakes.
Please explain.
— Shamila Ghyas (@ShamilaGhyas) December 22, 2021
Are Christians lesser Pakistanis that they cannot be served or are popular bakeries just for Muslims? It's just a cake!
It's clear discrimination & should be called out.
Delizia has made an excuse that they ran out of icing.
Nothing from Aunty Munaver yet. pic.twitter.com/cxpyOmWdKF
However, as being reported, an official from one of the bakeries responded to the ongoing criticism, by describing it as an “act of an individual”.
“At the moment, we are taking action against him. It was done in an individual capacity and is not company policy. It may have been done due to lack of education and awareness that ‘Merry Christmas’ means wishing someone a happy Christmas, nothing else,” the Delizia bakery in question said in a statement.
The incident has left many people expressing their anger and sharing disappointment via messages on Twitter.
So apparently Delizia Bakers in DHA refused to write 'Merry Christmas' on a cake bought by a Christian customer saying its against our policy to write Merry Christmas.
— Ahsan (@ahsanzawar) December 22, 2021
Haramkhors deserved a full out and out boycott from all corners. Never buying from there.
https://twitter.com/_hiraasim/status/1473928063863906310
Wayyyyy too may similar posts and experiences from #Delizia to be a smear campaign.
— Unberryin Heather (@ambreenhaider01) December 22, 2021
If every staff member is saying they are not allowed to write "Merry Christmas" on cakes, since 2018, the the bakery deserves a boycott.
On the other hand, a person claiming to be an eyewitness of the incident shared in a post on Facebook that staff at a bakery in Clifton’s Bokhari Commercial area had similarly refused to write Merry Christmas on a customer’s cake, stating that they were following “management instructions” in this regard.