The Grinch's efforts are getting a boost from mall security--at least in Great Britain.

Numerous UK shopping centers, er, I mean centres, have banned Santa Claus from their premises during the holiday season for not being inclusive enough of non-Christians. While the Brits are at it, they might want to inspect the origins of those three suspicious crosses on their national standard.

A spokeswoman for a mall in Birmingham that banned Santa remarked: "We wish to be sensitive to people of other religions over the festive period. There are a lot of people in the region who are not Christians and do not celebrate Christmas." Yes, and why would these people be flooding malls in the weeks immediately preceeding December 25?

Fear of insensitivty has little to do with axing Santa. They just want to make the holiday more expansive and thus get more people into the malls. Capitalism killed Santa.

I'm sure "God save the queen" offends atheists. Better get rid of her majesty.

Another case of political correctness gone wrong... is this called political incorrectness?

Seriously, I hate to see things like this happen. People are going to go so far out of thir way to not offend non nationals, minority religeons etc, that they will lose their own identity.