Christmas Under Islam: Hardly a Season to be Jolly
Earlier I discussed how mosques, some of which breed radicalization and serve as terrorist bases, flourish in America, while churches are increasingly targeted and destroyed in the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity.
This pattern — religious appeasement of Muslim minorities in the West, religious hostility for Christian minorities under Islam — continues and manifests itself in other ways.
Consider Christmas. The same appeasement that allows a “victory mosque” to be erected near Ground Zero, where jihadists killed nearly 3,000 Americans, compromises one of Christianity’s most important events.
For instance, a “Montreal suburb has decided to remove a nativity scene and menorah from town hall rather than acquiesce to demands from a Muslim group to erect Islamic religious symbols.” Contrast this with Iran, where many churches were “ordered to cancel Christmas and New Year’s celebrations as a show of their compliance and support” for “the two month-long mourning activities of the Shia’ Moslems,” a reference to the bloody flagellations and self mutilations Shias perform in memory of Imam Hussein.
Likewise, the University of London held a Christmas service featuring readings from the Quran — Islam’s holy book that unequivocally condemns the Incarnation, which is precisely what Christmas celebrates. Meanwhile, Islam’s clerics in the West proclaimed things like “saying Merry Christmas is worse than fornication or killing someone,” since doing so is to “approve of the biggest crime ever committed by humanity”: the belief that God became man on Christmas. As the cleric makes clear, these are not his words, but rather the words of Islam’s most authoritative clerics.
Nor are these just words. Around the Muslim world, Christmas time for Christians is a time of threats, harassment, and fear. One can point to any number of Muslim attacks on Christians to prove this — whether churches attacked, burned, or forced into closure; whether Muslim converts to Christianity beat, killed, or imprisoned; whether Christians abused on “blasphemy” charges; or whether just sheer violence and killings of “infidel” Christians. (See “Muslim Persecution of Christians” for a list of December’s abuses alone.)
More telling, however, are the attacks that specifically targeted or revolved around Christmas:
In Oman the supermarkets have Christmas decorations, fake trees, advent calendars, chocolates, etc. My friends got all sorts of text messages from stores with various Christmas sales.
Oman has churches.
In Dubai, one of the malls has a Christmas tree that is at least 150 feet tall.
Not helpful. Bigoted, in fact. It’s one thing to despise Islamic extremism, and quite another to despise Muslims simply because they’re Muslims.
Telling the truth makes one a bigot? Our Merciful God in the Bible commands us to speak out for victims and for those who cannot speak for themselves! Mr. Ibrahim is obeying God!
Mr. Ibrahim NEVER said one word about despising Muslims! His heart breaks, as the hearts of many people breaks, over the terrible suffering of non-Muslims. It is NORMAL to feel emotional pain over the suffering of innocents.
Not helpful?
Whats not helpful is to be ignorant of who Mohammad was, RebeccaH…
Not a nice guy, not by any measure.
And remember, the ONLY source of who this guy was is THEIRS, not ours.
In other words, THEY claim he was a tyrant, murderer, child rapist, serial torturer, fornicator, thief, pirate, and meglomaniacal genocidal terrorist…its THEIR book(s) the Koran and the Hadiths, that tells of him, not ours.
And its a disturbing, horrifying story.
So, when in doubt (or ignorance) about the motives and intentions of Islam, just take them at their word. Islam is evil, and Islam wishies us harm, because ISLAM SAYS SO IN EVERY RECORDED DEED ATTRIBUTABLE TO MOHAMMAD.
Their ations speak for themselves, all over the world.
Applying your “christian” charity to their motives is whats not helpful.
Its ignorance
AMEN!!
I don’t understand the argument that because Muslim countries persecute Christians we should ban mosques in America, which is certainly what you’re implying with the “victory mosque appeasement” thing.
The persecution of Christians in Muslim countries is massive. The persecution of ALL non-Muslims in Muslim countries is massive.
A 9/11 Victory Mosque is the same as a Statue of Hitler at Auschwitz.
Supremacist Muslims want a mosque honoring Islam at sacred Ground Zero where our cherished 3,000 were slaughtered without mercy by the followers of Islam. Muslims who obeyed the commands in the Koran to wage jihad and eager to claim their expected promised reward of 72 virgins in Islamic heaven. Muslim supremacists demand the right to rub salt in the wounds of our pain, grief and tears with a 9/11 victory mosque.
On Christmas Day I went to the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. I was overcome with grief and wept. Someone had left single pink roses on some of the names. I thought of our terrified, cherished 3,000 who suffered agony; a dreadful death.
We will never forget our brave heroes, our policemen and firemen who willingly gave up their lives seeking to save innocents. Rest in eternal peace, all of you, our dear brothers and sisters, we will never forget you. Never! You are always in our hearts! We will not desecrate your memory with a victory mosque at Ground Zero.
Jumpers 9/11 WTC EYEwitnesses (Graphic 18+) 9/11 denial remedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9QN3AkydYY
Americans will never forget that thousands of Palestinian Authority Muslims (not terrorists-regular Muslims) celebrated with great joy the terrible suffering and cruel mass slaughter of our 3,000 innocents; dancing in the streets, passing out sweets and firing into the air. Muslims that Americans are forced to support with their taxes. And reward with a Muslim terror state in Israel bent on Jewish genocide.
We will never forget that Muslims also celebrated in the streets in America and other countries. In Berlin, Germany, Turkish Muslims celebrated the 9/11 murder of innocents by sending up hundreds of bottle rockets into the air.
We will also never forget that thousands of Palestinian Authority Muslims celebrate in the streets whenever a Muslim terrorist blows up amongst our Israeli brothers and sisters.
Those Americans who have anything to say in the country (meaning leftist politicians and press) have forgotten, they have chosen to forget out of political correctness and a hatred for freedom.
Make no mistake about it some of the muslims were obeying their god too, to kill the nonmuslims.
Jesus was not borm on Dec. 25th. That is a pagan Holiday the Universal Church changed to Christ’s birthday.
Islam is of the world. Christianty is not.
The word made flesh was persecuted. Are Christians greater than the Master?
The date that we Christians observe the birth of our savior, is not ment to be the actual date but a date we choose to celebrate his life. It was Jesus himself that warned us against false prophets, the devils prophet mohammed who spoke the evil word that is the islamic bible is such a prophet. islam is evil incarnate and will be defeated.
The quote is “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will.” It says nothing about goodwill toward violent men, but rather peace to those of goodwill.
The King James bible says: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
Nothing about men of good will.