Christmas Under Islam: Hardly a Season to be Jolly
December 25, 2011, was “Nigeria’s blackest Christmas ever”: in a number of coordinated jihadi attacks, several churches were bombed, killing over 40 people, “the majority dying on the steps of a Catholic church after celebrating Christmas Mass as blood pooled in dust from a massive explosion.” As expected, the New York Times all but apologized for the terrorists.
Christmas Eve in Uganda saw Muslims throw acid on a church leader, leaving him with severe burns, blinding one eye and threatening sight in the other. The pastor was on his way to a church party when a man pretending to be a Christian approached him from behind, yelling, “Pastor, pastor.” When he turned, the Muslim threw acid in his face while others poured it on his back, all running away while screaming Islam’s victory cry, “Allahu Akbar!”
In Muslim-majority Tajikistan, “a young man dressed as Father Frost — the Russian equivalent of Father Christmas — was stabbed to death” while visiting relatives and bringing gifts. Considering that the crowd beating and stabbing him were shouting “you infidel!” police cited “religious hatred” as motivation.
These are among the more violent and illegal attacks on Christians around Christmas time, undertaken by Muslim mobs and terrorists. In their own way, however, Muslim governments — many deemed “friends” of America — also make Christmas a very “un-merry” time for celebrants.
For example, if “vandals” in Indonesia “decapitated the statue of the Virgin Mary in a small grotto” days before Christmas, Indonesian officials have been shutting down churches; one “embattled church” fighting for survival was forced to move its Christmas prayers to a member’s house.
This pattern of treating Christian minorities as dhimmis — Sharia’s legal term for non-Muslims under Islam forced to live as despised, second-class citizens — is business as usual in the Muslim world. Some more Christmas-related examples follow:
- Malaysia: Parish priests and church youth leaders had to get “caroling permits” — requiring them to submit their full names and ID numbers at police stations, an eerie practice for non-Muslim minorities under Islam — simply to “visit their fellow church members and belt out ‘Joy to the World,’ [or] ‘Silent Night, Holy Night.’”
- Iran: While celebrating Christmas, a church was raided by State Security. All those present, including Sunday school children, were arrested and interrogated. Hundreds of Christian books were seized. The detained Christians suffered “considerable verbal abuses.”
- Pakistan: “Intelligence reports warned of threats of terrorist attacks on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.” Christians also lamented that “extreme power outages have become routine during Christmas and Easter seasons.”
In closing, if people in the West think Christmas is a time of “peace on earth, good will toward man” — to the point of compromising this Christian holiday to appease their “fellow [Muslim] man” — they should know that, increasingly, it is neither a time of “peace” nor “goodwill” for Christians under Islam.
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.