By Pamela Geller
With
their typical mutual respect, devout Muslims have been celebrating Christmas
the world over. Jihad bombers murdered 34 people as Christians
were coming out of church on Christmas morning in Baghdad, and Muslims
threatened and protested against Christmas celebrations all over the world. Two days after Christmas,
Lebanon’s former ambassador to the U.S. and at least four other people were
murdered in a car bombing in Beirut. That same day, jihadists
killed 10 people with a bomb in a restaurant in Mogadishu and three soldiers with a
homicide car bombing in Kabul.
Of
course, we all know that it’s Islamophobia that’s the real problem – although I
suspect that the victims might not agree. And meanwhile, on Christmas, Muslims
showed the respect and tolerance they demand from everyone else at a time when
Christians are being mercilessly persecuted and slaughtered under Muslim rule
across the world.
In Denmark, Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” held
a demonstration on Christmas Eve. They were not the only ones: It is not
unusual for Muslims to denounce Christmas. In November 2011, the Lebanese
Muslim cleric Abu Musaab Wajdi Akkari said:
You
cannot say: “Merry Christmas.” Not even if an alien came and said it to you –
you cannot even say it to him, and say: “He’s just an alien. I’m never going to
see him again. He’s not going to tell anyone.” No “Merry Christmas” – not from
a Muslim and not from a non-Muslim. It’s not part of our religion – period! It
is the concept that God was born on the 25th of December. That’s as
polytheistic and heretic as you can get. When you say: “Merry Christmas,” you
are saying: “Congratulations on your false religion,’ ‘Congratulations on your
false understanding of life.” You are congratulating them on the most evil of
polytheism and heresy.
In
Turkey, according to ANI, “a Turkish Muslim youth group has condemned Santa Claus for bringing booze, drugs and immorality to the society. The Anatolia Youth
Association held a demonstration in Istanbul urging residents to turn against
Santa for contributing to moral decay, degeneration of their culture and leading
to identity crises in their society, CNN reports. The group used an inflatable
plastic Santa as a prop, littering the ground below it with beer cans, a
syringe and a cross to illustrate the dangers of inviting Santa into Turkish
homes, the report added.” Posters appeared in FYROM and Turkey of Muslims
hitting Santa Claus.
Even
Muslims in America denounced Christmas. The Middle East Media Research
Institute, or MEMRI, reported that “the Mufti of Washington, D.C.,
Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hanooti, prohibited Muslim children from having their photos
taken with Santa Claus, as this is a ‘sin’ and ‘an abomination’ that
contravenes the tenets of Islam. The site emphasized that the Mufti’s position
does not represent the view of most Muslims living in the U.S., and that the
imam of a mosque in Maryland has even urged Muslims to celebrate Christmas
along with the Christians as a means of promoting their integration in American
society.”
This
kind of thing happens every year. MEMRI reported last year that “on New Year’s Eve,
members of the youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan attacked revelers in the
city of Lahore and smashed cars to protest against New Year’s celebrations,
while columnists and Islamic clerics in Pakistan and India declared the
occasion as un-Islamic, urging youth to refrain from emulating the West on
occasions like New Year’s and Christmas.”
Meanwhile,
in Israel, Islamic jihadists did their best to start a war. After a weekend of Islamic attacks against Israel, I
warned that “the savages are itching for a war – it’s imminent.” And I was
right.
On
Christmas Eve, Hamas shot and killed an Israel civilian who
was fixing the border fence along the Gaza Strip after the storm
that struck Israel the week before: “The man, 22-year-old Saleh Abu Latif from
the predominantly Bedouin city of Rahat, was working between Nahal Oz and Kfar
Aza as a civilian employed by the Israeli Defense Ministry on repairs to a
section of the Israel-Gaza border fence damaged in last week’s storm. The fence
had collapsed in three locations due to the storm.”
This
was typical of Muslim warfare: They struck on Christmas Eve. Religious holidays
are always a favored day for war and bloodshed for devout Muslims waging jihad.
Of
course, the media didn’t report any of this, and won’t until the Israelis react
(which is long overdue).
And
it is demanded that we respect this.
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