“Some Muslims make a mistake by erecting a Christmas tree in their homes and dressing up their children in ‘Santa Claus’ outfits. They even take it further by visiting the toy store and buying gifts and asking the shop’s owner to send ‘Santa Claus’ to their homes to give the gifts to their children.”
Some Muslims make a mistake by driving their cars into crowds of infidels and dressing up their children in suicide vests. They take it even further by blowing themselves up amid groups of infidels. What has Sheikh Hussam al-Ilani said or done about that?
“South Lebanon sheikh urges Muslims not to buy children Christmas presents,” The Daily Star, December 25, 2014 (thanks to Lookmann):
BEIRUT: Muslims must understand that Christmas and New Year’s Eve are exclusively Christian holidays, a south Lebanon sheikh said Thursday, urging Muslim parents to resist temptations and pressure to buy their children Christmas gifts.
“Some Muslims make a mistake by erecting a Christmas tree in their homes and dressing up their children in ‘Santa Claus’ outfits,” Sheikh Hussam al-Ilani, the imam at Ghufran Mosque in Sidon, said in a Christmas day statement.
“They even take it further by visiting the toy store and buying gifts and asking the shop’s owner to send ‘Santa Claus’ to their homes to give the gifts to their children,” he added, making a point of writing “Santa Claus” inside quotes.
Those parents believe that celebrating Christmas is a way of achieving national unity, he added, but they are wrong.
“Christmas and New Year’s are for Christians and not Muslims,” Ilani insisted.
“This is not extremism. It’s what all Muslims and Christians must know and understand.”
duh_swami says
He’s probably upset because Santa doesn’t visit Lebanon. It’s not that Santa thinks Lebanese children are unworthy, it’s because of lack of chimney.
There is no way to get in from the roof, and he’s not going to go in from the ground because he might get mugged for his sack.
csims says
Why shouldn’t they have the freedom to do what they want for their families?
Wait ….. THEY ARE MUSLIMS THATS WHY…. They have been brainwashed since birth to believe all the LIES in the Koran that mohammed is telling them that came from allah!
Mohammed made all that stuff up because he wanted to do all that depraved stuff himself so he said ‘allah’ told me this is the law now!
wildjew says
I watched a little CNN this morning. For Christiane Amanpour it was “Happy Holidays.” CNN conforms nicely to the sharia.
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/muslim-scholars-agree-saying-merry-christmas-is-the-worst-sin-ever-video/
Muslim scholars agree: Saying Merry Christmas is the Worst Sin Ever (video)
Zoltar says
But, but, I thought Jesus was considered a prophet in Islam.
Jay Boo says
Santa Clause is no real threat to Islam.
Today of course is not the observance of Santa Clause’s birthday, but the day that Christians worldwide honor the birth of Jesus Christ. While Muslims make flock to Mecca they are not able to celebrate the innocence and birth of Muhammad in the same manner.
Rather than criticize Christians for claiming the divinity of Jesus Christ, Muslims should take a close look at the carnal nature of Islam’s ‘prophet Muhammad whose spiritual enlightenment was so lacking that he could not get past his sociopathic spitefulness and grasping at a 72 virgin whore house sexual fantasy all proclaimed in the name of Islam’s Allah.
Bezelel says
I t-totally agree, islam does not represent anything spiritual. That’s why it attracts so many perverts.
jihad me at hello says
Kindness and regular human decency natural springs forth when a Muslim doesn’t know or care about the teachings of Islam.
J_AK says
Everyone should know that Lebanon is a country that was created by the only free Christians in the east- the Maronites, with the help of their allies the Frenc. After several civil wars, and after the abandonment of the West, Lebanese Christians became a minority in their country as their numbers dropped from 70% turn of the century to about 37% today. Still the struggle of the Lebanese Christians and their endless plight for freedom remains a story the west must learn and benefit from. In short when the Lebanese Christians were fighting against Islam in all its forms, the west was accusing them of fascism.
Angemon says
New Year’s Eve, a Christian HOLIDAY? What an ignorant jackass…
danny says
‘Kindness and regular human decency
natural springs forth when a Muslim
doesn’t know or care about the
teachings of Islam.’
Well said!
Kepha says
Hmmm. So Muslims are observing Christmas? May they “get” the reason for the season!
Salah says
“Muslims must understand that Christmas and New Year’s Eve are exclusively Christian holidays…”
They do. But they keep celebrating it.
Greedy salesmen in the West also understand that Christmas is a Christian holiday. But, whether they believe in Christ or not doesn’t really matter, they can’t afford ignoring the event.
Peoples all over the world are using the Christian Calendar, most of them don’t even know Christ, yet they can’t afford NOT using it.
Why? because…
“As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” Romans 14:11
And…
“God also hath exalted him, and hath given him a name which is above all names: That in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those that are in heaven, on earth, and under the earth: And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11
Merry Christmas!
Paul Emmett says
I am convinced at this point that Islam creates in its adherents a psychoneurological condition found in other cult programming.
It is characterized by many of the traits of a narcissistic personality disorder, of polarized all or nothing/us vs them, thinking and a destruction of the capacity for both empathy and critical thought.
Other than that, its a beautiful thing. Like a virus is a beautiful thing.
And like a virus, its sole purpose is to replicate itself, it has no higher teaching.
look at the Quran, it is all about submitting to Islam and propagating Islam through all means, fair and foul.