Now that President Trump has shown that he will not submit to intimidation over Jerusalem, Islamic supremacists are trying a new tactic to bring him to heel: intimidation.
“Christmas Is Canceled: Nazareth’s Muslim Mayor Bans Traditional Christmas Celebrations in Christ’s Childhood Home,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, December 16, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Muslim mayor of Nazareth has cancelled traditional outdoor songs and plays celebrating Christmas in the city where Jesus spent his childhood.
Mayor Ali Salam, who once made the curious boast that U.S. President Donald Trump “learned everything from me” about how to win elections, indicated that he was punishing local and visiting Christians as revenge for the President’s decision to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
“Our message is we love Jerusalem, we’ll never abandon you under any circumstances,” Salam declared.
“Our identity and faith aren’t up for debate … The decision [by Donald Trump about Jerusalem] has taken away the joy of the holiday, and we will thus cancel the festivities this year.”
While Nazareth is located within Israel proper rather than Palestinian Authority territory in Gaza and the West Bank, a majority of its inhabitants are Arabs with Israeli citizenship.
At a little over 30 per cent of the population, Christians are a significant minority — but are dominated by the Muslim majority which voted Salam into power.
Nevertheless, the local administration has already walked back his aggressive position somewhat, conceding “there are commercial interests of the city and we are used to hundreds of thousands [of Christians] coming for this season.”
Some elements of the traditional celebrations will therefore go ahead, such as the Christmas market and a parade on December 23rd — but the singing performances and outdoor plays which usually mark the season will be prohibited.
According to the Bible, the city of Nazareth is where the archangel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary she would bear the Saviour, making it one Christianity’s holiest sites….
Charles says
DERANGED muslim disspot choses to; “Cancel” Christmas?
Why our vast nuclear arsenal wasn’t used to clean up this vile and putrid mess, long, long ago…..
I’ll never know!
gravenimage says
Nazareth is a part of Israel.
This would be like threatening to nuke a high-crime neighborhood in the US–perhaps not the most useful approach.
What I’d like to see is more high-ranking Israeli authorities quash these mean-spirited and probably illegal actions.
J D S says
At one time there WAS something good that came out of Nazareth….Jesus….but Muslim mayor…Humbug!!!!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, but for now Nathaniel was right.
murad says
We in the west are very good teachers:
1. We taught that holocaust did not happen. Iran and the rest of muslims parroted what we started.
2. We said our men are women. Muslims said we will send you real men to fertilize your women and pay your pensions.
3, We in the west cancelled all religious ceremonies and symbols. And Christmas is irrelevant. The muslim mayor is imitating us.
4. We in the west are treading on Christianity and Judaism and promoting islam.. They are doing the same.
No one respects one if one does not stand one’s ground and fight for one’s values. What values? secularism ? hot air.
jihad3tracker says
HELLO MURAD — Yes, you bring up valid and relevant truths. The U.S. and Europe have a big slice of self-hating and cowardly “citizens”.
Stephen Hiller says
The mayor is following the lead of the NFL – commercial interests can not be violated, but everything else, patriotic or sacred, is fair game.
Matina says
5. We in the west proclaimed stupidly that muslims are the victims not the universal aggressors of all times. They went with that to make full use of our idiot Traitors.
roger woodhouse says
Theres dome truth in what you day but unfortunately we cannot defeat Islam just by ‘promoting’ our Christmas celebrations.We in Britain only pay lip service to our Christian faith.We are a Christian country in ‘name only’A bit like our leaving the EU,in name only.No we will defeat that evil religion because of our secularism.Our people will never give up their enttenched lifestyle for a biggoted mysonigistic ,homosexual hating child and wife abusing creed which ‘honours a murdering lieing peadophile.Not to mention the soulessness of such a religion that forbids music and insists on the covering of females from children to adults.No that is not going to happen without massive deaths.And they will be muslims
roger woodhouse says
Thst should read”some*and *say.
gravenimage says
I’m not sure where to start with this. murad wrote:
We in the west are very good teachers:
1. We taught that holocaust did not happen. Iran and the rest of muslims parroted what we started.
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Holocaust denial is *hardly* the norm in the West. I’n not sure where you got this idea.
More:
2. We said our men are women. Muslims said we will send you real men to fertilize your women and pay your pensions.
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Not sure what to do with this. Your idea that no women work is false. Civilized people do not consider rapists to be “masculine”.
And few Muslims work–they are contributing nothing to Western pensions. In fact, Muslim immigration is a huge drain on the West.
More:
3, We in the west cancelled all religious ceremonies and symbols. And Christmas is irrelevant. The muslim mayor is imitating us.
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There has been some dhimmitude in the West, no doubt,d hand-wringing over Muslims being “offended” by Christian celebrations. But your idea that all Christian celebrations in the West have been canceled is incorrect.
And your idea that Muslims do not regularly oppress Christians and prohibit Christian celebrations is just mistaken. This dates back to the earliest days of dhimmitude. Muslims are not copying Westerners.
Greyhound Fancier says
Just like a petulant two year old.
LeftisruiningCanada says
The evil childishness of islam is very well noted, yes.
jihad3tracker says
HE IS THE KIND OF ALLAH WORSHIPPER WHICH MUHAMMAD WOULD BE PLEASED WITH —–
Vindictive, petty, enraged, miserable, ugly, pathological, disturbed, bloodthirsty.
HAVE I LEFT OUT ANY PERSONALITY TRAITS YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD ?????
Bezelel says
satanic, miscreant, and stupid if he thinks allah is a god.
Perera says
Allah is a Moon god Muhammed picked this god among many other deity and elevated the status of being his god. Muslims are SOOOO weak in their reasoning capacity and simply believe everything this pedo says.
gravenimage says
Spot on, jihad3tracker.
Andy says
You can never cancel truth, No matter how much you try .Muslim mayor of Nazareth
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqHOK3MUxoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1C49CAq4w
Ron Wolf says
In their anger they show their true colors. I wonder what the pro Palestinian dhimmis (any non Muslim) Christian anti Semites so prevalent in England think of this move. This revenge against Trump is to alienate Christians all over the world is brilliantly stupid and predictable.. ISIS is alive in Nasareth. Mohammed yes, Jesus no..
gravenimage says
Notice that this Muslim mayor is pretending that this is a decision by everyone not to celebrate in protest of Trump’s speech, when instead it is a punitive action imposed on the Christian population.
Michael Casmer says
You’re a mean one Mr. Grinch
gravenimage says
Grimly true.
utis says
Doesn’t this idiot know why the Crusades started? Christians couldn’t safely visit (let alone live in) the muslim-controlled places where Christianity started. “Palestinians” whine and slaughter over their old territories, yet there isn’t one they didn’t steal from Christians or polytheists.
I wonder what kind of hell would break out if New York banned the Shiite Asura self-mutilation festival. Not that that could happen under Dhimmi De Blasio.
gravenimage says
Actually, mutilating your children *is* illegal–it just probably is not being enforced.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Here is typical Mohammadan incitement to violence: make it appear as though Mohammadism is under siege (when, in fact, Mohammadism is the attacker):
https://www.rt.com/news/413416-erdogan-jerusalem-mecca-israel/
gravenimage says
+1
LeftisruiningCanada says
Islamic expansion questioned or noticed = Mohammadism is under siege
CRUSADER says
What a JERK of a mayor!
Shows how political Muslims make religion to be.
Well, there’s a special place in hell for this mayor….
gravenimage says
Enraged at Trump, Nazareth’s Muslim mayor bans traditional Christmas celebrations
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This is the same mindset of someone who’s boss does something he dislikes, so he goes home and kicks his dog.
God, I hate Islam–it always victimizes the powerless.
Lydia says
Just do what I do: do it ANYWAY.
Have them anyway.
You don’t need a muslim to help you set up the decorations!
gravenimage says
Lydia, Muslims will probably target any Christians who “step out of line”. This is what Muslims do to any vulnerable minorities.
dumbledoresarmy says
What needs to happen is for non-dhimmi Christians like Fr Gabriel Naddaf to tell the Israeli authorities that they intend to *disobey* their Muslim ‘mayor’, and then go ahead and start their celebrations … and then the *instant* the mohammedans threaten them or, worse, attack or attempt to attack, the Christians must demand that Israeli law enforcement come down like a ton of bricks on the Muslim threateners/ extortionists/ attackers.
Within Israel, in certain areas, mohammedans get away with a lot: There are, alas, some Israelis who have been ‘conditioned’ into a dhimmi-like appeasing attitude toward the in-house Muslims; *both* Christians *and* Jews who are being repeatedly victimised by Mohammedan local aggression need to get much more vocal and demand consistent and solid protection from that aggression… and they – ordinary Jewish and Christian citizens of Israel – also need to consider banding together and *protecting* themselves from that aggression. (There is a group called “The New Guardians of Israel”; I heard about them some time ago, via Caroline Glick; I hope they’re still going; Fr Gabriel ought to encourage the non-dhimmi Christians to do similar, or form a ‘Christian’ branch of same, to work with their Jewish neighbours to resist Muslim local aggression and bullying and raiding of livestock and crops).
NYgal says
If Israeli Christians supported Israel, instead of Muslim Arabs, Israeli government would step in and deal with this treasonous mayor of what is an Israeli City. Israeli Christians, however, do identify as Arab Palestinians, attack Israel, don’t serve in the Israeli Army and blacken Israel’s name abroad, so the Israeli government stays away and let’s them sort things out on their own. Nazareth used to be a majority Christian town, but because of Muslim birth rate it is no longer so. Israeli Christians better make up their mind if their continuous anti-Israel stand is in their best interest.
gravenimage says
Not all of them, NYgal.
gravenimage says
Hear, hear, DDA!
Manny says
Yeah go ahead and vote for Muslims and they will govern through their petulant whims, just like Allah.
LeftisruiningCanada says
The muslims know they have nothing else to use as leverage against the West now.
So they get to practice their favorite hobby – making dhimmis. They always want to do this, but now they feel justified and supported by their lefty supporters, also in the West.
Such a twisted belief system.
Bezelel says
https://www.bitchute.com/video/j9e_vcSut0A/
A little commentary from Pat Condell, really on a roll.
Linda says
Pat Condell has a way with words. Go Pat!
Bezelel says
I hope his attitude spreads far and wide.
CRUSADER says
Muslims giveth and taketh away according to their whim, just like their prophet and their god.
A culture of power-tripping megalomaniacs that seek excuses to tell others how to live and to
impose their rules on the world.
The recent movie about the Turks turning on the Christian Armenians and Assyrians 100 years ago
called “The Promise” shows what can happen if we let our guards down…
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. It’s a horrible system. Islam unlooses, and sacralises, and feeds upon, all of humanity’s very basest desires: the lust to kill, the lust to sexually abuse, the lust to *destroy*, to tell iies and delight in it, to take other people’s stuff and feel good about it. It burns away both empathy and conscience. John Quincy Adams was right, in spades, when he said that “the essence of his [Mohammeds] teaching was violence and lust; to exalt the brutal over the spiritual side of man’s nature”.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Dumbledore’s Army.
Matt says
I think we should exercise our Right to Return to Nazareth, then?
More Ham Ed says
Don’t watch the whole thing if you don’t want to, but I recommend starting at the 13 min. mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA5MaHhVGpM&start=780
dennis says
so the muslim savant has canceled the public display of Christians! celebrate in your churches, your homes and your heart. a new years resolution: work closer with the Jews. They would never do that! declare yourselves as Aramean, not Arabs. work with Fr. N.!
dumbledoresarmy says
“…a new years resolution: work closer with the Jews. They would never do that! declare yourselves as Aramean, not Arabs. work with Fr. N.!”.
Yes. That would be *my* advice to my fellow Christians who live within Israel.
I am a Christian: Christians are far, far safer within Israel (and what is more, the plumbing works, the water is potable, the medical care is first-world, so is the available education, and the lights stay on) than they are within *any* mohammedan-majority country *anywhere*. The Christians of any stripe who are resident within Israel should count their blessings, be thankful to be living within the thin ring of steel provided by the heroic IDF, encourage their sons and daughters to *join* said IDF and contribute to the continued survival of the safe haven, and STOP carrying water/ making excuses for the damn mohammedans whose historic chant runs ‘first the Saturday people [to be killed/ subjugated], then the Sunday people”.
Chris Malan says
I suppose at least some of you know that Christmas has no Christian roots. Its roots are firmly in paganism – the rebirth of the sun and Mithras. It was imported into Christianity to reach the pagans who liked the Christmas (not so called then) festivities. The ‘twelve days of Christmas’ are also from paganism. There is much material freely available on this topic. The same goes for Easter, which is a celebration to the fertility goddess – hence the eggs and rabbits.
Of course, the raghead mayor of Nazareth doesn’t know this.
dumbledoresarmy says
Really?
The fact is that there isn’t very much hard evidence – whether in archaeology or in dateable ancient documents – for any of those assertions about the so-called pagan roots of either Christmas or Easter (the name of which is derived from the Hebrew name for Passover, in every European language *except* English).
Robert_k says
A Muslim Grinch who stole Christmas? Since when do Muslims celebrate Christmas? Why not let Christians cancel Ramadan? How would the Muslims react to that?
Jack Dawkins says
Jared Kushner is happy
Gamaliel says
The only happy people are the leaders of the Arabs for making them riot.
gravenimage says
What an ass the appalling “Jack Dawkins” is.
Gamaliel says
What Trump should do in face of the Arab violence is declare that the United States now recognizes Judea and Samaria as part of Israel and that Jordan is Palestine.
dumbledoresarmy says
YES. Up the ante. May as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb. The thing is: Judea and Samaria constitute the military high ground. Israel HAS to hold that territory if they are to survive long-term. It gives them a bit – a very small bit – of what military strategists call ‘strategic depth’. And… those limestone hills are full of caves. Possessing and holding The Mountains of Israel – as the prophet Ezekiel called them, centuries before ever Islam was cooked up as a psychopath’s wet dream of power unlimited – the Israelis would have what they needed to ride out even a nuke attack.
All jihadwatchers please write, phone or tweet the POTUS, ASAP, insisting on the critical importance of *BEING* ‘the strong horse’: no flattery, no backtracking, no backing down. When dealing with the mohammedan mob only main force hard and precisely-applied has any hope of forcing them to respect you. They will still hate your guts, but they will back off somewhat.
And move the embassy, pronto. I would advise a *surprise* move; only Mossad and the IDF to know the exact timetable. I’m sure the Israeli security honchos could easily identify a suitably-secure (or securable) and defensible building, of suitable dimensions and fittings, within Jerusalem. Ideally, in the Old City somewhere, so as to make the pointed point as pointedly as possible. If necessary, use the US Marines to guard the building. When the mohammedans riot/ try to attack: drop the hammer on them.
concerned citizen says
As always, Islam is showing its totalitarian ideological aspect; it is far from being a religion! tt is an evil cult, a collection of wrong ideas!
Let us be proud, of our own system (Judaeo/Christian values, and Graeco/Roman cultural heritage). We must fight Islam with our ideas!
Of course that is not to say we shouldn’t fight, whenever and wherever necessary, with other means (weapons, appropriate laws, and so on).
Please don´t help to elect any Muslim; even so-called moderate ones!
Lcmb says
Gabriel isn’t an Archangel and never claimed to be.
warren raymond says
“Commercial interests” are stronger than the Pali desire to piss off Trump:
”The cancellation only applies to artistic performances on stages”, the statement read. It also stated that outdoor stalls would be opened, the lighting of the Christmas tree will take place Sunday as scheduled, programs in the old city will proceed, and a parade will be held on December 23.
“Christmas season in Nazareth is the season of good and blessing and we are completely vigilant that commercial interests won’t be damaged,” the statement concluded.
Salam told Reuters news service on Saturday, “I don’t know why people thought there would be cuts to the celebrations. Everything except for three singers who will not be coming will be held as normal. We have already welcomed 60,000 people to the city today.”
Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/99418/nazareths-muslim-mayor-backtracks-bit-decision-cancel-christmas/#BJtehdt5WAQCAfwt.99
Coach says
Great. Now the next thing is to stop the indoctrination of our children by banning the use of the koran, hadith and sura in mosques and schools.