Merry Christmas to all Jihad Watchers who are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ tonight and tomorrow.
The question before us this Christmas, as it is every Christmas these days, is whether or not Christians should be allowed to be Christian and celebrate Christmas freely, without being brutalized or discriminated against, if they live in Iran, or Iraq, or Egypt, or Pakistan, or Nigeria, or Indonesia, or other Muslim countries, and whether free people of all creeds and perspectives should defend their right to do so.
In many countries today, Christians are being kidnapped, imprisoned, wrongly arrested, beaten, and murdered — not because of anything they have done, but because they have dared to have beliefs that are considered blasphemous in authoritative Islam. We see this at Jihad Watch on a regular basis. We see jihadists attacking Christians with unremitting fury. We also see the world continuing to yawn and remain indifferent as all this goes on, and weak and cowardly Christian leaders saying that we must not talk about it for fear of “provoking” Muslims and harming a chimerical and fruitless (at best) Muslim/Christian “dialogue.” Those who dare anyway to speak out about the persecution of Christians that the persecutors justify by invoking the Qur’an and Sunnah are vilified, demonized, and silenced as “bigots” and “Islamophobes.” Even some Christians do this to their fellow Christians who speak unwelcome truths on these matters.
So here is something to remember this Christmas: if you are a free human being, whether or not you are Christian, those Christians who are being persecuted in Iran, and Iraq, and Indonesia, and Nigeria, and Egypt, and Pakistan, and elsewhere in the Islamic world, are standing in your place. The jihadis would just as soon attack you as well, and will eventually if they get the chance. Remember that the Islamic jihad program has you on its list. You may not be a Christian. You may not be a Jew. You may not be a Hindu. You may not be a Buddhist. You may not wish to pay attention to the jihad at all. But the jihad is universal, and relentless. And you are on its list.
So this Christmas, may all of us whose conversion, subjugation, or death is envisioned by the adherents of Sharia stand together. Let us stand together as Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, secularists, what have you, and stand up against those who would kill us or subject us to institutionalized discrimination and harassment (at best) because they find our beliefs offensive.
For be assured: if we do not stand together, they will prevail. And if they prevail, then all the richest manifestations of the unfettered human spirit, from the Hagia Sophia to the temple of mausoleums of Timbuktu, from the works of Socrates and Aristotle to those of Confucius and Moses Maimonides and Dante Alighieri and Winston Churchill and Oriana Fallaci, will be trampled into the mud, destroyed, exploded, ruined, effaced. We will all be the poorer. Our children will be the poorer.
It is time to fight for our lives.
Merry Christmas to all Christian Jihad Watchers who celebrate the Feast tonight and tomorrow.
livingengine says
We love life!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT0REzamVcg
overman says
Merry christmas to all on JihadWatch and may the New Year bring a greater Freedom.
ln the words of the Divine Mother:
‘Peace and goodwill to all.
Unless a break is made with the habits and the beliefs of the past,
there is little hope of advancing rapidly towards the future.’
christianblood says
MERRY CHRISTMAS INDEED!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5uud2fjtoo
Tony Naim says
Amen,
Shlomo Damshiho <——— Peace of Christ (in Aramaic)
christianblood says
Tony Naim
+1
gravenimage says
Thanks for posting that, christianblood.
christianblood says
gravenimage
You are very welcome, GI!
mgoldberg says
A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Years, to all the celebrants!
GreekEmpress says
A blessed Christmas to all of you at Jihad Watch and to those who contribute all the interesting articles and videos in the comment section.
jihad3tracker says
All Jihad Watch readers on this 12-24 Christmas Eve please devote a minute of prayer for the gift of Robert Spencer & his colleague Pamela Geller. Every day they risk their LIVES telling truth about subjugation and murder central to Islam’s bloodthirsty Allah. As I have asked often here in JW, contact our senators & representatives by email about what the future if Muslim pathology continues. Give hotlines leading to JW posts so they can read what you are referring to. As a 70 year old ancient senior human, I know that time slips by losing irreceplaceable opportunity. 2019 arrives in a week. Jihad never ceases.
gravenimage says
+1
dumbledoresarmy says
I pray often for Mr Spencer – and for his *family* and his friends and fellow-parishioners. And I pray for that honorable atheist, Mr Hugh Fitzgerald. I pray for physical and spiritual protection of them and all those who, like them, are right out on the front line, whether as writers and warners or (like Geert Wilders and Tommy Robinson) as visible political targets.
somehistory says
I believe that the choices of life…those that are the most important, belong to each person individually. (We don’t each get to choose other things…where stop signs belong, how much tax to pay, etc…less important than major life decisions.)
I believe that it is only our Creator’s prerogative to decide if a person has made the choice that will mean eternal life or eternal death. This belongs to Him and He chose to share it with His Son, only.
Therefore, each one should respect the rights of another to make those choices in life…and whether to celebrate Christmas is one of those.
Jesus said, several times, that His disciples would be “hated” and “killed for His name.” This is happening all over the earth and shows the Truth of what He said.
Jesus will deal with those who mistreat His “brothers.” He will also address the actions of those who saw the mistreatment, the murders and persecution. There are two groups of observers…those who act to help and those who close their eyes to the persecution (Matthew 25). Jesus explains the Judgment in terms easy to understand. It is each one’s choice in which group to be.
Personally, I no longer celebrate Christmas. But I see it as each one’s right whether to celebrate or not.
I pray that those who love our Creator and His Son will soon find relief from the hatred and persecution. And that until this relief comes , they may remain faithful.
Thank you, Mr. Spencer, for taking the risks, telling the truth, and not giving up. I hope your day is one of peace.
Tom Cox says
Thank you for your words and thoughts. They remind me that we are each responsible for our choices and that seems to be easily forgotten.
somehistory says
thank you.
Mary says
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Lydia Church says
Merry Christmas to all at Jihad Watch and all the readers on here!
I am celebrating that God sent His only begotten Son to be incarnated and
come to be the Savior of the world to all who will receive Him, by dying for
our sins and rising again in victory!!! That is the reason for His coming.
Love reached down from heaven to save us.
He laid His indescribable glory aside and took on humble means to save us.
That is the meaning of Christmas!
All praise be to God, the Father of His perfect, holy, pure, and only Son; Jesus!
My favorite Christmas song:
O Holy Night
sung in soprano
enjoy via the internet if you can!
Merry Christmas!!!
: D
mortimer says
Amen, Lydia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJmP8T07JU
Dov Berrol says
Merry Christmas, Robert. You are a blessing for all lovers of freedom around the world….most especially we members of the Jewish/Hebrew Nation.
Wishing you good health, happiness and success in 2019. And thank you for all your hard work in 2018! Alfei todot…a thousand thank yous!
Renate says
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone.
mortimer says
My prayer for Christmas 2018 is that the eyes of the BLIND Western elites may opened to the REALITY OF THE JIHAD that threatens ALL of humanity. God save Christians, Jews, Hindus and agnostics from the CANONICAL HATRED directed against them all by ISLAM … the 7th century cult of hate.
Battle says
Way to go, Mr. Spencer.
gravenimage says
Merry Christmas in a time of persecution of Christians
……………………
Merry Christmas to all Jihad Watchers who celebrate!
And my thoughts and prayers are with those who are persecuted and cannot openly celebrate, or who take their lives in their hands if they try. May the joy of Christmas still be with you.
christianblood says
Merry Christmas to Syrian Christians who along with other minorities in Syria prevailed
against a huge onslaught of genocidal islamic jihadists backed by the US, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, UK, Israel, France and Nato! May Christ be on your side!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxct865vYY
gravenimage says
I would love to see Christians in Syria safe and free.
christianblood says
gravenimage
+1
dumbledoresarmy says
Merry Christmas to you, ‘Gravenimage’, and to all the posters and lurkers of good will, including many who have been here ever since Mr Spencer first started the website back in 2003.
gravenimage says
🙂
Lynne says
Very true words, Robert! Unfortunately, there are still too many to take these to heart.
Merry Christmas!
christianblood says
Words of Truth From Robert Spencer:
(…In many countries today, Christians are being kidnapped, imprisoned, wrongly arrested, beaten, and murdered — not because of anything they have done, but because they have dared to have beliefs that are considered blasphemous in authoritative Islam. We see this at Jihad Watch on a regular basis. We see jihadists attacking Christians with unremitting fury. We also see the world continuing to yawn and remain indifferent as all this goes on, and weak and cowardly Christian leaders saying that we must not talk about it for fear of “provoking” Muslims…)
Very true indeed, Robert Spencer!
Merry Christmas & Very Happy New Year to you Robert!
kuriakose says
Blessed Christmas dear readers and writers of Jihad Watch. God’s richest blessings on you all and God be with you in this fight against the evil of islam.
‘Glad tidings I bring you…….’
Anjuli Pandavar says
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, especially to Christians, whose holiest day and whose persons face such immense peril. Thank you all for helping me get through another year with my flame still burning.
Tricia Stuercke says
With GREAT JOY & REVERENCE, we recall The BLESSED BIRTH of Our Lord & Savior, who came to Man as The CHRIST Child, Conceived & Named thru the POWER of GOD ALMIGHTY, JESUS was born into POVERTY, & near-immediate DANGER, to His Specially-Selected & Graced Mother, young Mary of Nazareth. Both Mother & The Holy Child were entrusted to the Protection of His Chosen Earthly Father, Joseph. Tonight, I think deeply of The Holy Family, & Their Divine Example to ALL of True, Right, Godly Parenting & Living. We’d ALL do well to look ESPECIALLY to their COURAGE, as we enter further into the Foretold Times of Revelation. PRAISE Him today; THANK Him today! I pray you all have a beautiful, glorious, & but most of all HOLY CHRISTMAS! He is Born! Praise God, He is Born!
Tricia Stuercke says
I request a SPECIAL PRAYER from our Jihad Watch Family this Christmas Morning:
PLEASE have your family pray a desperately-needed prayer for 2 young, brave, beautiful Christian women, kidnapped & held in Nigeria by the continuing-evil scourge known as BOKO HARAM…KIDNAPPED back in FEBRUARY 2018, LEAH (15) was 1 of nearly 100 Schoolgirls, taken as a now-regular grotesquely-barbaric terroristic “tool” of Boko Haram’s, held in captivity for many months, in an attempt to gain a large ransom. All girls were surprisingly released @June, but LEAH, refusing to deny Christ, remained the Lone Schoolgirl held. ALICE (22?), 1 of several Red Cross Aid Workers taken at the same time, is now the ONLY RC worker ALIVE! All others were executed! Tired of waiting for cash, Boko Haram announced in the Fall they decided to ENSLAVE LEAH & ALICE, disappearing with these 2 young women, whose families are now PHYSICALLY SICK with FEAR & DREAD!
PLEASE PRAY for these young Christian women…PRAY for a CHRISTMAS MIRACLE by CHRIST HIMSELF! THANK YOU!
Have a BLESSED CHRISTMAS! ?
gravenimage says
Thank you for the reminder, Tricia. Prayers to all Christians in peril from Jihad.
Frederick King says
It’s funny, they used to show and report on Christmas in the holy lands. Not any more. Not one word on yahoo. Don’t these creeps understand that the jews and christians were around long before muhammad and his death cult ?
abad says
Nope, the liberal media is clueless on the truth about Islam and just how young/new a religion it is.
Aleksander says
Mr. Spencer is quite right about the subject he stands for. Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all the Christians and people of good will around the world.
duh swami says
Merry Christmas to all from a habitual shirker…
gravenimage says
🙂
Dawne says
Amen to that and many thanks to you Mr Spencer for the work and scholarship that you put into trying to open peoples’ eyes to these issues.
Dawne says
Many thanks to you Mr Spencer for the work and scholarship that you put into trying to open peoples’ eyes to these issues.
wm1 says
There are few who have the sensitivity concerning the plight of persecuted Christians this time of the year-or any other for that matter. Mr. Spencer is counted among the number-which leads me to believe he is a brother in Christ.
Thank you for championing the cause of Christ by keeping us informed regarding the ‘least of these’ (Christ’s brethren) particularly during this time of year when we celebrate the birth of the world’s Messiah and our Lord Jesus Christ.
fred says
“Merry” Christmas… really?? “Love your enemies…. while I, your GOD/JESUS torture my enemies in a hell fire for all eternity!” The horrifically ironic and tragic message of this faith that for 2000 years prides itself as the arbiter and pinnacle of human morality and compassion. And almost 2 billion humans on our planet every year blindly celebrate the birth of this ‘CULT-of-human-sacrifice’ without pondering at all its plagiarized origins, questionable existence of its Divine Savior, fraudulent and highly adulterated scriptures, virulent and murderous anti-Semitism, unscrupulous and unimaginably violent and barbaric actions of its churches and followers, persecution of untold millions of non-beleivers, and the insidiously poisonous effect it has on the psyche, emotional stability, and critical thinking of its adherents for generations upon generations.
gravenimage says
Does fred have any problem with Christians being murderously persecuted? No–it appears he is just condemning the victims. Very disturbing.
Carol the 1st says
Did someone let a gnat get into the schnapps?
Tony Naim says
Mr Spencer
Words alone are not enough to express my gratitude for the work you do: exposing Radical political Islam.
In the name of tens of thousands of Christians killed in Lebanon at the hands of
Yasser Arafat’s PLO and the Syrian Assad dictator. Innocent civilians slain like sheep in the towns of Deir elahmar, Zahle, Damour, Jiyeh, Aaley, Beirut, Knat, Tripoli,etc
All in the name of Jihad.
2 names in particular come to mind: Malcolm Kerr, the president of the American University of Beirut and my classmate at AUB-MC, Dr. George Faris, both killed by Hizbolla
Observer says
To those who interact on this website and who don’t celebrate the incarnation of God… LOVE, JOY AND BLESSINGS to all of you wherever you are.
To ROBERT SPENCER… What can I say ?
GOD’S RICHEST BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS ROBERT.
YOUR COURAGE IS…… EXEMPLARY – TOUCHED BY GRACE YOU ARE !
MAY YOU AND YOUR FAMILY BE KEPT SAFE FROM THOSE HELD CAPTIVE BY EVIL.
THANK. YOU. ROBERT !
I’m still saving for your latest book but I’ll get there!
To all who do celebrate Christ’s birth, BLESSINGS AND LOVE TO ALL OF YOU AND PEACE ON EARTH (…but not just yet I guess).
PRAYERS FOR ISRAEL SO HEMMED IN BY SURROUNDING JIHADIS (spelling ?).
MAY THE LORD OPEN THE EYES, HEARTS AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO SEEK TO SLAUGHTER THOSE NOT OF THEIR FAITH AND SAVE THEM FROM THEMSELVES.
PEACE EVERYONE !
I WILL PRAY FOR THE YOUNG NIGERIAN WOMEN STILL IN THE HANDS OF BOKO HARAM…
Michael Casmer says
Merry Christmas to all
Always On Watch says
Mr. Spencer,
Merry Christmas!
More than any other single person, you have educated me in the truth about Islam. Thank you for being the Godfather of the Counter Jihad.
Fight on!
Xero_G says
Thank-you Mr. Spencer for reminding us what’s at stake during this holiday season and thanks for mentioning the great Oriana Fallaci in your comments. My Christmas wish is for all who haven’t done so already, read her classic, “The Rage and the Pride” written just after the twin towers fell. It is still relevant today, more than ever.
patriotliz says
Merry Christmas to all who risk their lives to educate us all about the evil ideology of Islam. Uneducated Westerners can’t comprehend that something called a “religion” can be evil and a danger to all humanity.
Rob Porter says
Couldn’t agree more, Robert, we must fight for our lives, those of our children and old people, and our way of life, never submit to pathetic Moslem barbarians or be quiet in the face of Moslem savagery. The cowardly silence in churches about the suffering of Christians at the hand of ignorant savages of Islam, has chased me away from churches.
abad says
Merry Christmas to everyone at JW!
Mixtli says
Féliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo 2019 a todos, incluso a los mahometanos, que reflejan en lo que consta su culto basado en la violencia, el derramamiento de sangre, el amor hacia la muerte cuando la gente de buenos principios AMAMOS más a LA VIDA que la muerte!
Mark Berlinger says
Persecution is every day.
Carol the 1st says
“Pie Jesu” English Lyrics
Merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest, grant them rest
Merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest, grant them rest
Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest, grant them rest
everlasting
everlasting
Rest
Celtic Woman – Pie Jesu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6RSB39DMfM
gravenimage says
Thanks for that link.Carol!
Carol the 1st says
“Pie Jesu” English Lyrics
Merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest, grant them rest
Merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus, merciful Jesus
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest, grant them rest
Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God, Lamb of God
Father, who takes away the sins of the world
Grant them rest, grant them rest
everlasting
everlasting
Rest
Celtic Woman – Pie Jesu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6RSB39DMfM
My Shari'a Moor says
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2019!