Merry Christmas to all Jihad Watchers who are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ today.
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.
David Grisez says
One of the big problems with Islam is that it motivates Muslims with its teaching to conduct Jihad against all non Muslims and those who are not the correct group of Muslims. So it does not matter what religion a person is, if it is not Islam, Muslims are motivated to conduct Jihad against it. Now the teachings of Islam has a special type of hatred towards Jews and Christians, but over all there is a hatred towards everything non Muslim. So more than ever the truth about Islam needs to get out. The truth will do more to restrain Islamic Jihad than wars on a battlefield. The ideology can not stand being exposed, because the truth causes people that are in the Islamic Ideology to leave this evil system. And some Muslims leave this system, even with its death penalty for apostasy. If enough Muslims become Muslim apostates, it will weaken this ideology of Islam.
christianblood says
MERRY & BLESSED ORTHODOX CHRISTMAS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQGs6WEHdMQ
VRWC member77 says
Merry Orthodox Christmas, to the Christians in the East.
gravenimage says
Merry Christmas to you, as well!
CogitoErgoSum says
The version that I read of the story of Christ’s birth has the angels proclaim, “Peace towards men of goodwill.” This acknowledges that there are men who bear no goodwill towards Christ or His followers and the meaning of “peace’ to them is the same as the “peace” Herod brought as his gift to the newborn of Bethlehem. How many Christians live quietly in Bethlehem today and how many have fled to find a life of peace elsewhere?
FYI says
When I was a kid I used to think Hark was one of those Angels.
Hark the Herald Angel.
gravenimage says
🙂
Walter Sieruk says
About having a “Merry Christmas” and the reality of Muslim terrorism and murderous violence in the world today. First off, last month in this and other sites about about Islamic terrorism there been a report of Muslim gathering together a tearing down and destroying a Christmas Tree in the Middle Eastern nation of Jordan. In all fairness such behavior of Muslims gathering in a group and destroying a Christmas tree is a rather non- violent harmless activity for Muslims to engage in . For many Muslims have to destroy something, and destroy something with terrible force . Its far better the they destroying a large Christmas decoration than when they gather together and destroy people by murdering them.
As for example those Paris Muslim terror attacks on Bastille day ,July 14, which occurred over two years ago then Muslim terrorists murdered many people that day in Paris France . Also last last month in Strasbourg France in the Christmas market mass murder cause committed by a “long wolf jihad-minded Muslim. Then before all this there was the that jihad murder attack in Madrid and then Barcelona Spain . Likewise the underground train bombings in London and the later Islamic knife attack in London jihad attacks and the murderous Manchester bombing in England , the list can go on.
So in an large view if all those angry Muslims would in the further only limit their violence to destroying Christian trees and not destroying people ,we all all in future times have a marry Christmas and many happy new years to come.
ntesdorf says
Christ was born during the night of Saturday 20th March 6 BC and died at 3 pm on the 3rd. of April 33 AD. The exact dates of no other great religious leader are known to this accuracy based on scriptural reports.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON says
Persecution is a stark reality of living the Christian life. Christian persecution is to be expected: the apostle Paul warned that “everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). Jesus said that, if they persecuted Him, they will also persecute His followers (John 15:20). Jesus made it clear that those of the world will hate Christians because the world hates Christ.
abad says
Amen, and Merry Christmas to all at JW
Frank Scarn says
Merry Christmas, Robert.
gravenimage says
Seconded.
And good to see you posting here, Frank. Happy New Year!
boakai ngombu says
“It is time to fight for our lives.”
Robert, as the fight is already enjoined, it will be a fight to the finish.
May the LORD bless your Christmas with peace, for He accomplishes that for the sake of His Christ. He desires that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the TRUTH. May you be strengthened to face His Salvation with certain HOPE come what may.
Dapto says
The biggest problem is the Pope hates Christians and has picked a side which isnt Christianity.
Rufolino says
Can’t say I agree that the Pope definitively “hates Christians”.
However. Neglectful, ambivalent, confused, distracted and often disgracefully wayward he most certainly is. To put it mildly.
mgoldberg says
To the safety of christians everywhere. The liberty’s and freedoms that have taken some three thousand years to grow and nurture must include this express statement across our nation, and spread across the globe. The inane call by such as the Pope for immigrants inalienable right to go and be entered everywhere
from their failed states represents the failure to defend the rights of people to their liberty and safety, and denies the obligations of individuals and states to each other. Globalist beliefs do not care about people, though the leftists moan about the oppressed, but never about the failures of the nations that created their own failures.
Back to the posts point: yes we indeed need the freedoms for christians to practice and believe and celebrate and so Merry Christmas to all those celebrating. For those who don’t know how to wish them well, why then- celebrate their freedom to believe and to likewise obtain that same freedom for oneself and others.
J D S says
There is another problem that has Christians in the west bamboozled about Islam….THEY DON’T NO NOTHING ABOUT ISLAM! Preachers should , from the pulpits, conferences and every venue possible, informing their flocks just what Islam is ..If necessary read the Koran and Susannah to them or st least make Islamic writings available for study to show that Islam butts up against EVERYTHING that Christianity portrays.
The main fact that should be shown is this…..Islamic teachings say that JESUS is not the Messiah…was not crucified, dead, buried and rose from the grave therefore NOT the sacrificial lamb who’s blood was the saving force from our many sins….Without that..Christianity is nothing and Christians worldwide need to understand that Islamic teachings are in line with all that Satan stands for.
BUT NO! The Church thinks that Islam is just another offshoot of CHristianity who have strayed and won’t stand up and SAY..Islam .is a complete reverse of Christianity and is dedicated to destroying
Christianity. JESUS WAS BORN MEEK AND MILD but in his return He will be the leader of the mightiest Army the world has ever seen and Will vanquish all His enemies….What side do we want to be on.
Walter Sieruk says
Concerning the topics of Christians having every December a “Merry Christmas” in spited of the consistent possible threat of the threats of deadly violence cause by Muslim terrorists. In might be fitting to reiterate what was keyboarded about yet in in a different way.
Which is when some Christians found out about and might even find disturbing the news of Muslims in Jordan in December 2018 and those Muslim gathering together to destroy a Christmas tree. As appropriate reply to those Christians is “So what ?. …that’s rather good behavior for Muslims to do an an Islamic activity …after all ,no one was murdered.”. In terrible contrast the the awful , tragic heinous murders of those two young Scandinavian women who those cruel vicious murderous Muslims ,with all their Islamic misogyny and Muslim hate for all Westerns , literally cut he faces off their heads and then beheaded them.
It truly is a “Merry Christmas” if jihad-minded Muslims keep on destroying Christmas trees and stop murdering people.
Guy Jones says
Beautifully-written, Robert. A belated Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you and your family — wishing you all the best for 2019.
Thank you for all that you do, and, for your inimitable courage and resoluteness to stand against Islamic supremacism and totalitarianism, on behalf of free peoples, everywhere, by educating the masses.
gravenimage says
Seconded, Guy!
dante says
Merry Christmas Robert. Thank you so much for all that you do. You are absolutely one of the most important thinkers/writers in the world. God bless you and may He keep you safe always.