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Another Christmas in the Age of Jihad: Oppression and Appeasement

Dec 25, 2019 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Oppression of Christians in Muslim lands and appeasement of Muslims in post-Christian lands. My latest in FrontPage:

Another Christmas is upon us, and the story is familiar: in Muslim lands, Christians are oppressed and in constant danger of violent jihad attacks. And in the lands once known as Christendom, Christians freely abdicate their own traditions and mores in order to appease and accommodate Muslims.

Take, for example, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia. In the Sharia-compliant Aceh province, the BBC reported Monday that Christians “are preparing to celebrate Christmas in makeshift tents in the jungle.” Why? Because “their churches were destroyed four years ago by Islamic vigilante groups and the police,” and “local authorities are stopping them from rebuilding.”

Another Indonesian province, West Sumatra, has “banned Christians from celebrating Christmas in private homes….This year, authorities have barred Christians from holding worship services and Christmas celebrations in Sungai Tambang, Sijunjung Regency and Jorong Kampung Baru, Dharmasraya Regency in West Sumatra.” An Indonesian named Sudarto, who is director of the Center for Inter-Community Studies, explained: “They did not get permission from the local government since the Christmas celebration and worship were held at the house of one of the Christians who had been involved. The local government argued that the situation was not conducive. It has been going on for a long time, so far they have been quietly worshiping at the home of one of the worshipers, but they have applied for permission several times. Yet the permit to celebrate Christmas was never granted.”

Nor is that all: “The house where they performed worship services was once burned down in early 2000 due to resistance from residents.”

Anti-Christian sentiment in Indonesia runs so high that Indonesian President Joko Widodo felt it necessary to warn Muslims against committing violence against Christians on Christmas. Nearly 200,000 police officers have been deployed to protect the nation’s Christians.

Meanwhile, in Australia, according to 3aw.com, “a couple were left stranded and out of pocket after a rideshare driver refused to pick them up because they had a Christmas ham….They ordered an Uber, but as they approached the car the driver told them the ride was cancelled.” Why? “The driver told the couple he wouldn’t take them home with the ham because he was Muslim.” But surely Uber fired or at least disciplined this supremacist clown, no? No. In fact, Uber charged the couple for a cancelled ride.

In England, reports the Mail on Sunday, “children at a primary school have been told not to sing the word ‘Lord’ in the Christmas carol Away In A Manger – so that pupils of all beliefs can join in….Youngsters at Whitehall Primary School in Chingford, Essex, have also been told to sing edited versions of two modern hymns when they attend a carol service and nativity play at a nearby church on Tuesday. The words ‘Jesus the saviour’ in the carol Love Shone Down have been replaced with ‘Jesus the baby’, while the words ‘new King born today’ in the carol Come And Join The Celebration have been replaced with ‘a baby born today.’”

Why? Whitehall Primary School head teacher Zakia Khatun explained that she didn’t want students of other beliefs to feel “excluded.” She “defended her decision, insisting the school is inclusive of all children, and maintained that last year 60 children did not attend the carol service and nativity at St Peter and St Paul Church in Chingford because of their religious beliefs.”

Britain has been home to non-Christians for centuries, and they never complained about Christmas carols. There is only one group in Britain that might object to calling Jesus “Lord,” and that group isn’t likely to attend the Christmas pageant now that the word has been removed, because the whole idea of celebrating the birth of Jesus is predicated upon the now-unmentionable title.

One mother noted: “If he was just a baby boy named Jesus, there wouldn’t be a celebration in the first place. He is our Lord and Saviour and King of all Kings – that’s the whole point. It is also a tradition – it is taking away the traditions of the country.”

Yeah.

And in Germany, a Muslim woman who supports the Islamic State (ISIS) “started an apprenticeship as a truck driver sponsored by the employment office, where she also stood out due to radical statements. During a driving exercise, she is said to have answered the teacher’s question of where she actually wanted to go: ‘I’m going to the next Christmas market.’” Christmas markets in Europe have more than once been targeted for jihad massacres.

None of this is new, or surprising. It’s just another Christmas in the age of jihad.

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  1. Kepha says

    Dec 25, 2019 at 6:47 pm

    Way back in the 1930’s a profesor of Greek at Princeton Theological Seminary named J. Gresham Machen wrote a little book entitled _Christianity and Liberalism_, in which he answered such theological liberals as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Shailer Matthew, and others, noting that the religion they promulgated was not Christianity in any sense. Think of that next time you hear of some bishopette–even Pope Frankie– or suchlike “freely surrendring [Christian] traditions.” It is one reason why our “respectable” religious leaders are part of the problem rather than part of the solution in holding back an aggressive Islamicism.

  2. James Lincoln says

    Dec 25, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    This Christmas day, I stumbled across a short 30 minute film starring James Stewart entitled Mr. Krueger’s Christmas. It was shot in 1980.

    It’s a nice counterbalance to the extreme negativity of islam.

    I have included a link to the YouTube video below.

    Enjoy!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 26, 2019 at 11:35 pm

      Thanks for the link, James. I know a lot of Christmas films and specials, but was unfamiliar with this. I love Jimmy Stewart. I’ll watch this video as soon as I have time.

      I would also recommend another Christmas film of his, the well-loved “It’s a Wonderful Life” from 1946.

  3. JHL says

    Dec 25, 2019 at 7:51 pm

    Merry Christmas to all, and I wish everyone a muslim-free Christmas and a muslim-free new years!

    • JMP says

      Dec 25, 2019 at 11:29 pm

      Uber is actually a Saudi Arabian start up company.

      • gravenimage says

        Dec 27, 2019 at 9:25 pm

        Disturbingly, the Saudis own 10% of Uber.

        But this still *hardly* makes them a Saudi company.

    • Clifford Fodor says

      Dec 25, 2019 at 11:47 pm

      And a muslim-free NATO.

  4. abad says

    Dec 25, 2019 at 8:02 pm

    Merry Christmas to everyone at JW!

  5. william carr says

    Dec 26, 2019 at 3:39 am

    Yet even if a non Muslim merely hurts the feelings of one of the ‘persecuted’ Muslims in the WEST he/she will be hauled of to jail for a ‘hate’ crime.

  6. Agostino Armo Pellegrini says

    Dec 26, 2019 at 9:08 am

    Spencer has done a good job of highlighting these injustices against Christians, but are enough people listening? Are politicians standing in defense of these victims of religious persecution? All we ever seem to hear about is how muslims are victims of right wing hate even though the opposite is true, muslims are doing 99% of the hating for religion. Christians are terrorized daily at the hands of muslims, denied their right to worship or worse, murdered and run out of town. And now this hate is creeping into our own Western societies, muslims don’t instantly mature simply because they move West. In fact, I suggest their sense of islamic identity is actually intensified and strengthened because they see our culture as a threat to their own. I think loudmouth Linda Sarsour expressed it best,

    Our number one and top priority is to protect and defend our community. It is not to assimilate and to please any other people in authority.

    And we know she’s speaking the truth, the enclaves are their “community” and we’re just people they will never assimilate with. They only tolerate our “people in authority” because it’s expedient to islam’s long term goals, and by “long term” I’m talking about a couple of decades at most. Europe has stage 4 cancer with these muslims, short of war I don’t see how they can recover. Persecution of Christians is no longer a “far away” problem, it’s in our own nations because muslims are too. And all those leftists that lie and shill for islam are facilitating this terror against Christians, and other “infidels” too. Because any time you lie or cover up crime you are an aider and abettor. These are the real haters of the world, those who encourage humanitarian crimes to protect a depraved religion that terrorizes and kills for bigoted reasons.

    Get these leftist appeasers out of politics! They are using islam to destroy our democracy and freedoms!

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