My latest in PJ Media:
In an interview with Mike Huckabee last week, Donald Trump spoke about his efforts to get store clerks to say “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays,” and remarked: “Whether you’re Muslim, whether you’re Christian, whether you’re Jewish, everyone loves Christmas.” In a Friday sermon on December 17, however, a popular imam in Canada, Younus Kathrada, expressed a decidedly different view of how Muslims should view Christmas. Unfortunately, Kathrada is not an outlier.
Kathrada observed:
Yes, it’s Christmas season, so many people ask: “Why should I not congratulate the people on this occasion?” There is no such thing as an innocent congratulation. No! Would you congratulate a fornicator? Would you congratulate a murderer? Obviously not! Would you congratulate a pedophile? Obviously not! So then how can you congratulate people for insulting Allah? Where is your love for your creator, when you approve of people insulting Allah? It is a major sin, and it is disbelief. O Allah, give strength to Islam and the Muslims, humiliate the infidels and the polytheists, destroy the enemies of religion, annihilate the heretics and the atheists. O Allah, support those who wage jihad for your sake everywhere.
Last Christmas, Ahmad Kulab of the Department for Training of Preachers in Hamas’ Ministry of Religious Endowments, declared: “We are not allowed to congratulate the Christians on their holidays. Christians must [keep] the celebration of their holidays to their homes, their houses of worship, and their churches.”
Echoing Kathrada’s words, he added: “Are we supposed to congratulate the Christians for their denial of Allah?…This culture has entered our Muslim countries and erases Islamic identity and faith. It changes the behavior of our children and contaminates their immaculate faith. In addition, the Holy Quran encourages us to dissent against the dwellers of Hellfire, the Jews and the Christians.”
Even Santa was verboten:
Santa Claus is a witty and jolly personality who hands out sweets and presents in order to influence people. This image of Santa Claus constitutes an invasion of Muslim countries, because they want to ingrain the image of Santa Claus [among Muslim]. The character of Santa Claus glorifies prominent Christians, monks who used to propagate the Holy Trinity and Christianity among Roman youth, giving out presents, sweets, and so on….If [a Christian] says to me: “Happy holidays!,” I can reply with something general, and say: “May you be happy, too.” But I say that we do not even have to say this. Even if they congratulate us, we do not have to answer them. We can remain silent. That is better for us, in order to avoid falling into sin, as the Islamic scholars said.
Zakir Naik, an Islamic preacher and apologist who is renowned among Muslims worldwide, agreed: “When you are wishing Merry Christmas to them, you are agreeing that he is the son of God and that is Shirk [sin]. Because they believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God….Is saying Merry Christmas wrong? I am telling you it is wrong. It is 100% wrong according to me….If you don’t know what Christmas stands for and happen to wish someone, Allah may forgive you. If you drink alcohol, mistaking it for Pepsi, Allah may forgive you. But if you are doing it to build a relationship after knowing what Christmas stands for, you are building your place in Jahannam [Hell].” A Muslim cleric in Germany put it more succinctly: “Christmas is an insult to Allah!”
There is more. Read the rest here.
Jim says
The Imam is obviously a radical extremist. The faith and culture he thinks so highly of may benefit him or his class, but it is not beneficial to most people. If very many think like him, then perhaps the problem is not the radical extremists but the Muslims.
spiro says
The problem is Islam
mortimer says
Imam Kathrada is preaching pure Islam, rather than a watered-down, moderate Islam that doesn’t exist.
The proof of what Kathrada preaches is confirmed below, namely, that Muslims must SEGREGATE themselves from non-Muslim KAFIRS and avoid contact with KAFIR culture.
OFFICIAL QATARI FATWA RE HATING JEWS AND CHRISTIANS:
“The reasons to hate Christians and Jews are many. As to Christians, you could say what you like about a community with the essence of its beliefs: that Allah is a third of three, that Mary is his girlfriend, and Jesus his son, and he descended from his majestic seat and got attached to the womb of his girlfriend, and happened what happened till he got killed, died and buried. Its (Christian) religion is the worship of crosses, and praying to pictures hanging on walls and painted in red and yellow, and they say in their prayers: you mother of God bestow upon us, forgive us, and give us your mercy! Their religion is drinking alcohol, eating pigs, leave circumcision, worship the mucky, and the violation of all malignant from elephant to mosquito. What’s sanctimonious and what’s unholy is what their priest decides and religion is what he legislate. He forgives their sins and delivers them from the tormenting blaze.
As for Jews, those are the nation of anger, the people of lies, treachery, deceit, and trickery. The killers of prophets and the eaters of unclean wealth –which is the usury and bribes- the most insidious of all nations, and lowest of temper, and farthest from mercy, and closest to resentment. Their custom is loathing, and habit enmity and abhorring: the house of black magic, lies, and trickery. They don’t see in those who disagree with their disbelief and lies a sanctity, and when facing a believer they tend to insult, and even those who agree with them have no rights nor mercy among them, and so are those who join them are given neither justice nor remedy, nor have those who mix with them given any tranquility nor peace, and those who employed them are given no advise. For their most wicked is their wisest, their smartest is their biggest cheater, and their good intending –God forbids one exist among them- would not be a Jew in reality. The most intolerant of nations, their most oppressive of houses, their most rotten yards, and their most barren of tempers. Greeting them… a profanity, meeting them… a sacrilege. Their motto …anger, and their precept… disgust.”
Kathrada is a ‘good’ Muslim and preaches the actual, true version of Islam.
gravenimage says
Trump Says ‘Everybody Loves Christmas,’ Including Muslims, But an Imam Disagrees
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Actually, all pious Muslims disagree.
somehistory says
Yes, and the terrorists among them have shown it by their actions….at Christmas markets, and killing Santa.
gravenimage says
You are not wrong, Somehistory. Muslims have plotted or attacked Churches and worshipers, Christmas markets, Christmas tree lighting ceremonies, Christmas shoppers, and nativity scenes.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Obviously, a Muslim cannot accept the Christian faith.
Christianity condemns slavery. Christians are not enslaved by God, they are free with all the dangers associated with freedom and self-fulfillment.
Every one can pick his choice. I choose the freedom of thought and conscience whatever some people must think.
gravenimage says
True, Lavéritétriomphera–but it goes further than this. Muslims do not have to accept the Christian faith in the sense of converting to it–just of letting others peacefully pracitce their own religions. But even this is un-Islamic.
Lavéritétriomphera says
Bonjour gravenimage,
The Islamic leaders fear that their flock envy our freedom.
We must keep in mind the totalitarian systems are prisons.
Amitiés
somehistory says
OT’ the poorest town in MI is the one with all-mozlum government.
“A cheerful report from CNN.”
For decades, Hamtramck was known as Michigan’s “Little Warsaw,” a city of just two square miles of tightly-packed houses and factories, spitting distance from downtown Detroit.
In the 99 years since its incorporation, every mayor of Hamtramck has been Polish American. That ends January 2, in Hamtramck’s centenary year, when Amer Ghalib will be inaugurated, along with an entirely Muslim city council.
Hamtramck will become the first known city in the US with a government made up entirely of Muslims, according to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which says it has no record of any other such administration.
The news network couldn’t be more thrilled at the displacement.
“Hamtramck is a palimpsest — where new immigrants have laid layers of culture and society on top of what was already there. You can enjoy a sizzling Yemeni foul — a spicy bean stew — and flatbread for breakfast, and still find a kielbasa or a pierogi for lunch. And Hamtramck is now back on the rise, one of the fastest growing cities in Michigan, census figures show.
“Hamtramck was ranked the poorest town in Michigan in a 24/7 Wall St. analysis examining small, lower-income communities where households earn much less than the nation’s median annual household income.
With a population of 21,941, Hamtramck recorded a median home value of $64,500, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 American Community Survey.
Hamtramck’s poverty rate was pegged at 49.1 percent, and its median annual household income came in at $25,478.
It also has the school district with the second-highest child poverty rate in the state. You can get Yemeni foul, but some 84% of kids are on subsidized or free lunches.”
from Daniel Greenfield
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/the-first-all-muslim-government-is-the-poorest-town-in-michigan/
gravenimage says
Yes–terrifying. And Muslims do not make up the majority there–this is not even representative government.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Do not congratulate the fornicator, murderer, or pedophile, you say?
But doesn’t that describe Mohammed?
This vile, confused old man needs a nursing home, not a bully pulpit.
gravenimage says
More Taqiyya.
Infidel says
You beat me to it! That was the first thing that crossed my mind when I read that statement
rubioncrest says
Perfect! What you so is so true but of course Muslim’s cannot say such things; it’s blasphemy. This ‘vile old’ Imam would not want to slander the prophet. God Islam is a treat!
gravenimage says
They can say such things–it just depends on how they say them. If you condemn the “Prophet” as a rapist and murderer, that is “blasphemy” and unacceptable; if you laud him as highly-sexed and smiting his enemies, then that is perfectly Islamic.
Melc says
I had to laugh when the idiot imam said ‘would you congratulate a pedophile?’.
The biggest pedophile was Mohamed himself marrying a 6 year old and consumating the marriage when she was 9 and she was still playing with her dollies. Md. was 57.
Hypocrisy to put it mildly.
gravenimage says
So true, Melc.
Nigel Blumenthal says
People who think like this so-called religious leader do not have any place in any society that is not 100% muslim. Therefore they should be deported from any country that is not a muslim society, kicked out and not allowed to live there, or even visit, or even breathe the same air – they would see that as poisonous, so we don’t have to tolerate their extremism.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Nigel.
Clifford Fodor says
We can’t rely on Trump to always do what is right when it comes to the Muslims. He would not place Saudi Arabian on the list of Islamic terrorist states. He made an $8 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia. As for Christianity, he can’t even pronounce II Corinthians correctly.
Infidel says
To be fair, he did point out that Saudi Arabia does $0.5T of arms business w/ us, and that’s nothing to sneeze at, when that’s both the magnitude of our deficits, makes a dent in the national debt and these sales keep jobs running in companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and so on. So on the Khashoggi murder, he chose not to make that relationship a casualty of the crime
I do agree that Saudi Arabia, along w/ Pakistan, should have been on the travel ban list, which has now totally been lifted. That said, though, the Saudi Arabia that’s being run by MbS is very different from the one that used to be run by Kings Fahd and Abdullah, and that country has stopped funding dawa and mosques outside the Arab world, and declared Tabhlighi Jamaat a terrorist group. The 2017 conference that was held in Riyadh did have an effect at least on Saudi Arabia, and maybe even on countries like Sudan and Morocco. I’d however like to see a future Trump administration not only re-introduce the travel ban, but add countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to it
gravenimage says
Trump was far better a Western leader than most when it came to dealing with the threat of Islam. But there is a lot about Islam itself that he does not understand, so his stance has sadly never been entirely consistent.
notnolib says
Over at the terror website cair.com, they don’t congratulate Christians on their celebrations. It’s a violation of the gutter-cult’s mandate.
E T says
He is just another feckless freak who seems to be protected by M-103. Justine says you cannot call him a barbarian.
Alfredo says
Younus Kathrada is a symptom of a deep malaise in the West. What on earth are these haters doing in Canada? Insulting Canadians by projecting onto them the same sins their so-called prophet was guilty of?
Fornicator? Guilty! Child molester? Guilty! Murderer? Guilty! Why is this loathsome lowlife allowed to remain in Canada spewing his venom?
Do you think if a Christian or a Jew started spreading such hateful bilge in Saudia Arabia, Pakistan, Iran or any other country where that seventh century hate monger is worshipped as a deity would be allowed to remain for long and not be publicly lynched?
The answer is obvious! He would not last very long. But in countries where tolerance is practiced to self- destructive lengths, these hate mongers are not deported but allowed to remain and florish.
It is this masochist behaviour that embolden these despicable characters to insult Christian and Jewish Canadians openly with alacrity certain of their impunity.
It is this masochism that embolden too many worshippers of that seventh century hate monger to be openly contemptuous of Canada.
The very generous nation that too often puts a roof over their head, sends a welfare cheque, provides Medicare to the very same haters who loathe and have open contempt for Canada?
Why is Canada importing this king of people who come to the country and contribute nothing productive, constructive and uplifting?
Alfredo says
RE Correction
Why is Canada importing this kind people who come to the country and contribute nothing productive, constructive?