Europe: The Islamization of Christmas

Muslims rejoice when they hear that Islam is the fastest-growing religion on Earth. They believe this growth is proof that Islam is the One True Religion. But as Jesus said in Luke 18:8,"Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" In other words, the more Islam grows and spreads, the less true faith remains on the planet. This is proof that Islam is not the true faith of God. And here we have politicians gleefully offending the majority in order to not offend the minority. How utterly illogical.

What is also telling is the acceptance of the Islamisation of Christmas & the acceptance of the end of Carols, Nativity Scenes & the self censorship of HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Amazing how - as Mark Steyn - says INCH BY INCH your choices are removed & Sharia Approaches & yet the majority seem utterly OBLIVIOUS & CLUELESS!

I at least for EUROPE cannot see a turnaround & I am concerned that the STRANGLEHOLD in the US may prove to be too much for this President to REMOVE!

At least many in the US seem awake & the Return of Christmas in the White House is a very small start !

The biggest internal problem in virtually all Western European countries are the hordes of politically correct (or naive) local lefty policy makers who can't appease the violent and misogynist Muslim culture enough by tweaking and extinguishing our very own. According to their twisted, destructive logic it is perfectly fine - as long as it hurts their own worst enemy, the indigenous citizen with intact common sense who does not bow to their ideals.

I am an American Jew and I do not celebrate Christmas. That being said, I love the Christmas decorations at malls and shopping centers and delight in the gorgeous display of colored lights on trees and on homes especially at night; I listen in exquisite rapture to my local classical music radio station as they play Christmas music from every century, shop the incredible sales both in stores and online, and marvel and sometimes indulge in the most divine Christmas (and Hannukah) treats that abound. I do not feel threatened by this holiday that I don't celebrate -- in fact I make sure to wish all who I know or assume are Christians a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS! How could anyone do otherwise?

Well, English is my second language and I am an atheist, but what I saw in my workplace inbox this year makes me sick. The "festive period" takes the cake... I wonder whether the Islamic festivities shall be renamed as they might be offensive to those not following the murdering child molester?

There are 4.4% Muslims in Britain.There are therefore over 95% non-Muslims.
Muslims shout demand and rage. That's what the Koran tells them to do.
They bully you, frighten you, take away your rights to replace them with theirs.
Because you are politically correct you allow this.
In the past 20 years, you have given up your culture religion education lifestyle to 4.4% immigrants you kindly took into your communities.
You have and are being bullied into oblivion.
Whatever happened to the British bulldog
IF YOU CAN'T SPEAK UP>VOTE

The reason governments in the EU give Muslims whatever they want is fear. They fear these radicals because they are cowardly. Think about what their ancestors did to appease Hitler. They are doing the same as it relates to Islam. This time there isn't a Winston Churchill who will come to the rescue. They are doomed by the "Religion of Peace".

NO matter what Western Europe does to be neutral and secular, Muslims will always be offended. The only appeasement to Muslims is total genocide of the European countries with only Islamic people from the Middle East and Africa.

Islam is the means to take away the land from unfaithful Christians, similar what happened to the unfaithful Jews deported in exile. What will remain from old Europe are the Visegrad states persecuted by EU.

Islam is a backward, primitive cult. It has given the world nothing. This fixation and cowardice makes my blood boil. Arrogance and ignorance are its hallmarks. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists lighten the world. But Islam? Nothing but darkness and blood letting stupidity like Communism too. It is not even an "Abrahamic Religion" but an invention clearly observed by the personal vindictiveness of its supposed illiterate "Founder" whom I believe never existed. I am a Bishop myself and for the Pope to cow tow to this crapulent fakery is an awful betrayal, Islam has more in common with Babylonian worship of Bel-Baal. This is why we see Feminists shouting Allahu Akbar. Pig ignorance all of it.

"This religious fusion, sometimes referred to as "Chrislam," is gaining ground in a West that has become biblically illiterate."

That's it -- that's the problem; there's no need to go any further. The Bible spoke in warning about being aware of the counterfeits, which will come in different forms. For example: 2 Corinthians 11:12:

"But what I am doing, I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the matter about which they are boasting."

They are disguising themselves as people they are not -- representatives of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all that that means.

Even many people of the Book...often never open the Book; so how can they possibly tell the counterfeit?

Many can discern that the onslaught of Islam couldn't possibly be from the God of Judeo-Christianity due to the the numerous ways it contradicts the Judeo-Christian exegesis.

We have been warned that people will come and kill us -- those who adhere explicitly to the Book as given -- and think they are doing service to God, as it tells us in John 16:2.

Warning after warning will not do much good if the Book is not read, as liberalism lays out a red carpet for it's abysmal darkness.

The Crushing of Christianity in the WEST seems to be being done more often than not by by the Western Left & not the Followers of Islam,
Often it is Public Servants who for the most part are LEFTIST MARXISTS of one stripe or another who insist that offence MAY be taken & so the Christian Decorations are removed or the Carols No Longer Sung!
Once the Followers of ISLAM see how eager the LEFT is to destroy Christianity they also join in!
However the media attacks Christianity endlessly & NEVER ISLAM & this is also a MASSIVE driver.
Very seldom if ever are there any complimentary articles about Christianity only articles of how prevalent abuse was in the past & about payments now & about crashing Church goers levels by denomination.
Christmas has been reduced to - Have a Merry Holiday & yet few say anything including members of the CHURCHES!
The POPE seems to have also BOWED to ISLAM!
Christianity in the WEST is in TERRIBLE TROUBLE!

Just as Martin Luther could no longer tolerate the abuses in the Church, so a day will come when another Luther will speak out against the current leadership of the main Christian Churches of the West. Against the erroneous belief that the church is a type of social service and enmeshed in the day to day of the world. Then again a call for Reformation but this time it will be for a return to the old ways of the world and to the eternal values of our civilisation.

We have stark choice here. Either we give up our countries to Islam and its appeasers or we start to fight back. It is that simple and has been so for centuries.

Muslims are clearly instructed in the Qur'an and by their Imams not to assimilate or even integrate with other cultures. This makes it impossible for devout Muslims to view non-Muslims as fellow human beings with equal rights under the law of the land. Under these preconditions, why would anyone in his right mind consider fostering a trusting relationship with a devout Muslim. Unless proven to me otherwise, I have no choice but to consider all devout Muslims to be potentially dangerous religious bigots. Given current conditions, I reserve the right to exercise the precautionary principle. There's no benefit of the doubt for me as long as cries of "Allahu Ahkbar" echo down the streets of the Western World. Merry Christmas everybody!

Most of these Western European nations have long ago made a complete mockery of their Christian heritages with wholesale capitulation to socialism and religious syncretism. Being led by the nose by Islam is only a logical precursor to a descent back into tyranny and barbarism. When Europe declared that God is dead it was Europe that died.

Muslims do not suppress, or muffle any aspect of their religion in an attempt to appease, or show tolerance of any other belief, and neither should Christians, or any other non-Muslims. Muslims only see such appeasement as acts of submission, admission that Islam is superior, and supreme.

The leftist morons who seem to be in control of everything are trying to use Islam to overturn western cultures, so that they can replace them with their socialist, one-world/one-Europe beliefs, and lessen the resistance of the European peoples to being incorporated into their intended EU super-state. They fail to see the strength and fanaticism of Islam. If they succeed in suppressing Christian cultures and national loyalties, they will find they have a much more virulent opponent in Islam -- an opponent that will not be bribed, badgered, or propagandized into submission, but will have to be defeated in battle to prevent it from ruling.

Soeren Kern has alerted the Christian community -- the community that advocates peace and love, and which has been the underpinning of all the wonder, beauty and success of Western democracies -- to the cowardice, and self-serving conduct of political elites across the EU. My disgust with these 'leaders' could not be greater. Without detailing the many and varied, unsavoury and brutal conducts of Mohammedism, and there are MANY, it is an inescapable truth that, at least in the EU, we have entered an Orweillian crackpot reality -- where uncivilized and cultural primitivism is being promoted as not just an equal -- but as a superior manner in which to adore God. These 'leaders' have failed to comprehend that it is we citizens of the 21st century who should be educating those who are still anchored to centuries long past. They have abdicated their duty to those who voted them into office; it is equally clear that these people are no friends of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. The countries in which these revelations are taking place will profit from such a grand betrayal. Personally, when their "rewards" commence, I would hope to be millions of miles distant because it will be bloody, and well deserved carnage.

I don't understand why Muslims should feel offended by Christmas celebrations, except as another excuse to impose their will on others. I am Jewish and I was never offended by Christmas celebrations when I lived in the States, and, in fact, Christmas had become so commercialized that I never felt it any different than any other holiday. (I'm sure the commercialization of Christmas is difficult for many Christians to bear but that is not the point I am making here.) Why should Christians be so thoughtful of Muslim sensitivities when the Muslims make no attempt to honor Christian or other sensitivities? Fear, perhaps.

I do not know of a single Jew who objects to Merry Christmas, Christmas carols, Christmas trees, nor any other aspect of Christmas in the West. How many of the spineless politicians in the West, ever think to ask about when does Islam EVER make any concessions to Christians, let alone Jews? How many churches and synagogues are open in Saudi Arabia? Yeah, that's what I thought. If the Muslim students are so offended by "Christmas," then let them go back to sandland to celebrate Muhammad's birthday. And preferably, stay there in perpetuity.

Thanks for this sad review. It is not the Muslims that are requesting to Dechristianise Christmas. The European anti-Christians existing since 2 centuries have finally the justification they were looking for. The first enemy of Christianity are the extremists of the West.

Although I have seen examples of this in my own native country (Sweden) it breaks my heart and I "choke-up" when I realize how widespread this bending over backwards for the muslim/Islamic traditions.

Why don't we insist that they MUST accept our Christian values, practices and traditions, if they want to live in our western countries? We do NOT deny them practicing their traditions in their countries. We do not insist they "convert" when we accept them living in our Christian countries.

My personal view is that accepting Islam is to go backwards and betray the civilization we have achieved so far in the developed countries.

There is something terribly wrong with the thinking of administrators in schools, civic councils, and many politicians. Christmas is for Christians---an important holiday to celebrate and in no way should be interpreted as an offense to Moslems. This holiday, both religious and festive in nature and of longstanding tradition, should not be avoided to appease any other group. Should we not take offense with the celebration of Ramadan---of course not. So the entire situation is absurd. Christmas should be celebrated as always, and this so-called offense to Islam should be totally unacceptable to Christians and society in general. Islam should not dictate to us and we should not dictate to their beliefs. This nonsense should be overturned and returned to what has always been acceptable to all in our communities. By the way, I am not of the Christian faith so my opinion is totally unbiased, but tolerant to all.

Europe is giving a ride to Devil. Now the Devil wants to "drive the car". It is a shame what is happening: Islam has nothing to do with the Bible. Jesus Christ has no relation with Mohammed, or any other "prophet". In short, if they do not agree with Christmas, THEY SHOULD GO BACK TO THEIR SO "BELOVED" COUNTRIES. If they were living in a good place, why did they leave their paradises?

Soeren Kern rightly analyses the actions and attitudes of the liberal elites in Western Europe as capitulation to Islam. Fortunately Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania and recently Austria are very sensibly rebelling against the invasion of a historically aggressive, alien and inimical religion that will, if left unopposed, undermine the bedrock of European culture and the individual freedom, democracy and equality of the sexes that have been hard won over centuries. Even if Christianity is not embraced as a regular part of the lives of individual Europeans, it is the faith that informs our history and culture.

All faiths bar Islam are compatible with Christianity. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists etc all assimilate happily into Western societies, making no special demands for their religion or culture - thus they are happily embraced and respected within European societies - but Islam is totally different and always has been. It is an all-conquering, all-dominating religion that demands special treatment for its followers. Its tenets are intolerant and often cruel: one of your commentators today appropriately mentions the huge number of suras (verses) of the Koran that demand death for the infidel.

It is utterly naive of non-Moslems to believe that a Europe dominated by Islam will be anything other than a copy of all the states ruled by that religion. Every non-Moslem will be a dhimmi, a citizen with fewer rights and women will be reduced to the role they suffer in most Islamic societies: that of second-class citizens with very few legal rights. The only way to save Europe is for a far greater awareness to be gained among non-Moslems of the true nature and agenda of Islam and its fundamentalist protagonists. The clock is ticking fast and there is little time to start reversing the damage already done.

This is a purposeful process of imposing Sunni Islam on the West orchestrated by the highest levels of progressive, neocon and even some Christian leadership. Islam has ALL the characteristics secularists crave for.

As I have said many times over the past few years- Europe is committing suicide. Muslims push and push- gain political positions of authority also within the police- and take over through intimidation, murder and rape. That is how they expanded across the Arabian world centuries ago. They murdered and threatened the Christians, Jews and Pagans who lived then and are doing the same thing now. They are bullies and thugs and want to control the wealth which Christians and Jews have produced as well as the armies and nuclear weapons.

Sometime past, over 10 years ago, I was attending an intel brief before our deployment. They claimed the Shiites in Iraq would pose no problem, this was immediately after the events depicted in the NTL Geo, presentation of "The Long Road Home". I kept challenging the analysis as flawed. Events proved that I, a lone voice, was correct. Later I was asked by the head of intel how I knew?

It was for the same reasons that are stated here. Many of our top tier military leaders lived in submission to Islam abroad on long deployments, I'm not saying they all go native, although some have, but they do become Islamic submissive as a consequence.

One of the intel officers who disputed my incredulity about Shiite quiescence to our infidel American presence in Iraq stated the exact same depiction of Jesus is the same in Judaism, Christian and Islamic belief. A Muslim says that not because he embraces the belief of a divine Jesus believed to be g-d incarnate, that is punishable by death under Islam.

Can we find points of agreement? Sure Iraqis have said they believe Jesus was the perfect man, but it stops there.

In order to perpetuate the myth of commonality of beliefs two tracks are taken, the first is Christianity and Judaism begin in the 7th Century. But Prophet's reliance on what he believed Judaism and Christianity is obviously flawed by stating them as origins, because either it is an open admission he did not understand the message of either religions or for those who can follow the philosophical flaw his premise about other faiths is stuck in infinite regression.

The second track is dialectical, which explains in part the spirit of Soviet Islamist period of co-operation. Judaism and Christianity were merely thesis and antithesis and dualism is resolved by the synthesis that is Islam. We are supposed to believe that Islam is an advanced religious expression simply because it originates centuries after Jewish and Christian history. that is simply a false assumption, only a Marxist or some dullard stuck on infinite regression by way of explanation will never grasp the fallacy of their beliefs.

What is the best way to resolve the disparity and contrasts of belief? What Stalin and Hitler did, annihilate any thing that disputes or may prove false you beliefs. That is why liberal Socialists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists and radical Islamists share such a rich tradition in mass murder.

Well, aside from being monotheistic, everything else about Islam is extremely, extremely pagan in nature, so it makes sense that accommodating their wishes will result in an entirely pagan oriented society.

I don't agree with islamic immigration. It's a war crime and completely unsustainable financially.

All-inclusiveness, multiculturalism, equality = oppression and loss of freedom.

Seems Christians are doing all the Giving Up. What do Muslims do to make Christians feel included in their celebrations? The answer is Nothing. Christians are becoming Cowards. You Christians better get Ready to Fight for your beliefs or be ready to Surrender.

With Islam it has always been a one way road. Inroads into other societies and cultures but No Entry in its lands. Time the world woke up to this sinister preference.

Aww, I bet it will be better in a generation when Islam in Europe is 3x as large as it is now.

Simply read the Quran and notice that there are 109 verses at least that command the killing of the Kafir (Infidel). I look at Germany in remberance of Martin Luther who started the Christian Reformation and all of the churches in Europe today and wonder with such a great heritage of Reformers (John Calvin, John Knox etc .), if they have not become a lukewarm, tolerant of evil church (s) as Jesus described in Revelation chapter 2.

Here in Ireland in the biggest hospital in Dublin, a nativity crib in the foyer has been removed by the administration in case it offends anyone who is non-Christian. The whole of Europe is now under Sharia law.

Of course when the EU constitution was being formulated, it left GOD out of it, even though so many Christian leaders implored that God be placed at the heart of the constitution. The official American motto is "In God We Trust"...thank God for America. Remove God, Satan enters victorious...we see what is happening to Europe...

If you read the Koran you cannot fail to get the impression that its author had a particular beef with Jesus. Strenuous efforts are made to wrest the story of Jesus into something new so it can be a possession of the final revelation of Mohammed. The sonship of Jesus and Divinity and sacred story of triumph of overcoming the world through crucifixion and becoming fully Divine and realised has to be scrubbed, otherwise Mohammed's status is diminished. He quite plainly did not want to see himself as anything less than Allah's right hand man, and Jesus, unbowdlerised, would have interfered with that. Then the Christians are of course the avowed foe and kafir who must be killed of converted or conquered.

How anyone can think there can be some syncretism of Christianity with Islam beats me. The Koranic Jesus is completely de-sacralised and de-divinised to fit into to the preoccupations of Mohammed. Islam is ANTI-Christian, patently and by its own declaration, own words and own record. Maybe there can be some syncretism between Buddhism and Christianity or Hinduism and Christianity. Certainly where Christianity has taken root there has been accommodation with animistic beliefs at times, or other ancient tradition - in England probably with druidic roots and Celtic and even nordic. The one place where that cannot work is with Islam. Islam does not just fail to include Christian belief: it is uniquely, avowedly anti-Christian.
Hitler also claimed to be a good Christian.
In reality he despised Christianity, but the persona of a good earnest Christian was very useful to him with a nominally Christian country where most people did not care to delve too deeply into what Christianity actually was.
This has some resemblance to the situation with Islam . The puddleheaded
populace and clergy and authorities seem unable to go any deeper with Islam than Germans did with Hitler, when it comes to Christianity.

We who read with dismay these stories of capitulation to Islam passed off as openness, tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness are in the unfortunate position of being powerless to prevent any of it taking place.

The general public, unless they seek out online reports such as this, will generally be unaware of the extent and long term consequences of the surrender to Islam. In any case they will see tolerance, diversity and inclusiveness praised to the skies as noble virtues of which they should be proud. These, we are told are the virtues of an enlightened people. Only ignorant and atavistic populists could possibly object (and who would want to be associated with them).

In our broadcast media Islamisation is routinely portrayed as a non-problem which sensible and fair-minded people will not be concerned about. In fact the only permitted areas of concern are whether Islamic communities might harbour terrorists or whether a growing muslim population is putting a strain on public services (cue sociaist calls for greater funding).

In TV news and current affairs the potential for a major cultural transformation is either ignored or portrayed as enriching and inevitable (so we'd better get used to it). Politicians reckless enough to raise objections to this "inevitable" future are smeared as far right fanatics.

Europeans have completely lost their mind & soul!
Of course it's them who will pay for it in the end.

Europe in effect replaced the peaceful Jew with militant Islam when it is not Islamic terror. Bravo! Jews! No time to lose leave Europe, please.