Posted on 12/30/2014 3:43:19 AM PST by HomerBohn
Tis the season for abject folly?
There has long been a movement to ban authentic Christmas carols from American schools. Now some German politicians and religious leaders are recommending that Muslim carols be sung in some of their institutions their churches during Christmas services.
The idea, which supposedly would increase tolerance, also involves the singing of Christian songs in mosques.
Of course, critics would point out that the two actions are not equivalent, since no Muslim high holy day falls on the 25th. Many would also suspect that church leaders are far more likely to entertain the idea than are Muslim ones; this seems especially true since only the Imam sings during Islamic services.
The idea is a response to the burgeoning PEGIDA movement. Loosely translated as Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, it has inspired increasingly well-attended marches of late, with 17,000 gathering and singing Christmas carols in Dresden just yesterday. The group objects to Germanys loose immigration policy, which, following the trend in Western Europe, has led to rapid Islamization in the country. Germany is now home to approximately 3,000 mosques and Muslim prayer halls, including what upon completion will be one of Europes largest Islamic houses of worship, the Cologne Central Mosque; and Muslims constitute the majority of the school systems in some parts of the nation.
Even though this musical ecumenism would likely be a one-sided effort, some advocate it enthusiastically. Focus.de reports that Omid Nouri Pour, a Green Party member of parliament of Iranian descent, told the Bild newspaper Monday (translated from German), It would be a great sign of peace among the religions, when in a church an Islamic song is sung and in a mosque a Christmas song. And Junge Freiheit reports (translated from German) that Central Council of Muslims in Germany chairman Ayman Mazyek also encouraged churches to sing Islamic songs at Christmastime, saying It would be a wonderful sign of peace and compassion.
Mazyek even recommended a song: "Tala'a al-Badru alayna" (The White Moon Rose Over Us) by legendary singer Cat Stevens, a Muslim convert who now calls himself Yusuf Islam.
Junge Freiheit continues, We need understanding, respect and tolerance, said SPD [Social Democrat Party] member of parliament of Baden-Württemberg, Thomas Funk, praising the proposal.
But not everyone shares Funks sentiments. In fact, if one Muslim cleric had his way, people wouldnt even be saying Merry Christmas to one another, let alone singing carols. In a 2011 video once again circulating in social media, Lebanese-born Islamic scholar Abu Musaab Wajdi Akkari minces no words opining on the yuletide wish. He says:
You cannot say Merry Christmas, not even if an alien came and he told you you cannot even say it to him and say: Hes just an alien; Im never going to see him again; hes not going to tell anyone.
No Merry Christmas. Not from a Muslim, not from a non-Muslim. Its not part of our [religion] period.
Its the concept that God was born on the 25th of December. Thats as [polytheistic] and [heretical] as you can get. And you say Merry Christmas, saying Congratulations on your false religion; congratulations on your false understanding of life. You are congratulating them on the most evil of [polytheism] and [heresy]. And as [Sunni Muslim theologian] Ibn Qayyim said:
This is worse than fornication, and drinking alcohol and killing someone.
Because youre approving of the biggest crime ever committed by the children of Adam, [polytheism].
Many critics point out that such Islamic chauvinism isnt unusual. Nor should it be unexpected; just as a zealous Democrat or Republican is sure the other side is wrong and that everyone should embrace his ideology, no one will truly govern his life with a faith unless he believes it reflects Truth, that its absolutely correct.
In contrast, many in Germany especially among its leadership are defined by whats politically correct. While PEGIDA protesters hold placards expressing sentiments such as Zero tolerance towards criminal asylum seekers, Stop the Islamization, and Protect our homeland, Justice Minister Heiko Maas condemned the movement as a shame for Germany while other leftists have demeaned its rally-goers as pinstripe Nazis (ironic since Adolf Hitler held Islam in high esteem and allied himself with the WWII-era Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini).
In fact, Germanys ruling elite is so opposed to populist, PEGIDA-like movements that it has actually used the machinery of government against them. As The New American wrote last month reporting on the construction of yet another mega-mosque in Germany, a $51 million behemoth in Munich:
Originally called the Center for Islam in Europe-Munich and rumored to be oriented toward the radical Wahhabi Muslim sect, its opponents have alleged that it is designed to be a key strategic platform for spreading Islam throughout Europe, as the Gatestone Institutes Soeren Kern put it in 2013. And the matter has inspired government surveillance.
Of the mosques critics.
And now a court in Bavaria has reaffirmed that such spying is lawful.
Moreover, a referendum that would have allowed local citizens to decide if the mosque should be constructed has been blocked by Munich city officials even though twice the necessary number of signatures for the referendum to proceed were gathered.
The referendum supporters also suspect that the Munich mosque is being funded by very undemocratic forces namely, the Sharia-guided, petroleum-rich and potentate-ruled emirate of Qatar, which is constructing Wahhabist mega-mosques all across Europe. Wahhabism is the extremist sect of Islam that was embraced and advanced by feared terrorist Osama bin Laden.
As for average Germans, their opinion seems to fall somewhere between the elites pusillanimity and PEGIDA patriotism. As the Guardian recently wrote, Almost two-thirds of Germans, according to a poll for news magazine Spiegel by the TNS institute, believe that Angela Merkels government is not doing enough to address concerns about immigration and asylum seekers, and 34% think Germany is enduring a process of Islamisation.
Elsewhere on the Christmas-meets-violent-extremism front, dozens of people were injured last night when a man drove his van into a Christmas market in the Nantes area of France while screaming Allahu Akbar; the individual, presumably Muslim, then stabbed himself nine times before being apprehended by police. It was the third incident of its kind in as many days in the country which have been linked to Islamic terrorism, wrote the Mirror.
Nonetheless, Islamic immigration into Germany has been increased over last year, and an estimated 5.4 percent of the nations residents are now Muslim. As for this population, a 2012 poll found that 72 percent of Turks in Germany believe Islam is the only true religion. And a 2013 six-nation study that included Germany found that two-thirds of Muslims say that religious rules are more important to them than the laws of the country in which they live.
Keep on letting these animals in, Krauts....you get all you deserve for doing it!
My favorites are
Deck the Halls With Headless Corpses
And
Oh Little Bomb of Bethlehem
ROFLMAO!! That laugh will help get me started this morning. Thanks.
Outlaw Islam
Expel all Muslims
Stop all aid to Muslim lands
“Now some German politicians and religious leaders are recommending that Muslim carols be sung in some of their institutions their churches during Christmas services”
German Wishes Muslim Man Merry Christmas Muslim Pulls Knife and Stabs German in the Back
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But there aren’t any holiday songs about goat sex.
I have come to believe your way is the highway for the US to fulfill the intentions of the Founders and our Constitution. Go back to days of Jefferson to deal with Islam.
So will Islamic countries let all the Christians out of prison?
Away in a manger, no one to behead....
I suggest Islamics sing Christmas carols.
HUGE volumes of stoopid pills have to be eaten to get one to believe muslims can be pacified.
Amazing.
Madness.
The ROP is not a religion. It’s a world-domination movement cleverly disguised as a religion.
So then, it's not going to happen.
Oh Bomb All Ye Faithful.
Satan Claus is Coming to Town.
Slashing Through the Snow
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