Posted on 12/25/2016 3:28:27 AM PST by Cronos
Kamin Mohammadi: My first Christmas in Britain was in 1979. I was nine. London was more monochrome then than it is now but, suddenly, unexpectedly, in December, it decked itself out in lights and sparkled with the magic of Christmas. People sang in the streets and smiled at strangers, a different place from the reserved city in which we had arrived only six months before, having fled the revolution in Iran.
...my parents decided that it would be nice for us kids to celebrate Christmas, despite not being Christian.
..The years passed, things didn’t blow over in Iran and we stayed in London. Now, once a year, I, too, sing in the streets and smile at strangers.
Anita Sethi : I – a brown girl, who had not long before lit sparklers to celebrate Diwali, the Hindu festival of light – now waiting for Santa, after helping my mother to decorate the tree with stars, baubles and a crowning angel? Some stories are of such force in the imagination that they cut through religion, race and class, achieving universality
Christmas was ubiquitous, so it was difficult not to partake: at school, carols were sung, the nativity play acted, Advent calendars opened. But friendships were also forged across cultural divides throughout the year, so I have memories of attending friends’ barmitzvahs, for example.
..These days, I am not religious, though my extended family has many religions in it. My brother’s wife is Muslim, so my nieces, Asha and Layla, and nephew Hari celebrate Eid, too, to add to the array of annual festivities. On Christmas Eve, my nieces will also lay out a mince pie, carrot and glass of milk for Santa and his reindeers, and write him a letter.
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A carrot?
“A carrot?”
For the Reindeer
I suspect for the reindeer....hmmmm...what’s up doc? Assuming this is even true, and no one is murdered (honor killing) for apostasy against the true religion of peace, an attempt to co-exist or some such blather.
I suspect for the reindeer....hmmmm...what’s up doc? Assuming this is even true, and no one is murdered (honor killing) for apostasy against the true religion of peace, an attempt to co-exist or some such blather.
What else would you feed the reindeer?
Ah..the reideer.
What a stupid story.
The only reason to write it is to suggest that some Muslims are not women abusing ...head chopping maniacs?
I mean we all have family members with different beliefs and no one dies.
Usually.
................and now they all smile and sing whilst dreaming about chopping our necks—and all the sugarplums and mistletoe.
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