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"I'm afraid Jews are the source of the assault on Christmas and Christian symbols. The average Muslim isn't much bothered by them because they assume that the US is a Christian country (although they'd like to convert it to a Muslim one). Jews believe it is a secular one. The Jewish position appears to be that it's acceptable to have a Jewish country, but not a Christian one."

There is no 'Jewish position.' You think all us Jews get together in a room and hammer out a position we can all agree on, and thus it becomes 'the Jewish position'? How ignorant. Plenty of Jews are comfortable with a religious presence in public life. Moreover, if you define 'Christian country' as that which has Christianity as a state religion, there are dozens of those.

Thank you for your post. I have never heard of a religous Jew having a problem with religous displays. I even have several friends who are Jewish that are on my Christmas present list. I'm on their list of people that they celebrate haunakah with.