Islamists Attack Christmas, but Europeans Abolish It

Gatestone Institute ^ | 25/12/16 | Giullio Meotti

[Eleutheria5]

"Everything is Christian", Jean-Paul Sartre wrote after the war. Two thousand years of Christianity have left a deep mark on the French language, landscape and culture. But not according to France's Minister of Education, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. She just announced that instead of saying "Merry Christmas", state officials should use "Happy Holidays" -- clearly a deliberate intent to erase from discourse and the public space any reference to the Christian culture in which France is rooted.

Jean-François Chemain called it the "eradication of any Christian sign in the public landscape". A year ago, the controversy was ignited in the French town of Ploermel, where a court decided that the statue of Pope John Paul II, erected in a square, had to be removed for violating "secularism".

Then, a statue of the Virgin Mary was ordered taken away by a court in the municipality of Publier. Senator Nathalie Goulet slammed the judges as "ayatollahs of secularism".

The newspapers of the French "left", outraged by the "right's" ban on burkinis on the French Riviera, have been endorsing this anti-Christian policy.

France's Council of State has just ruled that "the temporary installation of cribs [nativity scenes] in a public place is legal if it has a cultural, artistic or festive value, but not if it expresses the recognition of a cult or a religious preference". What precautions to justify a millenary tradition!

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Fortunately, some ideas from the Observatory of Secularism -- the organ established by President François Hollande to coordinate his neo-secularist policies -- have not been implemented. One proposed even to eliminate some Christian national holidays to make room for the Islamic, Jewish and secular holidays.

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[Eleutheria5]

"One proposed even to eliminate some Christian national holidays to make room for the Islamic, Jewish and secular holidays."

Oh, you shouldn't. Really. You should not.

[ronnie raygun]

Lets see...............we are dying from cancer so lets get some more cancer. The mentally ill are alive and well and killing themselves before our very eyes

[Eleutheria5]

Taking everyone else down with them, though.

[HomerBohn]

Najat. A commie muslim.

[PGalt]

Enemies foreign, enemies domestic. How close to you are enemies in your world? Have your space invaders been properly vetted?

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[Eleutheria5]

Is she mentioned in the article?

[Eleutheria5]

My bad. First paragraph, no less.

[onedoug]

The Islamic Caliphate of France

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Pogo (Walt Kelly’s cartoon character) said it best ,” We have met the enemy and he is us”.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Rapid as is the Islamic advznce, it has never been as rapid as the Christian retreat.