Islamists
Attack Christmas, But Europeans Abolish It, by Tyler
Durden, 12/25/16, Submitted by Giulio Meotti via The Gatestone
Institute,
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A
statue of the Virgin Mary was ordered taken away by a court in the French
municipality of Publier. Senator Nathalie Goulet
slammed the judges as "ayatollahs of secularism".
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A German school in Turkey just
banned Christmas celebrations: the school, Istanbul Lisesi, funded by the
German government, decided that Christmas traditions and carol-singing would no
longer be allowed. A Woolworth's store in Germany scrapped Christmas
decorations telling customers that the shop "is now Muslim".
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Europe
is already mutilating her own traditions "to avoid offending
Muslims". We have become our own biggest enemy.
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Muslims are also reclaiming
"the mosque of Cordoba". Authorities in the southern Spanish city
recently dealt a blow to the Catholic Church's claim of ownership of the
cathedral. Now Islamists want it back.
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The
final result of Europe's self-destructive secularism could seriously be a
Caliphate.
"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!
In the town of Scaer, a nursing home has been the subject of a similar
secularist complaint, for the presence of a fresco of the Virgin Mary. Then, it
was the turn of the manger in the train station of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, in Aveyron. In the town of
Boissettes, the church bells have been muted by court decision.
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.
President Hollande, on the occasion
of Easter, "forgot" to express holiday wishes to
the Christians of France. But a few months before, Hollande had extended his
best wishes to the Muslims during the feast of Eid, which closes
Ramadan. "Hollande's greeting
to Muslims is opportunistic
and political. For the Socialist
Party, it is a crucial electoral clientele", said the French philosopher
Gerard Leclerc in the newspaper, Le Figaro.
This Christianophobia is the Trojan
Horse of Islam. As Charles Consigny writes in
the weekly Le Point, "Through this tabula rasa of the past, France will make a clean
sweep of its future". Unfortunately, France is not an isolated case.
Everywhere in Europe, a weary, secularist absence of purpose and confused
values damns Christianity in favor of Islam.
A jihadist terrorist, targeting a
symbol of Christian tradition, last week slaughtered 12 people at a Christmas
market in Berlin. But Europe is already mutilating her own traditions "to
avoid offending Muslims". We have become our own biggest enemy.
The annual candlelit Saint Lucia
("Sankta Lucia") procession, a Swedish Christian
tradition celebrated for hundreds of years, is "dying" out.
Uddevalla, Södertälje, Koping, Umeå, and Ystad are among the growing numbers of
cities no longer holding this lovely cultural event.
According to Jonas Engman, an
ethnologist at the Nordic Museum, the declining interest in the St. Lucia
procession accompanies a more general alienation from the culture of
Christian Sweden. A study conducted by Gallup International reveals that in
observing the Christian religion, Sweden is "the least religious in the West".
In the meantime, with a young, strong, driven sense of purpose and a set of
sharia values, Islam is growing.
A German
school in Turkey just banned Christmas
celebrations. The school, Istanbul Lisesi, funded by the German government,
decided that Christmas traditions and carol-singing would no longer be
permitted. The Washington Post summarized
the decision: "No teaching of Christmas customs, no celebrations and no
Christmas caroling". It is not an isolated incident. A Woolworth's store in Germany
also scrapped Christmas decorations, telling customers that the shop "is
now Muslim".
In Britain, David Isaac, the new head of the Equalities and
Human Rights Commission (EHRC), told employers that they should not suppress
Christian tradition out of fear of offending anyone. Previously, Dame Louise Casey, the British
government's integration "tsar", warned that "traditions such as
Christmas celebrations will die out unless people stand up for British
values".
In many Spanish towns, such as Cenicientos, the
municipality of this Autonomous Community of Madrid removed the Christian
Stations of the Cross. Then, Madrid's mayor, Manuela Carmena, decided to remove the city's
traditional Nativity display at the Puerta de Alcalá.
Authorities in the southern Spanish
city recently dealt a blow to the claim of ownership of the cathedral by the
Catholic Church. Built on the site of Saint Vincent's church, it then served as
a mosque for over 400 years when Islamic Spain was part of a caliphate, before
the Christian kingdom of Castile conquered the city and converted it again into
a church. Now Islamists want it back.
Muslims are also reclaiming
"the mosque of Cordoba". Authorities in the southern Spanish city
recently dealt a blow to the claim of ownership of the cathedral by the
Catholic Church. Built on the site of Saint Vincent's church, it then served as
a mosque for over 400 years when Islamic Spain was part of a caliphate, before
the Christian kingdom of Castile conquered the city and converted it again into
a church. (Image source: James (Jim) Gordon/Wikimedia Commons)
Belgium, the most Islamized
democracy in Europe, is also purging its Christian heritage. The Nativity, the
traditional manger scene, has not been put up in the Belgian town of Holsbeek,
just outside Brussels. Claims were scenes it was scrapped to "avoid
offending Muslims".
As reported by the newspaper La Libre, school calendars within Belgium's
French speaking community are also using a new secularized terminology: All
Saints Day (Congés de Toussaint) is now be referred to as Autumn Leave (Congé
d'automne); Christmas Vacation (Vacances de Noël) is now Winter Vacation
(Vacances d'hiver); Lenten Vacation (Congés de Carnaval) is now Rest and
Relaxation Leave (Congé de détente); and Easter (Vacances de Pâques) is now
Spring Vacation (Vacances de Printemps). Then Belgium installed an
abstract, de-Christianized Christmas tree in
the capital, Brussels.
In the Netherlands, the Christian tradition of Black Pete is
under attack and it will soon be abolished. In Italy, Catholic priests this year
canceled Christmas to "avoid offending Muslims".
The final result of Europe's
self-destructive secularism could seriously be a Caliphate, in which the fate
of its ancient and beautiful churches recapitulates those in Constantinople,
where the Hagia Sophia, for thousand years Christianity's greatest cathedral,
was recently turned into a mosque.
The muezzin's call now reverberates inside this
Christian landmark for the first time in 85 years. Islamic terrorists targeted
Christmas in Berlin, but it is the Christian secularists who are abolishing it all over
Europe.
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