Muslims celebrating Christmas

Ultimate Seduction

Princeton Immense Broccoli wrote: »

At least Muslims belive Jesus to be one of the great prophets. There are many people in Ireland celebrating Christmas, who have no belief in Jesus at all.

It was the "Merry Christmas" that I thought was a nice touch too. Not the PC "happy holidays"

XsApollo

I have Muslim neighbours next door with kids.
And we always exchange Christmas presents and Easter eggs at Easter with each other.

Rhea Rich Hobo

Rhea Rich Hobo wrote: »

Have you been to Malmo?.

I've a friend living there, he's an Israeli Jew. He's married to a Swedish Jew and raising their children in a Jewish home, he's perfectly happy to stay living in Malmo for some reason.

But I get what you're saying too, and your attempt at a wind up.

I'm not sure if I'd walk down Luton or Bradford either, but sure there's arseholes and extremists everywhere.

Yeah, I'd bet you'd see less abuse in Malmo than in Boards.ie

Collie D

XsApollo wrote: »

I have Muslim neighbours next door with kids.
And we always exchange Christmas presents and Easter eggs at Easter with each other.

Most of my neighbours are presumably baptised into the Catholic faith like myself. And I wouldn't give half of them the steam off my piss

ebbsy

The Donald has a different take on the ould Muslims.

Skylinehead

Princeton Immense Broccoli wrote: »

At least Muslims belive Jesus to be one of the great prophets. There are many people in Ireland celebrating Christmas, who have no belief in Jesus at all.

So what? There's a lot of Christians celebrating the wrong day, if that's where you're going.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Skylinehead wrote: »

So what? There's a lot of Christians celebrating the wrong day, if that's where you're going.

I'm no going anywhere, relax.
The point being that there's as much, if not more, reason for Muslims in this country to mark Christmas as the many people who have no religious belief at all. That's all.

david75

Coming over here just blending in not imposing sharia and just being generally sound! How dare them sound cvnts do that.

Skylinehead

Princeton Immense Broccoli wrote: »

I'm no going anywhere, relax.
The point being that there's as much, if not more, reason for Muslims in this country to mark Christmas as the many people who have no religious belief at all. That's all.

Fair enough, I took the "at least" in the wrong context. Apologies.

Don Kiddick

Princeton Immense Broccoli wrote: »

At least Muslims belive Jesus to be one of the great prophets. There are many people in Ireland celebrating Christmas, who have no belief in Jesus at all.

Yes....some of them would be Muslims .........

Just because you are baptised it doesn't mean you believe in Jesus...and just because you're born into the Muslim faith, it also doesn't mean you believe

Gerrup Outta Dat!

Gerrup Outta Dat! wrote: »

Christians celebrating Christmas Yule is a bit hypocritical too. It’s a hijacked pagan festival after all.

Asking a non-Christian why they celebrate Christmas is like asking someone why they have sex when they don’t want to have kids.

Exactly, it's a festival to celebrate the passing of the shortest day of the year, I'll drink to that!

Ultimate Seduction

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

My point is fair play to them for making an effort at integration. Giving all the ****e going on over the last few years people would have you believe that they hate us and our way of life. Behead the infidels ect. Fair play to them.

Nothing to do with integration, it's business after all.
If they were in a town that had a large muslim population and almost all their customers were also muslim , there's no way they'd have the christmas stuff up.

Zebra3

Non-Christians shouldn’t be celebrating chrimbo tbh. Giving credence to their nonsense.

Collie D

Zebra3 wrote: »

Non-Christians shouldn’t be celebrating chrimbo tbh. Giving credence to their nonsense.

Whose nonsense exactly?

The Backwards Man

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Nothing to do with integration, it's business after all.
If they were in a town that had a large muslim population and almost all their customers were also muslim , there's no way they'd have the christmas stuff up.

And why would they?

As my Granda used to say, you don't bring turnips to a cattle Mart.

coffee_cake

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

It was the "Merry Christmas" that I thought was a nice touch too. Not the PC "happy holidays"

new years is a holiday too

eurasian

I was once suprised that many people are not aware that Muslims love and respect Jesus and his mother Mary (Isa and Maryam).
Muslim lads in the shop wearing Christmas outfits don't do that for religious resons thought. It's just a clothes.

Noel82

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-mobilizes-100000-security-personnel-for-the-holidays/2017/12/24/a1d1c296-e87f-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html?utm_term=.37c5cdbd472f

Seasons greetings

Don Kiddick

Noel82 wrote: »

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/france-mobilizes-100000-security-personnel-for-the-holidays/2017/12/24/a1d1c296-e87f-11e7-927a-e72eac1e73b6_story.html?utm_term=.37c5cdbd472f

Seasons greetings

Ah just what I need...I'm going there early in Jan...and I was in Paris the night of the attacks...I'm bad luck

Jobs OXO

Not sure if this should be encouraged. Might cause enragements.

quintana76

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Yes Muslims are just normal people mainly

Normal people yes. Normal religion no.

Donald Trump

The Backwards Man wrote: »

As my Granda used to say, you don't bring turnips to a cattle Mart.

Ah yeah, but sure your Granda was mental.

He was obsessed with bringing his favourite turnip everywhere with him when he was a child til his own mother tried to stop him by telling him that saying and he just repeated ad nauseum over and over like Rain Main for the next 60 years.

The Discombobulated Man he was known as

Captain Obvious

quintana76 wrote: »

Normal people yes. Normal religion no.

What's so abnormal about the religion?

BowSideChamp

Captain Obvious wrote: »

What's so abnormal about the religion?

Stonings, multiple wives, throwing homosexuals off buildings, no bacon etc.

silverharp

remember in scotland a year or 2 back a muslim shop owner was murdered by another muslim for pretty much the same thing.

Buford T. Justice XIX

quintana76 wrote: »

Normal people yes. Normal religion no.

Just like Christianity, there are many different beliefs in Islam and many different levels of belief in each as well.

Just because one particular strand is extreme doesn't mean they all use that strand as their baseline for normality.

Captain Obvious

BowSideChamp wrote: »

Stonings, multiple wives, throwing homosexuals off buildings, no bacon etc.

You obviously don't know much about other religions. It seems pretty standard as a religion.

suicide_circus

Captain Obvious wrote: »

You obviously don't know much about other religions. It seems pretty standard as a religion.

When your Massiah is a warlord you're off to a bad start.

The_Valeyard

Zebra3 wrote: »

Non-Christians shouldn’t be celebrating chrimbo tbh. Giving credence to their nonsense.

Boooooooooooooooooo


Get out of here Grinch.

Take your self professed Atheism to AA, its Christmas for the rest of us.

AlekSmart

Captain Obvious wrote: »

You obviously don't know much about other religions. It seems pretty standard as a religion.

Perhaps,if you were living amongst these "other religions" in far off backward,tribal or recidivist locations,then you could accept some of this stuff as "pretty standard".

However,we do not live thus.

We are,for all of our failings,living in a strongly democratic State,amongst a collection of like minded States,in which their populations enjoy the widest spread of Social,Religious and Individual freedoms,a great many of which strike at the very core of what belivers in traditional Islam support.

There can be nothing "standard" about a male dominated religion imposing requirements upon women to cover themselves up,in order to allow for the predilictions of their own menfolk,particularly as we as a society have only so recently managed to tear down a set of the same crazy impositions associated with our,now shattered religious beliefs.

Or,is it that we should embrace wild-eyed lunacy such as this in our haste to be "inclusive"...?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/09/tanveer-ahmed-jailed-for-murder-glasgow-shopkeeper-in-sectarian-attack

Ahmed, 32, a Sunni Muslim, confessed to confronting and then attacking Shah because the newsagent was an open adherent of the Ahmadi branch of Islam, which believes the prophet Muhammad was not the final Muslim prophet.

As he was led from the dock on Tuesday, Ahmed raised a clenched fist and shouted in Arabic: “Praise for the Prophet Muhammad, there is only one Prophet.” His cry was repeated by some supporters in the public gallery.

No remorse,no recognition of humanity,just a total belief in his right to lay waste to those with whom he does'nt agree...even if from his own Religion.

Sorry,but i'm not buying any of this as "pretty standard",especially when it centres on Religious Belief.....

Arriving at the shop on 24 March, he ordered Shah to stop describing himself as a prophet, warned he would kill him and began plunging a knife into Shah. As Shah’s brother and a shop assistant struggled to prevent the attack, Ahmed dragged Shah outside onto the pavement, stabbing, punching and stamping on him, shattering bones in his face.