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2016 War on Christmas

War on Christmas | TheBlaze.com

Here is this year’s provocative ‘war on Christmas’ billboard

I was wondering when we would have the first "War on Christmas" post for this year.

From t3h Blaze too. They are experts at rw dog whistle journalism

 

[American_Jihad]

2016 War on Christmas

War on Christmas | TheBlaze.com

Here is this year’s provocative ‘war on Christmas’ billboard

I was wondering when we would have the first "War on Christmas" post for this year.

From t3h Blaze too. They are experts at rw dog whistle journalism

We feel for you guys

Progressive Cognitive Disorder

 

[American_Jihad]

D.C. Refuses to Arm Persecuted Christians Fighting ISIS
To still not know which “side” U.S. leadership is on is to be beyond naïve.
November 18, 2015
Raymond Ibrahim

In recent months, Mideast Christians have been forming militias to fight the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in both Iraq and Syria—even as the Obama administration, which arms the “opposition,” refuses to arm them.

In Iraq, some of the few remaining Assyrian Christians have formed militias under the name Dwekh Nawsha (literally meaning “self-sacrifice” in Christ’s native tongue of Aramaic). Most of these fighters are from among those Christians displaced from the Ninevah Plain due to the atrocities committed by IS and are on the frontlines fighting the jihadis.

They were formed soon after the U.S.-supported Kurdish Peshmerga, who are leading the fight against IS in the region, retreated from many Christian villages without a fight last summer, declining to protect them from the IS advance which led to the usual atrocities.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, “Christians have taken up arms because they want to protect their own land, and many no longer trust the Kurds to do it for them.” Indeed, the Kurds, including the Peshmerga, have been known to abuse and even persecute Christians. Like IS, Kurds are Sunni Muslims too.

“We will stay here, and Christians will protect Christians. Not Arabs or Kurds protecting us, but Christians,” said local commander Fouad Masaoud Gorgees.

In neighboring Syria, approximately 500 Syriac Christian fighters recently assembled and managed to prevent the Islamic State from entering the ancient Christian settlement of Sadad. But on October 30, IS captured a town less than five miles away, leaving Sadad vulnerable to continued assaults.

Even the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox church, Ignatius Aphrem II, traveled to Sadad to boost the morale of Christian defenders. Said Aphrem:

It was emotional but it was also very encouraging to see our young people determined to defend their land and stay in their homeland. To see them ready to fight and to sacrifice for their land, I think that’s what’s very meaningful, that made me very proud of them.

There’s a reason why Christians are frantically trying to save Sadad from the clutches of IS. As one Syriac Christian fighter put it, Sadad “is a symbolic place for us and we will not allow it to fall again.”

He is referring to the events of October 2013, when the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army—widely touted as moderate but in fact working with al-Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front—captured the town. They made a graphic video (with English subtitles) of those whom they killed, the “dogs of Assad”—“dog” being an ancient Islamic epithet for Christians—while shouting Islam’s victory-cry, “Allahu Akbar” (which John McCain equates to a Christian saying “thank God”) and praise for the Free Syrian Army.

During their one week occupation of Sadad, the moderate/radical coalition tortured, raped, and murdered 45 Christians; the bodies of six people from one family alone, ranging from ages 16 to 90, were found at the bottom of a well (an increasingly common fate for “subhuman” Christians).

At the time, Syriac Archbishop Selwanos Boutros called it Syria’s “largest massacre of Christians.” Even so, this massacre was wholly ignored by the Obama administration and so-called mainstream media in an effort to maintain the narrative that the Free Syrian Army was “moderate.”

Concerning the Sadad massacres, the archbishop had asked in 2013:

We have shouted aid to the world but no one has listened to us. Where is the Christian conscience? Where is human consciousness? Where are my brothers?

...

In light of all this, to still fail to understand which “side” U.S. leadership is on—they currently claim to be on the side of “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights”—is to be beyond naïve.

D.C. Refuses to Arm Persecuted Christians Fighting ISIS

 

[bodecea]

D.C. Refuses to Arm Persecuted Christians Fighting ISIS
To still not know which “side” U.S. leadership is on is to be beyond naïve.
November 18, 2015
Raymond Ibrahim

In recent months, Mideast Christians have been forming militias to fight the Islamic State (IS) and other jihadi groups in both Iraq and Syria—even as the Obama administration, which arms the “opposition,” refuses to arm them.

In Iraq, some of the few remaining Assyrian Christians have formed militias under the name Dwekh Nawsha (literally meaning “self-sacrifice” in Christ’s native tongue of Aramaic). Most of these fighters are from among those Christians displaced from the Ninevah Plain due to the atrocities committed by IS and are on the frontlines fighting the jihadis.

They were formed soon after the U.S.-supported Kurdish Peshmerga, who are leading the fight against IS in the region, retreated from many Christian villages without a fight last summer, declining to protect them from the IS advance which led to the usual atrocities.

According to the Christian Science Monitor, “Christians have taken up arms because they want to protect their own land, and many no longer trust the Kurds to do it for them.” Indeed, the Kurds, including the Peshmerga, have been known to abuse and even persecute Christians. Like IS, Kurds are Sunni Muslims too.

“We will stay here, and Christians will protect Christians. Not Arabs or Kurds protecting us, but Christians,” said local commander Fouad Masaoud Gorgees.

In neighboring Syria, approximately 500 Syriac Christian fighters recently assembled and managed to prevent the Islamic State from entering the ancient Christian settlement of Sadad. But on October 30, IS captured a town less than five miles away, leaving Sadad vulnerable to continued assaults.

Even the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox church, Ignatius Aphrem II, traveled to Sadad to boost the morale of Christian defenders. Said Aphrem:

It was emotional but it was also very encouraging to see our young people determined to defend their land and stay in their homeland. To see them ready to fight and to sacrifice for their land, I think that’s what’s very meaningful, that made me very proud of them.

There’s a reason why Christians are frantically trying to save Sadad from the clutches of IS. As one Syriac Christian fighter put it, Sadad “is a symbolic place for us and we will not allow it to fall again.”

He is referring to the events of October 2013, when the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army—widely touted as moderate but in fact working with al-Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front—captured the town. They made a graphic video (with English subtitles) of those whom they killed, the “dogs of Assad”—“dog” being an ancient Islamic epithet for Christians—while shouting Islam’s victory-cry, “Allahu Akbar” (which John McCain equates to a Christian saying “thank God”) and praise for the Free Syrian Army.

During their one week occupation of Sadad, the moderate/radical coalition tortured, raped, and murdered 45 Christians; the bodies of six people from one family alone, ranging from ages 16 to 90, were found at the bottom of a well (an increasingly common fate for “subhuman” Christians).

At the time, Syriac Archbishop Selwanos Boutros called it Syria’s “largest massacre of Christians.” Even so, this massacre was wholly ignored by the Obama administration and so-called mainstream media in an effort to maintain the narrative that the Free Syrian Army was “moderate.”

Concerning the Sadad massacres, the archbishop had asked in 2013:

We have shouted aid to the world but no one has listened to us. Where is the Christian conscience? Where is human consciousness? Where are my brothers?

...

In light of all this, to still fail to understand which “side” U.S. leadership is on—they currently claim to be on the side of “democracy,” “freedom,” and “human rights”—is to be beyond naïve.

D.C. Refuses to Arm Persecuted Christians Fighting ISIS

So.....NOW the U.S. can easily tell the difference between the good guys (christians) and the bad guys (ISIS)? Then allowing good guy refugees into the United States should be no problem, right?

 

[kiwiman127]

I always chuckle when it's the same folks who scream about "the War on Christians/Christmas are the same folks who scream the Pope is a commie/socialist. They just hate it when the Pope's message mirrors the Bible because it goes against their ideology. Therefore, they hold their ideology as being more important than their alleged Christainity .

 

[boilermaker55]

Damn straight. Rather than follow the teachings of their savior, they want to make up rules as the move along.

I always chuckle when it's the same folks who scream about "the War on Christians/Christmas are the same folks who scream the Pope is a commie/socialist. They just hate it when the Pope's message mirrors the Bible because it goes against their ideology. Therefore, they hold their ideology as being more important than their alleged Christainity .

 

[American_Jihad]

Becker: America’s Public Schools - Exalting Islam, Banning Christmas
The piety reserved for constitutional transcendence apparently extends only to restricting Christian expression in public schools.
12.11.2015
Commentary
Truth Revolt

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Atheist activists and the Democrat-appointed liberal judges who empower them (or is it the other way around?) have seen to it that their interpretation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause (“Congress shall make no law … respecting an establishment of religion….”) will be strictly enforced in our nation’s public schools. It took Judge Jon E. Deguilio, an Obama appointee, 16 lumbering pages filled with the kind of tortured insight only a progressive lexicologist might enjoy to conclude that “a reasonable observer would fairly believe that the portrayal of the living nativity scene, when viewed in the particular context, circumstances, and history of the Christmas Spectacular, conveys a message of endorsement of religion, or that a particular religious belief is favored or preferred.”

This is what it has come to. Really.

But the piety reserved for constitutional transcendence apparently extends only to restricting Christian expression in public schools. For decades – yes, decades – Islamic religious dogma and practices have been part of public school curricula nationwide. In 2003, parents in Northern California sued over a middle school world history program featuring a series of role–playing activities (“simulations”) in which students were required to “become a Muslim” for three weeks. They were told to choose a Muslim name, recite Islamic prayers (including the Shahada, a Muslim’s profession of faith in Allah and acknowledgement of Muhammed as his prophet), participate in imaginary pilgrimages to Mecca, perform ritual fasting during lunch to simulate fasting Muslims carry out during their “holy month” of Ramadan, dress in Muslim robes and recite Arabic phrases meaning “God is great.” (The case was Eklund v. Byron Union Sch. Dist.)

The parents expressed additional concern over a trivia card game in which students were taught to affirm that Allah is the one true God, that Muhammad is his prophet, and that the “Holy Qu'ran” is God's third revelation as revealed to Prophet Muhammad through the Archangel Gabriel. There’s more, but you get the picture. Under the test employed by Judge Delguilio in the Nativity case, these facts should have been more than sufficient to find an Establishment Clause violation and end the instruction. Had the tables been turned, no court would have allowed schools to teach children to recite the Lord’s prayer or take communion. That has been the law of the land at least since the Supreme Court banned school prayer in Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. Schempp (1963).

But through the fractured prism of progressive thinking, one plus one doesn’t always equal two, and a San Francisco federal judge dismissed the case. Affirming the judgment, the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals didn’t even bother to perform a legal analysis, concluding perfunctorily that “[t]he Islam program activities were not ‘“overt religious exercises” that raise Establishment Clause concerns.’” The Court ordered its opinion not to be published, so it can’t be cited as binding precedent, which may explain why the U.S Supreme Court turned down an appeal.

A decade would pass before other parents would take notice of what their children were being taught. Just last month, a Huntington Beach mother was shocked to discover a poem her seventh grade son brought home from school promoting the spread of Islam through violence: “This is their fight song/Spread Islam now song/Prove that they’re right song … And they don’t really care/If no Jews or C[hristians]’ believe….” The school district apologized for the teacher’s use of such “supplemental materials,” materials a teacher is not required to use, but the incident exposed only the tip of an enormous propaganda iceberg concealed from parents and the larger public.

Indeed, the scope of educational tools being used to aggrandize, and even glamourize, Islam – or what is more widely, and broadly, described in school curricula as the “Islamic Civilization,” – is not limited to the “supplemental materials” teachers are recklessly using. Various studies surveying history, social studies and other textbooks adopted for use have found, as one summarizes it, a “pattern of historical revisionism, omission, and bias in the presentation of all aspects devoted to Islam.” Common Core Standards all but ensure that students will be taught the “approved” version of Islam educators desire. And there is no credible program that educates teachers regarding how to teach about religion without crossing the line into teaching religious dogma.

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Becker: America’s Public Schools - Exalting Islam, Banning Christmas

 

[Campbell]

A so-called war on Christianity does not mean a war on Christmas. I celebrate a traditional Christmas, but I think Christianity sucks.

BTW, you NaziCon retards seem to be giving crazy Beck a lot of press lately. Does he need some Christmas money or is he promoting a new book?

They thump those bibles and don't pay one little bit of attention to what's in them. That story about Lazrus should make any person with money shiver in the spine.

 

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remember this from last year

 

[BlueGin]

Anyone notice the big ol signs out front of Starbucks stating they will be open and making their employees work on Christmas Day?

Gotta love those money grubbing libs.

 

[American_Jihad]

The Stakes in the War on Christmas
Why America must not make a Faustian bargain.
December 18, 2015
Bruce Thornton

The annual war on Christmas began early this year. A week after Halloween, Starbucks unveiled its seasonal cup design, which left off traditional holiday motifs like reindeer and snowmen, opting instead for a plain red cup with the Starbucks logo. Within days, an irate individual posted on Facebook, “Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus.” He also claimed Starbucks forbids employees from saying “Merry Christmas.” Donald Trump, on the stump in Illinois, reacted by calling for a boycott of Starbucks and suggesting he wouldn’t renew the company’s lease on a store in Trump Towers. Trump also promised that if he became president, “We’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you.”

Within a week of being posted, the Facebook comment was viewed over 11 million times, and shared half a million. In response, the liberal Daily Kos called the complaint a “right-wing freakout” by a “deeply insane Christian person.”

The whole affair suggests that the Christmas wars are now as much a part of the season as caroling and shopping. Schools proscribing Christmas parties, store clerks shying away from greeting customers with a “Merry Christmas,” and municipalities forbidding crèches on public property seem to millions of American Christians—who form 71% of the population—to be attacks on their most cherished holiday, and another secular assault on their religious beliefs by a minority of atheists, agnostics, and followers of faiths other than Christianity. And though not much of Christian theology remains in a holiday that is more about consumption and leisure than the birth of Christ, the attacks on Christmas do reflect an evangelical secularism that aims to drive Christianity from the public square.

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The war on Christmas is really a war on religion. What is at stake in that war is whether the goods we live by and cherish––the dignity of the individual, tolerance, freedom, and respect for life––will survive, or whether they will succumb to the materialist logic that makes each of our unique selves nothing but chemicals, without freedom or dignity or transcendent worth, someday to be swept away by chance or force. Such ideas that turn humans into material things have been the precondition for the worst horrors humans have inflicted on one another. An occasional public reminder that we are something more than mere flesh and bone, capable of self-sacrifice and unconditional love, is not too much to ask from a free society that in its Constitution formally guarantees the right to religious freedom.

The Stakes in the War on Christmas

 

[boilermaker55]

You and your gripping about this is about as ridiculous as it can get.

The Stakes in the War on Christmas
Why America must not make a Faustian bargain.
December 18, 2015
Bruce Thornton

The annual war on Christmas began early this year. A week after Halloween, Starbucks unveiled its seasonal cup design, which left off traditional holiday motifs like reindeer and snowmen, opting instead for a plain red cup with the Starbucks logo. Within days, an irate individual posted on Facebook, “Starbucks REMOVED CHRISTMAS from their cups because they hate Jesus.” He also claimed Starbucks forbids employees from saying “Merry Christmas.” Donald Trump, on the stump in Illinois, reacted by calling for a boycott of Starbucks and suggesting he wouldn’t renew the company’s lease on a store in Trump Towers. Trump also promised that if he became president, “We’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you.”

Within a week of being posted, the Facebook comment was viewed over 11 million times, and shared half a million. In response, the liberal Daily Kos called the complaint a “right-wing freakout” by a “deeply insane Christian person.”

The whole affair suggests that the Christmas wars are now as much a part of the season as caroling and shopping. Schools proscribing Christmas parties, store clerks shying away from greeting customers with a “Merry Christmas,” and municipalities forbidding crèches on public property seem to millions of American Christians—who form 71% of the population—to be attacks on their most cherished holiday, and another secular assault on their religious beliefs by a minority of atheists, agnostics, and followers of faiths other than Christianity. And though not much of Christian theology remains in a holiday that is more about consumption and leisure than the birth of Christ, the attacks on Christmas do reflect an evangelical secularism that aims to drive Christianity from the public square.

...

The war on Christmas is really a war on religion. What is at stake in that war is whether the goods we live by and cherish––the dignity of the individual, tolerance, freedom, and respect for life––will survive, or whether they will succumb to the materialist logic that makes each of our unique selves nothing but chemicals, without freedom or dignity or transcendent worth, someday to be swept away by chance or force. Such ideas that turn humans into material things have been the precondition for the worst horrors humans have inflicted on one another. An occasional public reminder that we are something more than mere flesh and bone, capable of self-sacrifice and unconditional love, is not too much to ask from a free society that in its Constitution formally guarantees the right to religious freedom.

The Stakes in the War on Christmas

 

[Baron]

If you moke Hanuka you are an antisemit.No-no!
If you laugh about Quran you are bigot and Nazi.
If you p..s on Christmas and Christianity you are a progressive good guy. It's something wrong here.

 

[hazlnut]

Progressive Christmas: attacking God, Jesus & the cross:

11/29/12

The progressive war on Christmas - and Christianity in general - continues to rage on. The latest example comes from a small town in Kansas that found itself smack dab in the middle of a battle with progressives who were oh-so offended that a cross was on public property! Hear the oblivious local news report and get Glenn’s reaction on radio today.


Kansas town flirts with “progress” and loses traditional values

There is a sign in the town of Buhler, Kansas causing controversy in the news this week. The sign in the small town, described as a town rooted in “small town values”, featured a large cross, representative of much of the towns values. The sign is now being changed following a law suit from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF).

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Glenn was referring to the slogan on the sign that on one version reads: “Our second century of progress,” and on another says, “Tradional Values. Progressive Ideas.”

Glenn pointed out that the town is ironically up in arms over a group wanting to remove the cross from the public sign — they don’t understand why.

Well, because it’s a progress organization and they’re pushing their “progressive ideas”.

“You’re eventually going to lose the cross in your seal if your seal has “progressive ideas” in it,” Glenn quipped. “No doubt about it.”

Glenn continued to point out the irony in the situation noting that the communities solution is to move the sign to private property.

“What is the progressive idea? The elimination of private property,” he said. “If you continue with these progressive ideals and ideas, you will lose your private property. Which means you have no place to have your point of view. None.”

The situation with this town’s sign is a great example of what progressivism does to traditional values, Glenn pointed out. The sign mixed the church with progressivism from the get-go.

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Kansas town flirts with “progress” and loses traditional values – Glenn Beck

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

If you moke Hanuka you are an antisemit.No-no!
If you laugh about Quran you are bigot and Nazi.
If you p..s on Christmas and Christianity you are a progressive good guy. It's something wrong here.

Yes, your lack of sound reasoning.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Anyone notice the big ol signs out front of Starbucks stating they will be open and making their employees work on Christmas Day?

Gotta love those money grubbing libs.

This is as stupid as it is ignorant and wrong – Starbucks has nothing to do with 'libs.'

 

[Baron]

If you moke Hanuka you are an antisemit.No-no!
If you laugh about Quran you are bigot and Nazi.
If you p..s on Christmas and Christianity you are a progressive good guy. It's something wrong here.

Yes, your lack of sound reasoning.

My reasoning is easy:

The US was founded as a christian country of european immigrants and shall stay it.The immigration Act of 1965 must be abolished, the same is about diversity programs ( white genocide ) , affirmative actions etc. An Christianity shall stay the leading religion here.

 

[konradv]

Anyone notice the big ol signs out front of Starbucks stating they will be open and making their employees work on Christmas Day? Gotta love those money grubbing libs.

If they didn't, where would Rabbi get his coffee?

 

[BlueGin]

Anyone notice the big ol signs out front of Starbucks stating they will be open and making their employees work on Christmas Day?

Gotta love those money grubbing libs.

This is as stupid as it is ignorant and wrong – Starbucks has nothing to do with 'libs.'

They are run by libs.