Muslims Targeting Christmas in U.S.

Breitbart reports: "Pro-Palestinian Radicals Target Symbols of Christianity" observing:

    Radical pro-Palestinian demonstrations appear to have developed a new tactic: they are targeting Christmas tree lightings across the country, and other Christian symbols, in addition to symbols of Israel and Jewish institutions.

    The latest example was Friday’s protest in Los Angeles, where pro-Palestinian radicals marched from a fundraiser for President Joe Biden to an area where there are several synagogues. They sprayed anti-Israel graffiti on the walls opposite the synagogues, and also vandalized a local church.

    Prior to that, pro-Palestinian activists disrupted the Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center in New York City, clashing with police. Governor Gavin Newsom was forced to move California’s Christmas tree lighting indoors due to the threat of protests. And in Michigan, pro-Palestinian protesters tried to drown out a children’s choir at a Christmas tree lighting in Ypsilanti last month.

That is a lot of chutzpah for a group that wants us to intercede on their behalf with Israel and be treated like adults.

    It reminds me of an article from a couple months ago by Anthony Esolen entitled "Let There Be Nations; Let There be Hosts and Guests," and on the topic and the proper behavior of those seeking to immigrate to a nation. Using the example of Armenia, he argues that any immigration policy of (or toward) Armenia would require taking into consideration and respecting the Armenian people and their culture and history. Esolen then argues that such is the duty of an guest (including an immigrant) toward a host: "Hospitality," he points out, "... is a mutual thing." 

    If we assume that you are not just passing through Armenia, but that you want to take up residence in Armenia for good, then the Armenian’s willingness to welcome you in must be met with your willingness to become Armenian, insofar as you can: to learn the language, to follow the old Armenian ways, to honor the nation’s heroes, and so forth. It is what Uriah the Hittite apparently did, for the name we know him by is Hebrew, not Hittite (Hittite is an Indo-European language, as English is), and Uriah seems to have honored the ark of the covenant, saying that he would not lie with his wife Bathsheba – as David pressed him to do, because David wanted to conceal the fact that he himself had begotten a child upon Bathsheba – so long as the ark and the armies of Israel were abiding in tents.  Uriah the Hittite was then more a child of Israel than David was, as many an immigrant proves himself to belong more to the land to which he has come than do the heedless or ungrateful natives themselves.

    I am not an Armenian. I am an American. But I want there to be an Armenia – a real place, that is, a culture, which is far more than goat cheese or fancy dress for a national holiday once a year, as America is or ought to be far more than hotdogs and fireworks on the Fourth of July. It is not good for the world to be homogeneous, because homogeneity is but a monstrous way of being alone, and when you die, your place knows you no more, because you never had a truly human place to begin with – an Armenia, or an America. Let there be nations, and therefore let there be hosts and guests, and not just streams of individuals crossing a line on a map. Then we may ask, and it may mean something, what a nation’s immigration policy should be – what America’s should be.

But America is not a "nation" and there is no such thing as "the American people". At one time, but no longer because we've long had immigrants come here and spit on our traditions. That is why we must mutter "Happy Holidays" instead of of a cheerful "Merry Christmas" lest some interloper take offense. And heaven forfend that we utter anything about the birth of Christ. Even as far back as 1965, the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" special almost was cancelled because it included the character Linus reading a passage from the New Testament about Christ. 

    But that shouldn't dissuade us from deporting those that follow in the footsteps of other groups in trodding down Christianity and trampling on American traditions. If they don't like Christmas and cannot be tolerant of other religions, then send them away. They don't belong here.