Christians and Muslims: Will the 25 Days of Christmas Be More Peaceful Than the 30 Days of Ramadan?
But the most telling difference, I think, comes when we compare the two "holiest" times of the two religions. Coming up soon for the Christian world is Christmas, a time when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Admittedly, we're pretty bad at chronology, not only did we blow the year he was born (specifically 4 B.C. rather than 1 A.D.) we also are about 9 months off on Jesus's birthday. Be that as it may however, the point is not celebrating a specific date of birth, but the entire process, we're celebrating that he was born - and Constantine decided that the time when Pagans celebrated Winter Solstice would be as good a time as any.
I'm not really interested, at this point, in arguing secular vs. Christian views on Christmas - I have no qualms with the consumerism and the advent of purchasing gifts for your children even if you believe Jesus was just some Jew that got crucified in 30 A.D., or if you're even stranger and believe he didn't exist at all. What I'm interested in is comparing how Christians will respond to the holiest time on the Christian calendar compared to Muslims.
We already saw how they stack up against Jews - during the 10 day overlap between Yom Kippur and Ramadan, they tallied in 397 kills of innocent men, women, and children.
While secularists and atheists in the United States, however, tout how "oppressive" Christianity is at trying to force Christ on a Christian holiday, one can easily take a simple glance once more on what it's like to refuse to acknowledge the holiness of Islamic Ramadan. Where in the United States you have every right to just lay around, watch a DVD of Ernest Goes to Camp, and drink or eat or do really whatever you like, Fatah, the moderate Palestinian terrorist faction, attempted to appeal to its hardliners by swooping through the West Bank and arresting, beating, or killing those who were not appropriately respecting the holiday.
Therefore I lay down this challenge.
I will happily bet that during the 25 Days of Christmas, Christians will not match the Muslim bomb-a-thon that was Ramadan, and in fact it will most likely be a time of peace, heavy spending, solidarity, turkey, and eggnog.
I would challenge that Christian terrorists will simply be unable to catch up to, in their 25 Days of Christmas, the amount of carnage and bloodshed that was unleashed during the Muslim holy month. Of course, because I predict terrorism is going to be defined as dropping a bomb on insurgents and hitting one of their human shields, this is how terrorism will be defined, the same way I define Islamic terrorism:
Attacks on targets of no military value by non-state affiliated forces with the intent to do harm on non-combatants or for the simple sake of inducing violence with the sole intent of acting on behalf of religion.
So, in the words of Emperor Josef II of Austria, there it is.
Will the 25 Days of Christmas be as bloody as the 30 days of Ramadan? We'll have to wait and see.
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Post a CommentThis writer has dozens of anti Palestianin articles and many Pro Israeli articles that praise and relish the violence and killings done by Jews.
His Middel East Fact or Fiction pieces come straight from the Israeli Ministry of Propaganda!
He has a hatred for Islam & Muslims!
This hatred of his justifies the Crusades & the Inquisition & Wars committed by Jews & westerners against Muslims.
It is such hatred that blinds him & stupifies him to say absurd things like:
Palestine never existed
Jerusalem only belongs to Jews & Christians
Prophet Muhammad never existed
Palestinians and Arabs Had Nothing to Do With the Holocaust - False
There was no "The Inquisition."
The Inquisition never killed anybody
Read the following articles to see the depths of depravity that this sick this writer gets to:
Truth Behind the Spanish Inquisition
Spanish Inquisition's "Professionalism" Sets it Apart
Reconquista - Spain's Assertion for Independence
10 Things You Never Knew About the
Raph, I haven't TRIED to spin the Iraqi insurgency as islamic terror, that's why I haven't succeeded. I've pointed out on multiple occasions here that the terror that is referred to in this article is global, has NOTHING to do with Iraq, has EVERYTHING to do with Islam, yet you keep going, unphased... in your own little moveon.world, because.. you are not paying attention, you are not engaging in conversation, you are doing nothing but being an Internet version of Pavlov's dog. Read, absorb, discuss things, don't scan for keywords, then respond with links both of which are irrelevant to the discussion at hand. Also, in case you're completely in the dark, Zawahiri being a "doctor" doesn't prevent him from being an Islamic scholar.
Though I like that you equate militants with civilians, that's mildly awesome.
You'll have a hard time convincing me that "The Islamic Army of Iraq" is not in any way affiliated with religion. Same with the Islamic State of Iraq. And the fact that they call them Martyrdom Missions, and every attack is carried out with calls of Allahu Akbar. I have a quote for you. "You lose, General." -General Grievous
@Rallos Zek: No. You have failed to spin the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan as a religious mission. If you include the US army in Chadds "challenge", I'm afraid, that you'll loose by far. I reckon 3000 dead Iraqis plus 300 dead Afghans (80 got killed in an air raid on Monday).
Al-Zawahiri is a surgeon, not an Islamic cleric.
Thing is Raph, you have *completely* failed at your goals here. First you failed to establish the United States Armed Forces as a "Christian Entity", and second, you failed in making any form of contrast between terrorist attacks during Ramadan and Christmas. Incidentally, I'm willing to be that even IF you included the US army, that there will be less killings during the Christmas season, than Islamic terrorists during Ramadan.
Al-Zawahiri comes to mind
@Hirohiigo "quite a few Islamists"? OBL is a religious authority of a world religion with 1 billion adherents, because a bunch of crazy guys say so? Are there any Islamic clerics, who value OBLs religious opinion?
I agree, that OBL was never paid by the Americans. But US taxpayers funded the mujahideen. And some of those very same mujahideen even joined al-qaeda resp. the taliban.