Labour peer Lord Ahmed, one of the country’s most prominent Muslim politicians, said: ‘It is stupid to think all Muslims would be offended. ‘The Muslim community has been talking to Christians for the past 1,400 years.’ He added: ‘In my business all my staff celebrate Christmas and I celebrate with them. It is absolutely not the case that Christmas could damage the Red Cross reputation for neutrality – I think their people have gone a little bit over the top.’
One is tempted to dump on fanatical Islam for this one but in fact the enemy is political correctness that is a result of profound cultural cowardice. In fact, the two are indistinguishable.
The original tenet of multiculturalism was, although debatable, actually fairly reasonable: that all cultures are worthy of respect. This, mixed up with a little academic Marxism, morphed into "all cultures except the dominant one are worthy of respect." For those obsessed with appearing open-minded this was further distorted into "all cultures except mine are worthy of respect." For those even further down the road to masochistic guilt-mongering, it became "all cultures except mine are worthy of respect because I'm an oppressor."
This sack-cloth-and-ashes interpretation of Western culture has completely disarmed its adherents in the face of the real, aggressive, violent Islamism that really would suppress Christmas. They are defenseless because guilt and self-loathing have made them so, which is fine, I suppose, except that they intend to take the rest of us down with them in the grand self-immolation of Western culture that is demanded by cowardice. They deserve to be mocked and they are being mocked, but far more important, they deserve to be driven from the positions of power that enable them to foist this silliness on all of us.
Consider the possibility that the attack on Christianity is coming, not from any Muslim source, but from gay activists who want to hide the true source of the attack.
You’re right that source of the problem is cultural cowardice and treason on the part of Western leaders. Their worst decision by far though is to allow Muslim immigration. We’d have nothing to fear from the Religion of Peace if we didn’t invite its adherents into our lands.