What is it that you and people like you do not understand that this is Christmas. That the majority of the people in this country celebrate Christmas and not a Jewish holiday. And that we have done so for decades before people like you wanted to implant other religious meanings into this holiday. I - and probably millions of other people - do not care one wit how Jews celebrate their special days and have no desire to implant Christain symbols or meanings into a Jewish holiday. I wish you - and people like you - would just let us celebrate Christmas without attempting to dilute the holiday.
Christmas is December 25th. Hannakuh is December 15th.
Nobody is trying to put a Menorah in your living room.
Is your faith in christ weak enough that it will be somehow harmed if you see a menorah in an airport? "Oh, I was so enjoying my Christmas, but now I had to walk past a Menorah, and it's ruined, ruined, ruined".
If I were concerned, it would be about how Christmas is now "celebrated" on TV by newscasts showing hundreds of people in line to buy the latest video game (complete with stories of people getting shot and having fights), and endless "christmas" specials about Santa Claus having to have his "christmas cheer" recharged so we can all get presents and remember the important lesson of Christmas, which seems to be that you can always return the stuff you don't like.
Our country IS an open society, where all it's citizens should be allowed to celebrate their heritage. This is NOT the same as LIVING in their own culture -- I strongly believe in the melting pot and think cultural diversity will be our death.
But people have different things that they are proud of, or that they like to celebrate, and I don't mind at all seeing positive symbols of their heritage.
If we all worked harder at portraying our own principles and philosophies in a positive light, we would all be happier. People who can only be happy when other people's points of view are actively suppressed scare me. Muslims are big on suppressing other people's displays of religion.
Boy I wonder if you'd have the gall to say that to Jesus Himself...considering that HE was Jewish and celebrated Chanukkah