Posted on 12/14/2008 5:14:04 AM PST by Man50D
The decision by a New York village to place the Islamic star and crescent alongside the community's official Christmas tree has a Catholic leader wondering if there are any wise men among the town's leaders.
Supervisors for Armonk, N.Y. voted to display a menorah and a star and crescent at tonight's Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the town's gazebo.
"We've decided to go in the direction of being all-inclusive," Supervisor Reese Berman told Associated Press.
The village had added the menorah previously. Last year, town resident Asad Jilani, saying the Christmas season is an appropriate time to celebrate all cultures, asked the board to include Islamic symbols as well.
"I said 'Oh, there's a menorah and a Christmas tree and where is my crescent?'" said Jilani.
Berman, who is Jewish, said the town did not have time to adequately address Jilani's request last year and, to not make Muslims feel they were being specifically excluded, the menorah was removed to a local synagogue.
"The last thing I was suggesting was to move the menorah," Jilani said. "I wanted this to be for openness, for representing everyone."
This year, after a committee researched the law and what was being done in other communities, Armonk leaders voted to include the star and crescent, even though the closest Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha does not always fall in December.
"It might have been easier to just do away with the Christmas tree and everything else but it would be too much of an assault on what we're used to at Christmas," said Berman.
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So where’s the pentagram? Incluuze ALL the devils!
That’s fine, as long as they include a cross during Muslim holidays.
I understand now why Jesus said that the road to Heaven is very narrow and not everyone will be allowed to enter.
These PC idiots need to get their heads out of their butts and accept Jesus Christ who is the ONLY Savior!
This should have finished with, "... the village idiot is already included - I'm in charge."
Some are in for a big surprise, or they just don’t care. The trumpet will sound.
AND 9/11 is a distant memory.
Yes.
I believe there will be a crescent moon on inauguration night.
I assume we will have the obligatory skyward machinegun fire and tongue trilling on Christmas eve. Perhaps a few bomb blasts.
National suicide. We need to toss out all these P.C. politicos and install some with the stones to resist and repel the islamic invasion. Because it IS an invasion, with the muzz that are here acting as the Trojan Horse.
Citizens of the state in which 9/11 occurred now honor the religion of those who committed the mayhem. Wow!
This is what it’s come to. If anyone had doubts, those must be vanishing on a daily basis. By custom, we DO NOT celebrate a generic “winter holiday” - We celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah. Putting a different name on the season and making it “inclusive” doesn’t change the reality of what it is.
Words mean something and facts are facts. Americans have shown an amazing willingness to be duped and enslaved by political correctness. I’m very sad for my country.
Where’s the nativity?
Sorry, a lit tree is not a religious symbol, but secular.
What? No “Festivus Pole?”
I hate this stuff...
Check here for your monthly moon status:
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Ready for the deep freeze?!
We’re getting rain today. 37 degrees already, going up to 43 *YIKES* so everything is a slick, icy mess with the snow melting. Grrrrr! I’ll be selling Christmas Trees today, so being outside will be a pleasure for once this season.
Tonight’s low will be 9 degrees...a 34 degree temperature drop for those playing along at home, LOL!
Then, it’s into the teens for the week. No below-zero predictions YET...but my Bunny Boots are laced up and ready to go! :)
“”We’ve decided to go in the direction of being all-inclusive,” Supervisor Reese Berman told Associated Press.”
Supervisor Berman may be reached here:
supervisor@northcastleny.com
Not a problem but I want the SCV to speak at the Martin Luther King Day celebration. Openness, diversity and all that
“I said ‘Oh, there’s a menorah and a Christmas tree and where is my crescent?’” said Jilani.
Last time I saw one of your “crescents”, it was hacking away at the neck of some poor guy you didn’t like.
Maybe its time to just get the government out of “religion”. “Embracing” all lowers Christianity to the level of a curiosity, a museum relic.”Look children, some people believe this and look some people believe that.”
We the people will decide which to honor. We can hold our own parades and whatnot. Government can just stay neutral meaning stay out of the way. [It assumes a non-hostile municipal government that will not withold permits etc.]
There is no need for cities to be involved. Much as I would like them to acknowlege Christmas, these contortions of “fayerness” are becoming ridiculous.
This particular town didn’t have a real choice. Had the refused to put up the crescent, they would most likely have been sued and would certainly have lost.
Start yer engines!!! I worship that Thing in the box that Phil Harris sang about. You take the Pillsbury dough boy and Mr. Bill.
This PC is far more dangerous than meets the eye. It results in "cloudy thinking" and the inability to ask the questions that need be asked and the inability of a country to reach a coherent, appropriate national consensus.
No kidding.
How about some mannequins, one on his knees in an orange jumpsuit, and one dressed in middle east militant chic, holding a large knife, as the modern Islamic contribution to the winter season multicultural display.
As far as I’ve heard, the only holiday on which other religions must be represented is Christmas. What Christian symbols will be displayed whenever other religions celebrate their holidays?
ML/NJ
“Last year, town resident Asad Jilani, saying the Christmas season is an appropriate time to celebrate all cultures,”
And how was it decided that the Christmas season was an appropriate time to celebrate all cultures? This is just a common leftist tactic: steal someone else’s audience and force your views or symbols on people who don’t care to hear or see them.
Of course, Christians COULD use the opportunity to humbly seek interaction with people of other faiths and figure out how to get outside their cultural bubble and actually (gasp!) “evangelize” and make disciples of the heathen at our door. That might require learning how to love, learning to read the bible with people who have no clue what it says, and learning how to be FRIENDS with the godless.
However, that might require that we see ourselves as sinners just as in need of the Christmas story as the wicked. We might have to actually pray for them and learn how to walk that slippery and unstable road of UNDERSTANDING the worldview and lifestyle of the pagan without swerving over into it.............
Nah, rather than obey the bible ourselves, it is better and safer that we just bitch that the government not make THEM obey, and preserve our holidays from their influence. Never mind how our cuture came to esteem these holidays in the first place.
Isn’t it just a SHAME that all this multicultural doo dah just ruins Christmas. God! How I HATE the wicked!
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
The West is losing.
- John
You all know the only way out of this: It is to declare Islam a non-religion. It is a militant cult that makes modern, secular legal systems easy prey to this cult.
President Bush was speaking to the American people: “I declare tomorrow to be a day of prayer,” said the President. “I ask every American, during lunch time tomorrow to pray for all the injured, their families, and the American nation. Go to church, to the synagogue, to the mosque and pray,” ended the President. “
Did I hear right?” I ask the storekeeper, “Did he say mosque?”
She nodded.
At this very moment you’ve just lost the war,” I say to the astonished storekeeper, and start looking for what I need on the shelves.
http://www.devvy.net/audio/dec08/communitarian_hoax.html
Listen to Devvy Kidd read The Great Communitarian Hoax. Hopefully this will come back into print. It explains exactly what is occurring today in the USofA and how Socialism is spread through Mandatory Community Service and the easy ‘jump’ from there to mindless sheeple accepting Marxism.
Scary stuff. Listen and learn.
>>>>These PC idiots need to get their heads out of their butts and accept Jesus Christ who is the ONLY Savior! <<<<
Gosh darn right!
AMEN. Should be repeated over and over, shouted from the rooftops, sent in letters to editors at every newspaper in America, over and over again. Not just once, but every time it comes up.
Christianity and Judaism don't advocate penalizing/enslaving/killing those who don't adopt Christianity or Judaism. Islam advocates severe negative consequences for "unbelievers" who don't adopt Islam. That is why any symbol of Islam should be excluded ALWAYS EVERY TIME in connection with a Jewish or Christian holiday. Either that, or EVERY MUSLIM HOLIDAY should have a Star of David and a Cross as part of its symbolism if they're going to function here in the United States.
Islam can go to hell. Crusaders must rise again if Western Civilization wants to survive.
http://www.devvy.net/audio/dec08/communitarian_hoax.html
Listen to Devvy Kidd read The Great Communitarian Hoax. Hopefully this will come back into print. It explains exactly what is occurring today in the USofA and how Socialism is spread through Mandatory Community Service and the easy ‘jump’ from there to mindless sheeple accepting Marxism.
Scary stuff. Listen and learn.
I agree. And the problem is deeply rooted. Children are taught to “feel” rather than think or analyze and they’re led to believe that all viewpoints are equally valid.
It would be hard to combat this without overhauling our educational system, and it’g probably already too late.
I agree with you.
But most towns simply won’t and there will be a vocal minority that agitates against taking that stand, using money as its primary objection. The vast majority that DO take such stands lose because of the law’s current interpretation.
Thats why I suggest just getting out of the business entirely. The watered down generic “holiday” stuff is sickening.
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