Posted on 10/03/2007 6:24:04 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
TORONTO - A Toronto mosque is telling Muslims not to say "Happy Thanksgiving" or invite friends into their homes for turkey dinner on the holiday weekend.
The Khalid Bin Al-Walid Mosque says to "avoid participating" in dinners, parties or greetings on Thanksgiving because it is a kuffaar, or non-Muslim, celebration.
A two-part article on the mosque Web site says Muslims should also "stay completely away" from "Halloween trick-and treat nonsense," Christmas, New Year's, anniversaries, birthdays and Earth Day.
"How can we bring ourselves to congratulate or wish people well for their disobedience to Allah? Thus expressions such as:Happy Thanksgiving, Happy Birthday, Happy New Year, etc, are completely out," it says.
In 2003, the Khalid mosque, which mainly serves the Toronto Somali-Canadian community, apologized for a newsletter that compared wishing someone a Merry Christmas to congratulating a murderer.
At the time, a junior employee was blamed for the slight, but the mosque's Web site has since posted similar edicts covering not only Christmas but also virtually every other Western celebration.
Muslims who participate in the holidays are termed ignorant and hypocritical.
While not all are religious holidays, the Internet site says Muslims are required to be different from non-Muslims "in matters which are representative of them or are characteristic of their identity."
Also banned, it says, are: watching sports or soap operas, walking dogs, family photos, wedding bands, Western hats, mingling and shaking hands with the opposite sex.
"Allah and his messenger have warned us against following or imitating non-Muslims in things which are characteristic of their religion or beliefs. This is more emphasized in the case of their eids [festivals] or occasions, which always hold some religious or ideological non-Islamic meanings, and on which the kuffaar indulge in many evil practices."
The Web site also has a question-and-answer section, which advises that Muslims can join political parties only if they are "able to exert some influence on the direction of the party so that it will take an Islamic direction."
Elsewhere in the Q&A section, it says that, "with strong determination and patience, the world will God-willing be under the Muslims' control."
The mosque is run by a federally registered charity. Rival factions within the Somali Muslim community are fighting in court for control of the charity. The mosque president could not be reached yesterday.
You aren't..Please don't leave FR. I read your comments & learn from them. ~Pandora~
Liars, beggars and thieves every single one of them.
If the muslims do away with Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons and all of the charitable giving such as the Salvation Army, thanksgiving meals, Toys for Tots, coats for kids, Christmas food shelves, I’m sure they’ll replace them with their muslim charities for us infidels. Let’s see, there’s the.......ummm...and the.......hmm....
BTW, I wonder if anyone will see the muslims in line for the handouts during these seasons?
LOL. (but true)
I want to see kids dress as Porky Pig at the Ramadan celebrations at the school. Has as much in common as witches, skeletons, hobos, cowboys, santa, and elves do with Christian holidays.
My view is that islam should not be allowed in this country.
I learned about islam and came to these conclusions on the evening of 9/11/2001.
Given the number of muslims in pro sports (especially football) I don’t think it’ll go over well.
At a local church, we had a former muslim (converted Christian) guest speaker who spoke to our evening church goers. He said he couldn’t emphasize enough for the young ladies in the audience to NEVER date a muslim, let a lone marry one. He listed the reasons as to why, such as the husband will change after marriage vows, the suppression, the oppression and the expectations of the woman being submissive..which is absolutely not the submissiveness as commonly known from the Christian perspective. His stance was that the muslim men are taught and raised to be controllers, domineering etc.., and to NOT believe the ‘politically correct’ version of the “peaceful muslims” one hears about in the media. He was adamant...and it appeared that everyone in the audience believed he was serious as a heart attack.....and left believing he spoke the absolute truth. If there were any doubters at the beginning of the session...the chances of them have a doubt after the session of truth, questions and answers...they left stunned as well as filled with new revelations.
Please add me to your list..thanks in advance.
I added you to the list.
Christmas, New Year’s, anniversaries, birthdays and Earth Day.
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Did you see this mess ?
You called it right, it’s nothing but a mess and they’re only hurting themselves. These people will eventually rue the day they started this crap, it’s going to come back and bite them.
I hope that you are correct.
The Coptics in Egypt, the Armenians, the Christians in Lebanon...are not doing well.
Shut them down.
“How do we get them to avoid western COUNTRIES, too?”
YES!!! If only!!!
When are we going to see some hatecrime charges brought against this bunch?
Hey, does this mean that I can publish a newsletter comparing wishing someone a happy Ramadhan to congratulating a child molester?
Islam: putting fun six feet under for 1400 years!
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