Tell me, would they dare censor a Muslim holiday in this country?
Of course not. Moslems are "the other," and they must be celebrated. It is only "us," "we," "the abstract host population" that must suppress its manifestations.
I can't help but marvel that Black chr*stians are AWOL on this issue just as they are with creation/evolution and any number of social issues. John Brown would be very disappointed if he were around today (though being a Puritan, he probably didn't observe chr*stmas).