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Sunday, December 17, 2017

ENRAGED AT TRUMP, NAZARETH'S MUSLIM MAYOR BANS TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

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ENRAGED AT TRUMP, NAZARETH'S MUSLIM MAYOR BANS TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS 
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
Now that President Trump has shown that he will not submit to intimidation over Jerusalem, Islamic supremacists are trying a new tactic to bring him to heel: intimidation.

“Christmas Is Canceled: Nazareth’s Muslim Mayor Bans Traditional Christmas Celebrations in Christ’s Childhood Home,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, December 16, 2017 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
The Muslim mayor of Nazareth has cancelled traditional outdoor songs and plays celebrating Christmas in the city where Jesus spent his childhood.
Mayor Ali Salam, who once made the curious boast that U.S. President Donald Trump “learned everything from me” about how to win elections, indicated that he was punishing local and visiting Christians as revenge for the President’s decision to officially recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
“Our message is we love Jerusalem, we’ll never abandon you under any circumstances,” Salam declared.
“Our identity and faith aren’t up for debate … The decision [by Donald Trump about Jerusalem] has taken away the joy of the holiday, and we will thus cancel the festivities this year.”
While Nazareth is located within Israel proper rather than Palestinian Authority territory in Gaza and the West Bank, a majority of its inhabitants are Arabs with Israeli citizenship.
At a little over 30 per cent of the population, Christians are a significant minority — but are dominated by the Muslim majority which voted Salam into power.
Nevertheless, the local administration has already walked back his aggressive position somewhat, conceding “there are commercial interests of the city and we are used to hundreds of thousands [of Christians] coming for this season.”
Some elements of the traditional celebrations will therefore go ahead, such as the Christmas market and a parade on December 23rd — but the singing performances and outdoor plays which usually mark the season will be prohibited.
According to the Bible, the city of Nazareth is where the archangel Gabriel told the Virgin Mary she would bear the Saviour, making it one Christianity’s holiest sites….
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 Nazareth Cancels Official Christmas Activities 
to Protest Trump’s Jerusalem Move
 They’re not celebrating Christmas this year in the town Christians believe to be the childhood hometown of Jesus. Ali Salam, the mayor of Nazareth who is a Muslim, ordered that all celebrations of the Christian holiday be called off, the city council announced Thursday, according to the Times of Israel... Learn more: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/natio...
 Nazareth Mayor cancels Christmas
 Trumps decision to acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel's capital is proven to be the correct move by Nazareth's Mayor Ali Salam, Mayor Ali Salam has cancelled city sponsored Christmas celebrations in Nazareth. the excuse being President Trumps acknowledgment that Jerusalem is Israel's capital city . Already previously a capital city for the Jewish people, and now again since the re-establishment of Israel, That Israel has freedom of religion and respect for all faiths, further qualifies Israel to have dominion over Jerusalem, where all faiths free of persecution, have access to their holy sites under Israeli control. Already the Jewish people have experienced total denial of access to their holy places,when East Jerusalem was under Arab control between 1948 and 1967, a point often overlooked in that Jordan allowed only very limited access to Christian holy sites, and restrictions were imposed on the Christian population that led many to leave the city.(Wikipedia). This intolerance towards other faiths is still apparent today, highlighted by Nazareth's Mayor Ali Salam and a city who cancelled Christmas where Jesus spent his childhood. elsewhere such as Bethlehem, once a majority 60% population of Christians now only 20% When the Palestinian leadership speak of unity with their Christian brothers against the false claim of Jewish oppression, who, with even just a small amount of rational thought, can not see the deception ?