So why is it o.k. for Muslims to celebrate Christmas? For starters, Allah commands us to do so, in the Quran.
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In Pakistan, on Christmas my mother would go for Midnight Mass and light a candle. “You are a Muslim! Why did you go to a church for a Christmas service?” a woman asked her. “Because I am a Muslim,” my quick-witted mother retorted . . .
An Arabian Christmas
“It’s Christmas Eve tonight,” my boss said to me, speaking in a gentle, sentimental tone. “We should do something for the nurses on the floors.” I was surprised. Surprised because this was Saudi Arabia where Christmas is a no-no. And my boss was a Saudi man.
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If someone had walked into my home yesterday, she would have said, “Only in New York!” In a Muslim home, with Quranic calligraphy gracing the walls, a Jewish woman says the Hanukah prayer over the menorah and candles, while the soft sounds of Silent Night, Holy Night play from the replica of Nativity Scene, and the ladies munch over Santa chocolates wrapped in red and silver wrappers.
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