Supporters of the Islamic terrorist group took a special pleasure in attacking Christianity. Carolers singing “Gloria in excelsis deo” or “Glory to God in the
highest” at the Washington Square Park Christmas tree near New York
University were shouted down by Muslim and leftist allies shrieking, “Shut it down! Shut it down!”
People have been killed for merely drawing cartoons of Mohammed, but
Muslims feel empowered to shout down Christian hymns before Christmas a
few miles from Ground Zero. On the Boston Common, Hamas supporters defaced a nativity scene to read, “Jesus was Palestinian.”
Pro-Hamas rioters attacked the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting in
Manhattan. The Muslim American Society, a Muslim Brotherhood
organization (the parent group of Hamas) whose mission is to promote
“Islam as a total way of life” and Samidoun, a terrorist front group
banned in Israel and Germany, announced plans to “Flood the Tree Lightning for Gaza”.
The ‘Flood’ name was a reference to Al-Aqsa Flood: the Hamas name for the atrocities of Oct 7. Families were blocked from getting to the annual Christmas tradition as Hamas supporters rioted, assaulted police officers and chanted calls for the destruction of Israel and America.
“I had planned my holiday around this event, being a big fan of
Christmas. Now I’m walled in by a bunch of terrorist-loving a–holes
calling for intifada,” a British tourist complained. “How many of y’all would come out on Christmas Day and ruin their Christmas?” Nerdeen Kiswani,
the chair of Within Our Lifetime, an organization dedicated to the
destruction of Israel, shouted at another New York City hate rally.
“Christmas is canceled,” Fatima Mohammed, a fellow former CUNY law student, yelled. “No Christmas as usual,” terrorist supporters chanted outside St.
Patrick’s Cathedral near Central Park while downtown stores were
vandalized with graffiti, “Long live the intifada.”
Hamas supporters went on to rampage against “joy” at Christmas tree
lightings around the country. In San Francisco’s Union Square, they
threw down Christmas ornaments and
planted their terrorist flag atop a Christmas tree. In Ypsilanti,
Michigan, terror supporters showed up near a Christmas tree to proclaim
that, “America is a terrorist state”.
At Seattle’s annual Christmas tree lighting, they brought a megaphone
and chanted calls for the destruction of Israel. Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds
condemned the “protest in support of Hamas terrorists” during her
celebration and Sacramento’s Christmas tree lighting in California’s
state capital had to be canceled because of the anticipated pro-terror
rallies. And that is what the terrorists wanted.
“Christmas is canceled,” the Philly Palestine Coalition, which had
previously been condemned for targeting a Jewish business, threatened.
Two police officers were assaulted during pro-terrorist violence during
one of its rallies in Rittenhouse Square. “No Christmas in a Genocide” a San Francisco terrorist rally declared. The SFPD described how the rioters then “began to commit crimes ranging from assault to felony vandalism.”
A “Shut Christmas Down For Palestine” rally targeted shoppers in
London and partially succeeded in shutting down local businesses. A
terrorist supporter brandished a genocidal sign reading, “Death to settler colonialism everywhere. Viva Palestina.” The Hamas supporters seemed to take a special delight in ruining Christmas for kids.
In Bradford, England, they berated children who
were taking in a Coca Cola Christmas truck. In an Ottawa mall,
terrorist supporters frightened children waiting in line for Santa while
in a Toronto mall, the rampaging masked mob draped with keffiyahs
threatened to kill shoppers.
And before Christmas Eve, terrorist supporters set out plans for
blocking and flooding highways and roads near airports and commuter
travel points to make sure people would be separated from their
families. This was the closest thing to a victory for Muslim terrorist
supporters. When they say Christmas is canceled, they mean it. And they always have.
Before Hamas supporters began trying to shut down Christmas in New
York City, San Francisco, London, Philly and at any of the hundreds of
other pro-terrorist rallies around America and the world, they were
shutting down Christmas in Gaza. In 2011, it was reported that, “there hasn’t been a Christmas tree in
Gaza City’s main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority
out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday.”
In 2020, Hamas’ Director-General of the General Authority of Preaching had issued a directive to “Limit Interaction with Christmas”. That same year,
Ahmad Kulab, the head of Hamas’ Department for Training of Preachers,
warned that, “Christians must [keep] the celebration of their holidays
to their homes, their houses of worship, and their churches.” And,
quoting Islamic teachings, he denounced “the dwellers of Hellfire, the
Jews and the Christians.”
After a backlash, Hamas appeared to allow small Christmas tree lightings to go forward. Instead, Hamas supporters began shutting down Christmas in America.
They shout about “occupation”, but they’re the ones doing the occupying.
They’re occupying Christmas tree lightings and public celebrations,
shouting down prayerful songs with hate, and using the season to call
for death and destruction to be visited upon the enemies of Islam.
They’re serious about canceling joy and replacing it with hate and
murder. And they’re serious about ending Christmas and intimidating,
assaulting and killing those who defy them. Hamas supporters shout Gaza has been invaded, when Gaza has actually invaded America.
