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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The first politician with his own theme tune. How he wasn't elected is beyond me.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Jeremy Corbyn was simply ahead of his time.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago

He was pro-brexit, and had a fantasist’s mentality over Trident. Many people didn’t like this.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Telling my accountant relative how I heard I should put money into an IRA, and so Seamus says him and the boys are grateful for the aid

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like Hezbollah and Hamas care about Christmas

[–] mech@feddit.org 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My landlady is Muslim. She was happy when I wished her a Merry Christmas, and also decorated her house for the holidays.
It's not like it really has anything to do with Christianity nowadays.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jesus (Isa) features in the Quran as the prophet prior to Muhammad.

Celebrating the birth of one of God's prophets is probably still a good thing. I'll defer to an expert though.

Also, your landlady is probably just a nice person.

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It depends. Jesus is certainly as important as Mohammed to Muslims and it's not prohibited to celebrate his birth but some would never participate simply because it's a Christian tradition. Also the ban of images makes all the customs around Christmas a little tricky. In Turkey for example a lot of Muslims do celebrate but you won't find nativity scenes or stuff like that there, only images of Noel Baba ("Christmas Dad" = Santa) who is modeled after Saint Nicholas but himself not a religious figure.

[–] amorangi@lemmy.nz 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ironic, since St Nick is Turkish.

He isn't. He's greek. He lived in anatolia before the turks did.

90larda hic kimse noel kutlamazdi. Ne kutlanislar varsa Islam'la alakasi yok. Hristiyanlar noelde isa mesih, yani allah'in oglunun dogum gününü kutlar. Kesinlikle 100% haram.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jesus is the most important figure in Islam, and is believed to be the Messiah. But Muslims don't believe that Jesus was born on December 25th.

However many Muslim-majority cultures of course celebrate the winter solstice (Yalda Night has Zoroastrian roots).

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago

But Muslims don’t believe that Jesus was born on December 25th.

He wasn't, not even in december. The church's selection of december was to coopt the existing saturnalia festival.

[–] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 5 points 6 days ago

Never really had anything to do with Christianity in the first place either. It's an old Germanic tradition celebrating the winter solstice. When the insane Yahweh cult took control over Europe they inserted themselves into all of our stories and rituals.