‘Native Americans’ and the Xmas tree

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The Native Americans asked their priest about his predictions about the coming winter, and he said that he would ask the spirits and tell them.

The priest called the meteorologists, instead of the spirits, and they told him that the winter would be cold, so he informed his followers of this and asked them to buy firewood to keep their homes and themselves warm.

After a while, they came back and asked him again about the weather. He asked them to give him some time, and he went back to the meteorologist about the coldness of the coming winter. He said it would be colder than he expected, so the priest returned to his people and asked them to buy more firewood, because the winter would be severe!

They continued asking the priest, and the latter called the meteorologist, and the recommendations continued to buy more firewood, until wood disappeared from the market.

In the priest’s last call to the meteorologist, the employee told him that the coming winter would be the coldest in the history of America. He asked him how he made his prediction, and he said: When you see Indians scrambling to buy firewood. I know that the winter will be very harsh!

I remembered that old joke, after a British woman I knew, told me that she noticed the disappearance of plastic Christmas trees and their accessories from the stores when she went to buy a Christmas tree for her children.

She remembered my joke about the Native Americans collecting wood for heating, and how she had told her husband about the disappearance of those trees and how he immediately searched for the reason for the loss of these simple and happy items from the market.

It turned out that trade inspectors had prevented their sale and issued violations against the stores that were selling them, under the pretext that it was a violation of public morals.

I do not know how the display of innocent plastic Christmas trees, their most innocent accessories, and Santa Claus robes “violated public morals”.

This is a very ridiculous decision that reminded me of a previous, even more ridiculous and foolish decision, issued more than half a century ago, and still in effect, which prevented all hotels from celebrating festivals and playing the piano in their lobbies, specifically from December 24 (the day before Christmas) to the first of January (i.e. the day after New Year’s Day).

Perhaps trade officials have the right to practice whatever reprehensible behavior they wish, armed with their administrative powers, and deprive thousands of short and innocent moments of joy, but what does public morality have to do with selling a Christmas tree? Why hide behind a ministerial decision and interpret it as saying that the Christmas tree, its electrical wires, its small balls, its lights, and its Santa Claus cap are in violation of Islamic law?

This is intransigence and “tyranny” in a country that has become foreign to us. How can someone issue such a decision, and then rush to a non-Muslim, often, to provide him with treatment and relieve his pain, and to prescribe and dispense medicine for him, and then the latter rise up and deprive the dying children of the person who treated him from enjoying their moments ‘innocent happiness’?

The Ministry of Commerce’s decision to confiscate Christmas trees and impose financial fines on those who displayed them, without knowing that this was a violation of Sharia law, is laughable and shameful at the same time, and must be stopped.

What about the thousands of goods and materials related to the Christian religion, such as clothes, gold crosses, etc., other than those who bear names or run shops in their names, will they also be banned?

Will this be followed by the closure of churches, which is what the forces of darkness and backwardness failed to do 122 years ago, and it seems that they will succeed now? What about the embassies that raise flags bearing the emblem of the cross, or the representation of the Red Cross in Kuwait, and the representation of the Vatican?

These ridiculous actions not only distance us from the civilized world, but have also made us a people of hypocrites and contradictory in our behavior.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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