Xmas And 9/11

OK, I'll admit the connection is not obvious, and my being Jewish may make it seem odd that I'm writing about this at all--but I am still flabbergasted by the silliness of this:

Christmas trees 'make non-Christians feel excluded'
Christmas trees should be removed from public places to avoid making non-Christians feel “excluded”, scientists have suggested.

Are you beginning to see the connection?
Heaven help the Christians who fall for this 'scientific research'
Heaven help us if we become embarrassed and start make excuses for ourselves.

A week after 9/11, Instaupundit wrote this:

QUEEN ELIZABETH II SANG A FOREIGN NATIONAL ANTHEM for the first time the other day. It was The Star Spangled Banner. She also sang The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Mark Steyn reports. God save -- or at least God bless -- the Queen. Steyn contrasts her behavior with that of the ninnies who are banning flags at schools and workplaces, or observing, as a teacher at his area high school did, that the Allies killed more people in Dresden than the terrorist did on Tuesday, and continues with this observation:

This is what brought us to Tuesday morning: the western world's 30-year campaign of self-denigration, culminating in its ludicrous determination to apologize for Western Civilization to the massed ranks of gangsters and dictators (supported as always by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the Republic of Himself) at Durban, a week before the massacres. This is the start of a long war, with civilians in the front line. We will never win it if we are ashamed of ourselves, our culture, our history.

That's why I thank the queen, a non-American but, pace the vice-provost of Lehigh University, not one who's uncomfortable with the emblems of the great republic that overthrew her forebear.

Bravo. [emphasis added]

Don't be a ninny.

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