They hate Christianity. So of course they hate Christmas.
The perennial yuletide favorite “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” was introduced in the 1944 MGM film Meet Me in St. Louis. It’s a bittersweet song, sung by Esther Smith (Judy Garland) to her little sister Tootie (Margaret O’Brien) at a point in the story when they think that their family is about to move to New York from their beloved home in the Gateway City. The melody was by Ralph Blane; the lyric, by Hugh Martin, began: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / Let your heart be light. / Next year all our troubles will be out of sight.”
But those weren’t the original words. When the songwriters first submitted their ditty to the folks at MGM, the opening lines read: “Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / It may be your last. / Next year we may all be living in the past.” But Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli, her director and future husband, found them far too downbeat for this sweet family drama. So Martin changed them.
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas, / It may be your last.” Many of us in the West, surveying the landscape around us, have been intensely aware for years now of the changes that our own little corner of the world has undergone. In some places, to be sure, the changes are more dramatic than others. In Western Europe, many cities are barely recognizable; certain once-pleasant neighborhoods now considered no-go zones, while in other neighborhoods the Muslim call to prayer can be heard several times a day from the minaret of the nearest mosque.
The U.S. is not as far gone, but it’s on the way. Minneapolis, once a remarkably clean, quiet, and safe metropolis, its culture shaped by hardworking, law-abiding Scandinavians, is now a stronghold of corrupt, criminal Somalis. Meanwhile, Muslims in Plano, Texas, of all places, are building their own Emerald City a few miles to the east.
If the place you’re living in hasn’t gotten there yet, it will soon.
Some of us, as noted, are keenly aware of all this. Yet not a few of the people around us seem to be blind to these changes – or are scared to admit to noticing them.
Still others see a difference only when the Christmas season comes around. In many Western European countries, for example, while Muslim holidays are publicly commemorated with ever-increasing visibility, celebrations of Christmas are scaled back year after year. Indeed, it’s because official Christmas events in London have been more and more muted in recent years that Tommy Robinson (whom the British elites hate because he blew the whistle on Muslim rape gangs) held a public carol service on December 13. Huge crowds showed up. It was apparently enjoyed by all. But the legacy media, which have been brainwashed into condemning anything that might offend a Muslim, labeled it “controversial.”
Still, Tommy saved London – or saved Christmas in London, anyway. Paris has had no such luck. In that city, perhaps the most popular annual event of the Christmas season is the New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées. It’s been going on for six decades; last year it drew a million people. But it won’t happen this time around. Why? Because Muslim mayhem in Paris has made large outdoor gatherings of this sort increasingly dangerous.
For one thing, the Champs-Élysées, as the New York Post reported on December 13, has been transformed from a rue des rêves into a road to perdition, with throngs of young Muslim migrants streaming in every night from the suburbs to loot high-end boutiques and brawl with pedestrians and police; for another, New Year’s Eve in the City of Light has for years been a less and less pleasant experience, with nearly a thousand cars being set on fire on December 31, 2024.
Way back on October 16 came the news that Germany’s counterpart to the New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées is also saying auf Wiedersehen. This year, the midnight celebration – which is usually broadcast from the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a setting that is symbolic of Western freedom – is retreating to a less resonant location in Hamburg. In this case, Berlin’s mayor, Kai Wegner, blamed a tight budget, even though the city spends handsome amounts every year on Islamic cultural events such as “Muslim Culture Week.”
In many municipalities around the West, this seems to be becoming the rule: millions for Muslim social functions, nothing for Christianity.
In many a European city, one of the favorite destinations for holiday shoppers is the local open-air Christmas market. Alas, precisely because they’re popular with shoppers, these markets are also choice targets for terrorists. The litany of jihadist attacks on these markets in recent years is sobering. Just two examples out of many: on December 19, 2016, a truck was driven into the Christmas market at the foot of the famous Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, killing twelve people and injuring 56; on December 20, 2024, an SUV plowed into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing six people and injuring 338. --->READ MORE HERE
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