Officially, we Muslims don?t celebrate Christmas. But the Catholics are our neighbors. So, we all celebrate all the religious holidays.

We share the same houses, even graveyards. It has been the same for years.

The ongoing tension between different religious traditions points to the necessity of deepening our relations with neighbors of other faiths, moving beyond dialogue to active collaboration in areas of common concern.

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

Every muscle in his body tensed for action, adrenalin pounding through his tiny veins, he crept down the stairs, keeping to the corners (where he knew they creaked less). He peered around the bottom of the stairwell into the living room, and there he saw a lean, bearded man, clad only in a loincloth and a crown of thorns. When he bent over the Xmas tree, Tony saw that blood flowed freely from his bare hands and feet. Before the cherubic prepubescent could stop himself, the words flew out of his mouth: “You’re not Santa!

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.