Re: celebrating christmas
Oh, christmas is a pagan holiday, poor chrisitians just adapted to whatever they liked, us Muslims shouldn't be like that. We can have a long discussion with facts about the pagan holiday if you want :) but I don't want to bore your nor do I want to waste my time..
alright so let's not use kafir. but the person committing kufr (ie beliving Isa alaysalam was born in this day, son of god, etc) is a kafir. so if we take part in their acts of kufr, are we not indirectly accepting them? our beloved Prophet (pbuh) forbid us this very thing. not to adapt to the kufar's ways, especially the ways that go against Islam.
you can happily celebrate this time of year without accepting christmas and going about things with a christmas label. you can receive and give gifts to non-muslims without the intention of christmas. :)