Do Muslims in Western countries like US/UK and Norway celebrate Christmas.

[diwana]

Re: Do Muslims in Western countries like US/UK and Norway celebrate Christmas.

@saregamapa

Do Muslims in Western countries like US and Norway celebrate Christmas? Is it as a Secular holiday or birth of Jesus. Pew found 73 percent of Hindus and 76 percent of Buddhists surveyed "celebrate Christmas.

Khyati Y. Joshi: Asian Americans and Religion: Pew Study Highlights Hindu, Buddhist Diversity

Pew found 73 percent of Hindus and 76 percent of Buddhists surveyed “celebrate Christmas.” As Pew notes, “holiday celebrations can … entail religious, secular or a mix of both practices.” But even assuming that for most Hindu Americans, “celebrating Christmas” is more about trees and gifts than the Baby Jesus, this is a striking figure. The framers of the Constitution could not have imagined America’s religious diversity today, but they would surely rejoice to see different religious groups celebrating with one another.

These data also provides a window on the American diversity of faiths by illuminating some of the distinctions among non-Christian faiths. Whereas Jewish Americans probably don’t “celebrate Christmas” at a similar rate, this isn’t because Jews are more sensitive or “stronger” in their faith or because Hindus are weaker in theirs or are “assimilating.” Rather, it’s about a theological distinction between the two. For a Jew, “celebrating Christmas” could imply accepting the Christian idea that Jesus was the Messiah sent to fulfill the prophecies in the Tanakh (Hebrew sacred texts). By contrast, the Christmas story does not contradict any similarly central tenet of Hinduism or Buddhism. In the absence of a need for theological exclusivity, Hindus can indeed “celebrate Christmas” without negating their own beliefs.

Pew concludes that Asian American religions are being transformed in the United States. Of course, they are. The development of American Hinduism is being influenced by the dominant culture and shaped by the experiences of young Hindus raised in a Christian milieu. And Asian American religions are also transforming the United States.

In order to advance religious pluralism, the normative nature of Christianity must be acknowledged. We need to stop judging or understanding our neighbors’ faiths based only on what we understand as “religion.”

Perhaps someday, the number of American Christians “celebrating Diwali” (a holiday celebrated not only by 95 percent of American Hindus, but also by 45 percent of non-Hindu Indian Americans) will match the number of Hindus “celebrating Christmas.”

In the meantime, let us relish these new data, while recognizing that avoiding Christian normativity in social science research can help us better meet and discover America’s other religions on their own terms.

You have not changed a bit!

You bring periodically something in the form of a thread, and ask something which makes no sense.

My friend, there is no indication that the survey was conducted on large muslim population and bringing muslims in the context of this survey is shear idiocy.

Read the link and look for the total number of surveys and the people who were asked to answer the questions.

The conclusion and results of the studies have nothing to do with Muslims.

Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

• The survey was conducted Jan. 3-March 27, 2012, in all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, and the District of Columbia.
• The survey included **3,511 interviews, **including 728 interviews with Chinese Americans, 504 interviews with Filipino Americans, 580 interviews with Indian Americans, 515 interviews with Japanese Americans, 504 interviews with Korean Americans, 504 interviews with Vietnamese Americans and 176 interviews with Asians of other backgrounds.