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  • 2017-12-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Muslim Mayor Just Banned the Word ‘Christmas?’ (en)
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  • The disreputable web site Last Line of Defense jumped into the war on Christmas fray in December 2017 by publishing a false article claiming that a Muslim mayor in New Jersey had banned the word Christmas: This article is wrong on several fronts. First, Ravi Bhalla is not currently the mayor of Hoboken, as the article’s headline implies. He was elected in 2017 and will take office in 2018, (as stated in the body of the article). Second, Bhalla is Sikh, not Muslim. Because he wears a turban, he is frequently subjected to Islamophobic rumors. For instance, Reagan Was Right, a sister web site of Last Line of Defense, published an article in November 2017 falsely claiming that Bhalla had vowed to glorify Allah with every decision he made in office. Not only did Bhalla not ban the word Christmas, he used it himself in a post on social media wishing Christmas-celebrators a merry one and complementing schoolchildren on their carol-singing. He also posted about lighting Hoboken's menorah for Hanukkah: The Last Line of Defense brands this sort of Islamophobic content as satire. The footer of the web site contains the Google definition for the word: The idea of a Muslim mayor's banning the word Christmas is related to the claim that there is a war against the extremely popular holiday, which has never been banned in the United States. (en)
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