“The Little-Known Story of the Islamic Christmas Tree”

An interesting and thought-provoking perspective:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-islamic-christmas-tree-the-other-perspective_us_58322a54e4b0eaa5f14d4730

I don’t agree, by the way, that “Western bombing” is a principal cause of the current Middle Eastern refugee crisis.  ISIS and the Syrian civil war are the main causes there.  (If you want to include Russia in “the West,” I suppose you can blame it for some of the casualties in Syria.  Our new friend, dear Mr. Putin, is quite brutal.)  Instability in Iraq is also a cause, and you could blame the American invasion many years ago as among the preceding factors, but it’s certainly not a direct or ongoing cause now.

However, those are relative quibbles to an interesting piece.

Posted from Alexandria, Virginia