should you give Muslim neighbours a Christmas card?

[grannyinapram]

YABU
you shouldn't as they don't celebrate
YANBU
you should or else its excluding them

birdseedpie Sun 13-Dec-20 18:34:55
Only if they send you a card when it's Eid.

Eid cards aren't as much of a tradition as Christmas cards. But a ot of Muslims will share food with neighbours at Eid.

Is 'only give if you get something in return' part of the spirit of Christmas or Christianity? Sounds a bit Scrooge to me!

@SelfIcellation

My Muslim colleagues have no problems with that. I think Jesus is a Muslim prophet too, unless someone with more knowledge can enlighten me.

Yes Jesus is. My family in the ME have asked for CDs of Christmas carols and music for their kids and the biggest/most enthusiastic Christmas celebrations in our family are by the family who are actually observant Muslims.

As a child we used to have a muslim lodger.
We gave him a Christmas Card, etc, and invited him to some of our celebrations, though not Christmas Dinner. He later gave us a Ramadan? Card, or similar.
However, I once sent a Christmas Card to someone, who I did not know is a Jehovah's Witness, who do not celebrate Christmas, and got a very nasty letter back. It was disappointing as I had sent it in a spirit of Goodwill, which was NOT reciprocated.

Our Muslim neighbours give us a card and chocolates so we do too.

My Muslim neighbours brought round a Christmas card and a cake! Lovely and unexpected. I'm going to take them a card and some nice biscuits.

Do you like them? If yes, give them a card.

I don’t see why not. Maybe make it non-religious of course. Christmas is, after all, a time of peace and goodwill and stuff.

Christmas is haram for Muslim people.

What?!

I lived in a Muslim country where Hari Krismas was a national holiday. Christians were expected to invite Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist friends over to share their celebrations, in the same way that Christians would be invited to help celebrate other festivals.

Suggesting Christmas is "haram" is a short cut to community division. I was quite proud of myself. I managed to find a halal frozen turkey which was imported from Brazil and stocked in a Japanese owned supermarket. Easier than my Scottish colleagues who needed a halal haggis for Burns night.

Yes, but not a Christmas card, or a religious one, just a happy holiday card. They do this a lot in America.

I've asked Muslims about this in the past and the ones I've asked (admittedly none of whom are particularly devout) have all said they welcome Xmas cards. Its a thoughtful gesture which indicates you are thinking of them.

I also have a very close Jewish friend who I send a Xmas card to every year and she has never been offended by it.

I think people overthink this: if I was sent a card celebrating Eid or Diwali I would not be remotely offended by it.

Respecting other people's faiths doesn't mean you have to expunge reference to your own (or in my case my country's as I don't have faith).

Are there even "Eid Mubarak" cards? We've never done them, nor have we recieved them. I don't think I've seen them anywhere.
It's usually food which makes appearance instead.

Our muslim neighbours send Christmas cards, they also drop off delicious food to us at Eid and Ramadan. This isn't an exception, when I was growing up we had Muslim neighbours who did exactly the same in the 80s/ 90s. It's a way of expressing friendship and season's good wishes apart from anything else.

But I just knew there would be those on here clamouring to ask "do they send you a card when it's Eid?" Most Muslims i have ever encountered personally are generous and kind.

I'm sorry that happened to you, milveycrohn - it was very unkind of the JW

Even if they'd just chucked the card in the bin I'd have hoped they'd appreciate you meant it well, but don't let it put you off; happily, only a very few people are like that

My my .. worked with Muslims. They loved to get Easter eggs and Christmas cards .. Nice people do not care about other peoples religious practices.. just embrace them. They find it a bit quirky actually and fun and nice. Just send them a Christmas card.. Lets all love eachother eh ?

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Are there even "Eid Mubarak" cards? We've never done them, nor have we recieved them. I don't think I've seen them anywhere. It's usually food which makes appearance instead.

I send some to certain members of the family - it it’s mostly presents for the kids. And new year of course (which is a much brighter/more fun event).

Yes, and they send me one. We give the children gifts for Christmas, they share their food at Eid.

I’ve not had issues with some (other) religions over Christmas but definitely have seen it with some others (like the poster above - nasty, aggressive, reducing staff to tears...)

We had Muslim next door neighbours for four years. We used to exchange Christmas cards and they always used to share their amazing homemade food with us at Eid.

Yes . They will like this .

If they are Arabic speakers you can write "sanaa saida" which is happy new year !

@ThatIsNotMyUsername ah! I will have to look for them next time just out of curiosity. His family was sent a sheep last time. I think card would just get forgotten😂

My old muslim neighbour used to join us for Christmas dinner, although he did give the pigs in blankets a miss.

A live sheepy baa baa? Crikey! If you can’t find a card just get something with nice flowers on it!

I give my Muslim friends a Christmas card and they give one to us! Why not?

@ThatIsNotMyUsername

A live sheepy baa baa? Crikey! If you can’t find a card just get something with nice flowers on it!

😂 I am not sure how it worked but we bought them a sheep to eat. I think they picked one? I remember seeing some live ones in pens you could pick from, when we were there. Or was it delivered live? I don't know he muttered something when I asked and that was that😂 Apparently wwe sent a sheep😂

We're Muslim and have just made a handmade card and wrapped a small gift for the family next door.

They also do the same thing for us every year.