Yay, the local terrorist organization has a Santa!
Via Daily Wire:
On Monday, The New York Times, in an effort to show that radical Islamists in Lebanon hate Israel but actually love Christians, published an article in which representatives of Iran, the leading state sponsor of terrorism and whose government encourages chants of “Death to the U.S.,” celebrated Christmas, and Hezbollah, which has been named a terrorist organization by the United states, imported a Santa Claus.
Promoting the piece, the Times wrote on Twitter, “Hezbollah, the Shiite political movement and militia that the United States has branded a terrorist organization, has helped ring in the season in previous years, importing a Santa to Beirut’s southern suburbs to distribute gifts.”
The Times reported on an Iranian-sponsored event on Saturday at which an Iranian cultural attaché stood near “a twinkling Christmas tree, a gold star gilding its tip. Angel ornaments and miniature Santa hats nestled among its branches. Fake snow dusted fake pine needles.” The attaché proclaimed, “Today, we’re celebrating the birth of Christ and also the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.” The new mufti of the Shiite Muslims of Lebanon, Ahmed Kabalan, added that Christians and Muslims “are one family, against corruption, with social justice, against authority, against Israel, with the Lebanese Army and with the resistance.”