Christmas is a holiday of peace and goodwill. Families come together, angry friends forgive each other, everyone celebrates with a combination of happiness, champagne, and melancholy, and all those things we see in Frank Capra movies. It is difficult for anyone of any religion, or even an agnostic, to be offended by this celebration. But what I find puzzling is that celebrating the holiday with lights and Christmas motifs is now becoming frowned upon not, as one might expect, in Karachi or Mogadishu, but in the heart of Old Europe.
