“Is It a Sin for a Muslim To Celebrate Christmas”- Barcelona Soccer Star Posts a Powerful Message After Fans Destroy Liverpool Star Mohamed Salah on Social Media
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The whole world is celebrating Christmas. The houses are decorated, and the kids wait for Santa to drop their presents. However, amid all this soccer community is in a spiral due to a very bizarre reason. Many soccer players are discussing the festival, which sparked a debate on Twitter.
Some fans are having serious discussions while some are doing what Twitter does best, troll everybody involved. It all started with Liverpool FC star soccer player Mohamed Salah posting a pic of him with his family sitting next to a Christmas tree and wishing fans. And he couldn’t have guessed the hot water he would be in.
Salah’s pic generated turbulence on Twitter, and fans started debating. FC Barcelona female forward Asisat Oshoala Tweeted out a question about the celebration of Christmas and it just worked perfectly to tie everything with Mohamed Salah.
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Mohamed Salah celebrating Christmas
While we can make arguments that he was just wishing his fans, many don’t buy that argument as he was sitting next to a Christmas tree. Fans were enraged saying celebrating festivals of other religions is prohibited in Islam. Fans argued that he wasn’t following and responding to the religion.
🌲 #MerryChristmas pic.twitter.com/nTFjuQyvRD
— Mohamed Salah (@MoSalah) December 24, 2022
While we can make arguments from both sides, taking a side in this matter is purely on anybody’s beliefs and how they see rules and if they feel okay. Even Asisat Oshoala posted writing, “Is it a sin for a Muslim to celebrate Christmas?” Here is how Twitter reacted to her question:
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Yes it is haram
Because the Christians believe that Jesus Christ is God while in islam jesus is a prophet of allah {isa}
So if the muslim join in the celebration of the birth of jesus they believe they also accepting him as God
And there is only one God (allah)— KDG☪️ (@DahKkhado) December 25, 2022
We ummas are mistaken this. There’s a diff btw celebrating and wishing them. You can wish them but don’t celebrate with them just like what Mo did!
You can eat their food, ( tho some scholars agree with this with proof and some against with proof)
— Emi ni Igbalode Engineer!💻 (@Igbalodengineer) December 25, 2022
I’m a Muslim my name is Toheeb and I’m always celebrate Xmas
— BUSYBRAIN (@Owolabi11Toheeb) December 25, 2022
After the discussion of her tweet, Salah faced outrage.
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However, the justification of the comments depends on person to person, as many were of the opinion that celebrating holidays is a personal choice.
Salah was even trolled with an Infantino meme
Moving on from the serious discussion, let’s see how fans trolled their way around this. Even though Salah’s celebration invoked religious comments, it quickly turned into something lighthearted as it was made into memes.
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Fans brought up the infamous speech by FIFA boss Gianni Infantino before the World Cup and compared the parallels between him and Salah.
Mo Salah every year on 25th December pic.twitter.com/CyCOYKHsOa
— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) December 25, 2022
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However, Mohamed Salah will be back to action in the Premier League today as Liverpool is facing Aston Villa in the Boxing Day game.
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