Ironic.
This is the United Arab Emirates:
And this is France:
Muslims like political commentator Ahmed Sharif Al-Ameri understand how ironic this is.
You'd have to go back more than 600 years, beyond the founding of the Kingdom of Francia, to find a pagan France. The first Frankish king, Clovis I, converted to Christianity along with 3,000 of his men. Three hundred years later, the united Franks became the Carolingian Empire led by Charlemagne, the first time since the fall of Rome that Western Europe began to exert serious political power again on the world stage. So deeply was Charlemagne's faith integrated into his rule that his domain was referred to as "Imperium Christianum," or "Christian Empire."
His descendants don't seem to have the same backbone.
Air France is not alone.
Many Muslims see Santa Claus and Christmas trees as pagan idols, and no Muslim celebrates the birth of Jesus as the savior of the world.
But even Muslims, who believe in a different, non-historical Jesus Christ, understand that Christmas is a time for Christians to celebrate Christ.
(Or, at the very least, they understand that they have the chance to dunk on their market competitors who are stuck with soulless marketing circa 1995.)
What a time to be alive.
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