Video - France Friday Sermon: Muslims Are Forbidden to Celebrate Christmas and New Year's Eve

In a sermon delivered in Grande Mosquée d'Echirolles à Grenoble, Sheik Younes Laaboudi Laghzawi said that Muslims were forbidden to emulate the Christians and should not celebrate their holidays. "The scholars... are in consensus that it is forbidden to celebrate Christmas or New Year's Eve," he said. The sermon was posted on the Internet on December 25, 2014.