So why is it urgently necessary for every store clerk in America to say "Merry Christmas," and for "Happy Holidays" to be banned?

Because, as Don Feder explains at FrontPage magazine, saying "Happy Holidays" is the first step on a slippery slope to the Holocaust:

...The secular left wants to extinguish God-based morality. The only way to do that is to drive Christianity underground. Hence, the War on Christianity. Hence, the War on Christmas.

...That's why, Jews -- as Jews -- must oppose revisionist efforts to deny our nation's Christian heritage, must stand against the drive to decouple our laws from Judeo-Christian ethics and must counter attacks on public expressions of the religion of most Americans -- Christianity.

Jews are safer in a Christian America than in a secular America (or Europe).

Look at the fate of Jews in post-Christian Europe.

Stephen Steinlight, former director of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, says there are an average of 12 assaults a day on Parisian Jews -- comparable to Nazi attacks on Jews in the dying days of the Weimar Republic. In recent years, synagogues, Jewish day schools and kosher restaurants have been targeted by Europeans of the jihad persuasion.

So obviously there's going to be another Holocaust here if we stop saying "Merry Christmas," or if there aren't creches on public property in every town in the land.

And not only a Holocaust -- a Holocaust led by Muslim Nazi Communist Hollywood liberals!

In a commentary in the October 17th Jerusalem Post, David Meyer (a French-born rabbi serving a synagogue in Brussels) writes: "I am frightened not just by the anti-Semitism (resurgent in Europe) but by the collective European response of indifference and appeasement. Today, Europe worships compromise. It is 'fanatical' in its non-violence. It is a Europe that, in the face of Islamist fanaticism, is ready to stay silent."

Nature abhors a spiritual vacuum. In a Europe where churches are empty, mosques are filling and new ones are being built every day.

...The principal threats to Jews in the mid-20th century were creeds which which sought to replace God with secular ideologies, based on evolutionary race theory or a maniacal class consciousness.

While Christmas isn't part of my religion, I'm all for public acknowledgements of a religious holiday celebrated by 95% of the American people.

What's the alternative -- an America dominated by the twisted theories of Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, Michael Moore and George Clooney? Instead of the red and green of Christmas, how about an America where burka black is the dominant color?

So, what do you prefer to say: "Merry Christmas"? "Workers of the world unite?" Or "Allah Akbar"?

There's your future, then -- a tyrannical Godless America presided over by baseball-cap-wearing Comrade Michael bin Schicklgruber! And all because you didn't tell the H.R. department at work, "I refuse to attend the company 'holiday' party, cursed infidel! I celebrate Christmas!"