Muslim Guy Celebrating His First Christmas And His Hilarious Observations Goes Viral

Mohammad Hussain is a Muslim who has never celebrated Christmas. Since moving to Canada, he’s always made time to go back to meet his family, but 2020 is different for everyone. Including the fact that he’s going to experience Christmas for the first time, starting from its preparations.

For most people, the preparations, decorations, gift-purchasing, and the tree all come as pretty normal. But for Hussain, it’s such an eye-opener that shows just how much goes into celebrating Christmas. On a Twitter thread, Hussain compiled his observations of the celebration, and people are digging it.

Hussain works as the special assistant for the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Industry. A political staff active on his social media shares on Twitter how he’s getting his first Christmas tree ever. He did not forget to add his ‘anthropological’ views on the event.

There’s a total of eight observations, and he gets a lot of his knowledge from asking his friends in Canada. He points out how the majority of time leading up to Christmas day would be spent putting up the lights and ‘agonizing over the gifts you must buy.’

Also, you can’t stuff your own gifts in your own stocking. But Hussain doesn’t care, and he’ll ‘fake surprise.’

Twitter went viral, receiving over 350k likes and retweeted more than 88k times. Many of the responses come from people who are also not used to the way Canadians do Christmas. Oranges in stockings? That’s unusual!

It is also exciting to watch how people comment on the steps to decorate a tree: is it tinsel, bauble, then lights first? Or should lights go up first?

Another gave a tip on making Christmas more exciting by exchanging gifts.

As an activist, Hussain did not forget to invite people to donate.