Those who do, they either don’t care about or don’t know about it. Also, I or any of the Muslim I know from family/friends, call non-Muslims as ‘filthy kuffar’. We call them by their proper names and we find it disrespectful and offending to label someone as such. Quran prohibits us to do so in the following verse
The Noble Qur'an - Al-Hujurat 49:11
“O ye who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others: It may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): Nor let some women laugh at others: It may be that the (latter are better than the (former): Nor defame nor be sarcastic to each other, nor call each other by (offensive) nicknames: Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed: And those who do not desist are (indeed) doing wrong”
Zatang, that verse is adressed at believers ("O ye who believe", and the use of "each other"), and never adresses the issue of derogatory terms towards unbelievers. That is further indicated by "Ill-seeming is a name connoting wickedness, (to be used of one) after he has believed" - ill seeming when used of one "after he has believed". So your statement "Quran prohibits us to do so in the following verse" isn't supported by the verse you cite here. Thus, while you personnaly don't condomne the behavior, you have done nothing to prove the Qur'an is against it.
Isn't it stereotyping ? I came here because of the commonality of prohibition of celebrating birthdays in faith of JW and in Islam.
For reference, the reason JW don't celebrate birthdays is not religious. The reason is that, as for all fondamentalists, the religion is about controlling others, and control need suppression of individuality. Birthdays is a way to tell a kid he's important, and you're happy he's been born. This goes against fondamentalists' objectives, because it gives self-confidence to kids, and somebody that grows in a nurturing and asserting environment is less inclined to accept indoctrination without questioning it.
That control issue is the base to the multitude of rules fondamentalist exhibit - unlike fundamentalists God is not a puny insecure being that would feel threatened because, somewhere, some kid's cake has tiny candles over it, and somehow thousands of years ago in a small contry nobody cares about some shepherds followed a ritual that could be misconstructed to ressemble the candles thing. Birthdays today have nothing to do with pagan worship, and any decent look would show that weddings, wedding aniversaries, new babies, etc ..., all things you said you would agree with, are mared with plenty of things you could link to some pagan practice somewhere in history.
Trust us, we've been there, done that, got the fondamentalist T-Shirt, and were used to defend the birthday ban with your same arguments.