Here's the problem Ahmed: you know that celebrating Christmas for Muslims is haram and only permitted if the intention is to deceive the enemy Crusader-Zionist hosts. And what better way for you to show that you are an assimilated, moderate Muslim family than to give Christmas gifts to your children?

Like every good al Qaeda parent you want your child to be happy this holiday season but you are also on a tight budget, what with the high prices for ammonium nitrate, electronic wire, detonators, etc.

We here at Planck's Constant are not unsympathetic to your plight and so we offer some gift ideas using materials you already have, spent electronic wire. We know that careful disposing of short pieces of wire after making a good improvised explosive device is critical in making sure you are not found out by busybody government agents sifting through your garbage.

So don't throw away that wire. You can now bring back the ancient Arabic custom of making toys from common household objects, a practice that has long fallen into desuetude.

Here are images [photos courtesy of Saudi Arabia Gov art website] of toys you can make with what the infidels normally call evidence.