A Very Zarqawi Christmas

The Post reports on a godless Manhattan Christmas display that has rankled the neighbors:

Slay bells are ringing outside a $3 million brownstone on East 18th Street in Manhattan, where, rather than your typical jolly St. Nick, a skinny, bloody-bearded Santa holds a knife in his left hand and the severed head of a doll — blood gushing from its eye sockets — in the other.

This ’tis-the-season-to be-creepy display — which has drawn no small amount of community ire — can be found in the front yard of Joel Krupnik, 58, and his wife, Mildred Castellanos, 43, who said they are protesting the commercialization of the Yule season.

But lest you assume Manhattanites are anti-Christmas bah humbugs, rest assured that the Post finds several who are outraged — shocked! — at the display:

Krupnik, who dabbles in real estate, said if anyone was offended, they could simply cross the street. Some children have done just that.

Other people have called the cops — only to be told there was nothing they could do. And one woman chased Castellanos down the block, screaming epithets at her.

Outside the home — also decorated with gargoyles, lizards and dragons — there were many who accused the couple of dreaming of a fright Christmas.

“This is like a nightmare before Christmas. These people are possessed,” fumed Laure Levinson, 50. “I thought it was very gory and bloody. Christmas is not supposed to be gory,” said Jimmy Crevier, 9, who was passing by. “It’s bad,” agreed Sean Conlon, 5. “Santa’s face and hair are red — Santa shouldn’t look like that.”

His brother, Ryan, 9, chimed in, “Santa makes toys and he lives in the North Pole. He doesn’t have a haunted house like that.”

“It’s weird,” said Javin Bose, 7, who lives next door.