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Islamic Tolerance Alert - Brunei Cancel Christmas

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Reply 20

username1854431

Original post by Captain Haddock

The Sultan of Brunei just got crossed off my Christmas card list.

But he still got invited to the royal wedding cos you know....

...oil.

Reply 21

BaconandSauce

Looks like Somalia has now done this as well as well as Tajikistan

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/23/christmas-banned-somalia-tajikistan-brunei

Reply 22

thunder_chunky

Hardly surprising. I guess that's one place Santa can ignore.

Reply 23

HucktheForde

Brunei is a hypocrite. The sultan presents himself like some divine saint like holier than thou god, while his son party, drink, sleep with women like nobody's business. If a commoner does it the punishment would be lashes, stoning. And yet they are in the TPP, and I thought TPP are only for countries with good human right record they said. Bullocks.

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Reply 24

Party Hard

So will all you liberals be calling them fascists? racists? bigots?

Reply 25

Ruh

Christmas is hardly even a Christian festival anyway, so what does it matter that they don't commemorate the pagan winter solstice by exchanging gifts and worshipping the commercialised and bastardised festival which people call 'Christmas'?

Reply 26

Ascend

Original post by Ruh

Christmas is hardly even a Christian festival anyway, so what does it matter that they ~~don't~~ aren't allowed to commemorate the pagan winter solstice by exchanging gifts and worshipping the commercialised and bastardised festival which people call 'Christmas'?

Corrected.

Christmas is as pagan in origin and bastardised as the Ramadan fast and the Kaaba rituals yet we should respect Christians', Muslims' and indeed Pagans' rights to practice such relatively harmless events. Even the commercialisation and further bastardisation of Christmas in the more secular countries doesn't take away this right.

Oh and Merry Christmas.

Reply 27

BaconandSauce

Original post by Ruh

Ah! it's like islams holidays and practices then

But no matter its pagan roots it's a religious holiday for some.

But a good example of empathy there from a fellow believer.

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 28

40to1

Islamic tolerance for you

Don't care at all.

Original post by Vikingninja

Don't care at all.

Of course you wouldn't muhammed

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Reply 31

skunkboy

Original post by BaconandSauce

This isn't Rome and the Christians are already there.

and that's not US or UK. you are supposed to obey their laws. you want to become an outlaw? if you are not happy about that, just get your ass out of that country.