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The super-rich ruler who stones gays, now bans Christmas: Sultan of Brunei threatens [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 21, 2015 | Imogen Calderwood

Posted on 12/21/2015 11:09:34 AM PST by C19fan

Lighting candles, putting up decorations and even wearing Santa hats will be off the cards in Brunei this Christmas – with offenders threatened with up to five years in jail. The tiny oil-rich nation has banned the public celebrating of Christmas, following concern that it will affect the faith of its Muslims. Any Muslims caught celebrating Christmas, and non-Muslims who are discovered organising celebrations, could face the lengthy prison sentence.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: brunei; christmas; islam; muslims; muslimworld; royals
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Supposedly Brunei was one of those "moderate" Muslim countries.
1 posted on 12/21/2015 11:09:34 AM PST by C19fan
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Wow a TRUE disciple of the prophet Muhammed. Allah be praised, and may his sword have a lot of weight to chop off many heads.


2 posted on 12/21/2015 11:10:56 AM PST by rovenstinez
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"concern that it will affect the faith of its Muslims"

It must be pretty weak then. Which is why it is so overly defensive to the point of being overtly offensive.
3 posted on 12/21/2015 11:12:14 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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If you have ever seen the ending of “Taken”, this is how the Sultan of Brunei operates.
It will never be covered because of all the actresses from Hollywood who have gotten an “$ invite $” from the Sultan.

Bill Clinton is up to his whatever with the Sultan.


4 posted on 12/21/2015 11:15:48 AM PST by Zathras
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Dude looks like Emperor Shaddam the 4th from dune (1984).


5 posted on 12/21/2015 11:17:05 AM PST by the_individual2014
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It’s a cryin’ shame we don’t have an unlimited supply of neutron warheads. Oil for the taking and millions less muslims...


6 posted on 12/21/2015 11:19:34 AM PST by W. (Make that rubble BOUNCE!)
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Supposedly Brunei was one of those "moderate" Muslim countries.

What little I've heard about Brunei suggests otherwise.I've spent some time in Dubai,for example,and it seems like a comparatively reasonable moslem country.Certainly not as bad as Saudi Arabia or Iran.

7 posted on 12/21/2015 11:21:23 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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Looks like there’s room for the Sultan in the DemocRAT Party.


8 posted on 12/21/2015 11:29:12 AM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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So the Sultan of Brunei is a gay stoner? Fits right in with 0bama’s crowd!


9 posted on 12/21/2015 11:42:38 AM PST by W. (Make that rubble BOUNCE!)
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“Supposedly Brunei was one of those “moderate” Muslim countries.”

It used to be, but the Sultan has been getting increasingly religiously conservative in his older age (69).

It is an absolute monarchy, so the Sultan’s every whim is law.

I wonder if some islamic Rasputin has gained influence over his thinking, if he is tightening up sharia as part of foreign relations with Gulf Arab monarchies, or if it is just his own evolution, as his sex drive fades away.

Regardless of his dictatorial religious tightening, the current Sultan is the last competent one in the family - all of his likely successors are dim bulbs.

Brunei is a clean place, with little crime and no beggars or homeless - but it is dull. Dubai however, is like the Vegas or Sin City of the Arab world. They even have a tiny section of town, like a red light district (only smaller), where a few churches are allowed (without crosses, towers, spires, or anything like that of course).


10 posted on 12/21/2015 11:43:12 AM PST by BeauBo
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11 posted on 12/21/2015 11:46:03 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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So US Public Schools have something in common with the Sultan.


12 posted on 12/21/2015 11:46:14 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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Impose immediate and absolute immigration ban on all Bruneians and cut off all trade.


13 posted on 12/21/2015 11:55:01 AM PST by Steelfish
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One area of sharia where the Sultan has varied with doctrine, has been his public education campaign against the kind of inbreeding found in islam, which has so affected his own family.

Prince Sufri of Brunei:

14 posted on 12/21/2015 12:06:49 PM PST by BeauBo
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Now this guy almost resembles Baron Vladmir Harkonnen.


15 posted on 12/21/2015 12:09:49 PM PST by the_individual2014
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How does this guy shave???????


16 posted on 12/21/2015 12:13:53 PM PST by Boonie ("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
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Supposedly Brunei was one of those "moderate" Muslim countries.

Since when?

17 posted on 12/21/2015 12:20:45 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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Ban Christmas?!? I DON'T THINK SO!!!

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18 posted on 12/21/2015 12:32:07 PM PST by mkjessup (Trump is kicking the ass of the GOPe, RINOs & the media. Don't like him? He must be kicking YOUR ass)
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Brunei is a zit on the face of the earth. Needs an application of an effective zit-remover. About 20 kilotons ought to do it.


19 posted on 12/21/2015 12:33:53 PM PST by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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Darn it... I wanted to move there and put my millions of lights on my house at Christmas. I guess I won’t move there...


20 posted on 12/21/2015 12:58:37 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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