Brunei Officially Bans Future Christmas Celebrations

[Vanyali]

You using normal or US date there? ( is it august or January?)

They're referencing Dec. 27th stuff, so Jan makes more sense.

[Kithelle]

And Hillary Clinton wants to bring Sharia Law to America...vote for Hillary is a vote for the death of Christmas!

Infracted

[Damajin]

It's their own country, them deciding how they want it run is their business. Vote with your feet if you don't like it in Brunei.

[Kokolums]

This just means Santa can visit my house a little earlier this year by skipping Brunei!

[AwkwardSquirtle]

People keep being "but it's 2015". It's amusing to me that in the Islamic World it literally isn't. They measure their calendars from when Muhammad left Mecca, a significant event in their religion's history, so it's more like 1437 by their calendars.

[Cyberowl]

And Hillary Clinton wants to bring Sharia Law to America...vote for Hillary is a vote for the death of Christmas!

Where do you even get those levels of bullshit from?

[Underverse]

People keep being "but it's 2015". It's amusing to me that in the Islamic World it literally isn't. They measure their calendars from when Muhammad left Mecca, a significant event in their religion's history, so it's more like 1437 by their calendars.

And their cultural values reflect that.

[oplawlz]

It's their own country, them deciding how they want it run is their business. Vote with your feet if you don't like it in Brunei.

That's not how human rights work.

[Deleted]

This doesn't make any sense. Santa Claus is not a religious icon. Heck, you can even say that Christmas itself was hijacked and turned from a christian holiday into a capitalist one.

But then again... Brunei is an Conservative Islamic country so there is no surprise that logic is incompatible with their society.

[Cyberowl]

This doesn't make any sense. Santa Claus is not a religious icon. Heck, you can even say that Christmas itself was hijacked and turned from a christian holiday into a capitalist one.

But then again... Brunei is an Conservative Islamic country so there is no surprise that logic is incompatible with their society.

You can even say Christmas was hijacked and turned into a Christian holiday!

[Magistrate]

I am being sarcastic. Because look at all the "Islam" lead nations. Now the more moderate south asian ones are starting to stone and decapitate people.

Truly a religion of peace and tolerance.

It depends on what is taken out of it. The majority of the religion does not advocate terrorism, just like the majority of Christianity does not but, in its past, has done similar things in law for various nations, among other things.

Any religion can be turned into this. Any faction can be twisted into a terroristic regime to give power to the few.

[Underverse]

It depends on what is taken out of it. The majority of the religion does not advocate terrorism, just like the majority of Christianity does not but, in its past, has done similar things in law for various nations, among other things.

Any religion can be turned into this. Any faction can be twisted into a terroristic regime to give power to the few.

Yes, but some tools are better than others.

[Powerogue]

I actually learned that certain christians (I think it was the really uptight puritans) did the same thing because they thought the celebrations borrowed too much from the pagans.

It's still rather silly. At this point it's not even recognizable as a religious holiday outside of church.

It's their own country, them deciding how they want it run is their business. Vote with your feet if you don't like it in Brunei.

That's rather hard to do when you get murdered if you try to flee Islam.

[Rennadrel]

This doesn't make any sense. Santa Claus is not a religious icon. Heck, you can even say that Christmas itself was hijacked and turned from a christian holiday into a capitalist one.

But then again... Brunei is an Conservative Islamic country so there is no surprise that logic is incompatible with their society.

Well, technically he is in a sense. Christmas has less to do with Santa and more to do with the birth of Jesus Christ though. Saint Nicholas was an actual Saint from Ireland though.

[Kraenen]

But guys, it's the current year!

That's true. Stating the current year is a good argument.

[StaeleAilar]

Religion of Peace.

Peaceful farmers, peaceful farmers.

It's getting pretty out of hand in a lot of places now. Quite scary really.

[NoRest4Wicked]

I hear Obama is doing this next.

[Ghostpanther]

It is their country and we are not the world police so let them run their country the way that their people see fit.

I agree with this. Besides, they do not have a Constitution I am sure which guarantees them freedom of religion. So what should we expect from such a country?