Saudi Police Storm Home and Arrest 41 People for…’Plotting to Celebrate Christmas’
A crowd looks at the nativity scene in the centre of Ljubljana during year-end festivities and celebrations for the upcoming new year on December 27, 2012. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
The next time you complain about having to get together with your “crazy” family for Christmas, remember this story.
Forty-one apparent Christians and two Saudi Arabian and Egyptian Muslims were recently arrested in Saudi Arabia after authorities busted a party by a reported Asian diplomat. Their crime? “Plotting to celebrate Christmas,” reports the outlet Al-Akhbar.
The outlet has more:
The guests were said to have been referred to the “respective authorities.” It is unclear whether or not they have been released since.
The kingdom, which only recognizes Islamic faith and practice, has in the past banned public Christmas celebrations, but is ambiguous about festivities staged in private quarters.
Saudi religious police are known to detain residents of the kingdom at whim, citing loose interpretations of Sharia and public statements by hardline religious leaders to justify crackdowns.
Saudi Arabia’s head mufti Sheikh Abdel Aziz bin Abdullah had previously condemned “invitations to Christmas or wedding celebrations.”
A member of the Higher Council of Islamic scholars in Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Mohammed al-Othaimin recently prohibited sending holiday wishes to “heretics” on Christmas or other religious Christian holidays.
Gives you more to be thankful for, doesn’t it?
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ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:34pmChristian and Jews; just keep ignoring the Muslim Brotherhood and the up and coming New World order, the Caliphate. This is being brought about by the Unholy Trinity; BO, HAJI HILLARY and PANETTA. So keep the idea in your heads that this couldn’t possibly happen here in America. Well It is happening before your eyes. Time to Wake up and smell the Rotting Government we have given our selves.
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The_Pointy_End
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 3:04pm80% of American’s 2100 mosques have received funds from Saudi Arabia. Remember, Islamic centers go into a community quietly, then slowly push its political (sharia) agendas as well as Islamic agendas for the USA. Just ask Dearborn Michigan.
http://features.pewforum.org/muslim/controversies-over-mosque-and-islamic-centers-across-the-us.html
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Mulder1
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 4:03pmSo much for Muslim tolerance. Islam is a religion of war as its founder, Muhammad, was a warlord.
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dbrockjohnson
Posted on December 29, 2012 at 9:15pmDead on!!!!!!!!!! Obama is jealous he can’t do that to us gun clinging Christians yet. The writing is on the freaking wall if the people would just pay attention!!!
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:26pmAmerica should cut off all funds going to Muslim countries.
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The_Pointy_End
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:38pmAmerica should cut of Saudi funds coming to America to build mosques.
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:24pmWith Obama as President, we Americans will soon have to celebrate Christmas in secret.
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schroeder123
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:09pmWhen in Rome… Do as the Romans do.
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Elena2010
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:37pmOnly when Rome is not demonic in how it exercises governance. When it becomes demonic, it’s time to rebel and fight back. It’s the difference betw Paul’s letter to the Romans and John’s Apocalypse (commonly known as the book of Revelation).
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Just in time
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:12pmIt is amazing, the amount of restraint that must have taken. To just stand there and take that kind of abuse.
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Elena2010
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:50pmNot when you consider that the religious police came w/regular police who came armed to the teeth.
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garbagecanlogic
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:38amKeep on pujmping that gas from saudia arabia. They are coming our way and going to try to influence our way of life – many are already hear. Look in Michigan.
Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
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Elena2010
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:52pmMost of our petrol comes fm non-Mideastern sources: Mexico, Canada, Venezuela plus our own.
The EU and Japan depend on Mideastern sources.
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RaydocX
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:29amObama wishes he had this sort of power.
Hence the push to take our firearms.
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Marsh626
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:23amLet’s send them more of our oil money, sell them more advanced weaponary and keep allowing their citizens to have easy immigration access to our country…
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SOUNDTHETRUMPET
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 11:00amThis is just another communist country
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Elena2010
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 1:57pmNot really, Dictatorial, but in no means communist. It’s an absolute monarchy much like European feudal kings. Those who are “middle class” are in some kind of merchant activity rather than heavy manufacturing which is nearly non-existent in KSA. There is some light manufacturing but the labor is typically ex-pats fm the Philippines, Pakistan, and the like. In the desert, you will still see nomadic herders of camels and long-haired goats.
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Centralsville
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:53amGive liberals more time in this country and they will do the same thing.
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Earnyourkeep
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:33amSAUDI POLICE STORM HOME AND ARREST 41 PEOPLE FOR…’PLOTTING TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS’- If liberals get their way, soon the headline will be – AMERICAN POLICE STORM HOME AND ARREST 41 PEOPLE FOR…’PLOTTING TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS’
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spirited
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:29amChristmas decorations are self-reporting.
>May the lights never go out.
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LameLiberals
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:46amWhy are Americans DYING and SPENDING TRILLIONS to fight ENDLESS wars in the Middle East when the Middle East is a Muslim cesspool which treats women and children and Christians like pigs?
Answer: OIL.
The USA is OWNED/OPERATED by global oil companies who fill the campaign coffers of RINOs and all democrats who then claim “we are doing our Christian duty helping the world” including the Middle East while wrapping the message in an American flag.
And the stupid drooling idiot RINO SHEEP on the right and the left fall for it every time.
And the stupid drooling idiot Liberal global warming believing SHEEP go along with it because they refuse to drill inside the USA – better for the Middle East with a terrible environment record to destroy their own lands drilling. Besides, the drooling liberals hate the USA and they like the fact the Middle East does also.
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BigBadBob2490
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 12:12pmOil, yes, but it’s also been a curiosity to me that both Vietnam and Afghanistan wars coincided with a billion-dollar-a-year jump in heroin trade. HOW, exactly, does a billion dollars of opium get shipped out of Afghanistan in the middle of a hundred thousand troops? Just sayin’.
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2dogs
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:27amTime to move !!!!!!!!!
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:15amIts a holiday made pagan. Like Helloween & Easter. Big woop. Secular drunken china presents day. It’s time to call it what it is. Be honest, not big liars. Tell the truth for once to kids, the like truth. A twisted weird evil world, it gets bad so easily. Smile, we are broke.
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woodyee
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:30amNo matter how bad things are, it is just pure evil to wantonly strip kids of their childhoods and or hope. MY grandchildren know what Christmas is truly about – do yours? If not, why not? Anybody?
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hillbillyinny
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:35amActually, the celebration of the earthly birth of a person integral to a religion is not a “made up event” to many! It may not meet your taste, but we really don’t care what you choose (other than be concerned for you “in the end”).
Whether or not that HISTORICAL birth occurred on a particular day or not isn’t important. Many of us who are old had grandparents who didn’t know the exact date of their birth, and my father’s birth wasn’t registered until five days later than when he was born–his mother died at his birth in the flu epidemic of 1918. There were so many people dieing that special “emergency hospitals were set up by the Navy in large barracks where they lived. They probably though my father would die too. When they did register his birth they used the current day, not the day he was born!
Stop telling others where they may or may not believe, and get a life!
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Elena2010
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:05pmJust being Christian in KSA is a capital offense. Possessing a Bible will get you killed.
When I was there for Gulf War I, I gave a Filipino a cross and a Bible. He was more thrilled than had he hit the PowerBall jackpot. He ran both out to his vehicle, tucked under his outer clothing for fear some Arab would see what he had. He wrapped them up and hid them under the driver’s seat once he got them out to his car.
Saudi Christians, and yes there are some, are spiritually starved for Bibles and opportunities to worship with fellow Christians. For most of their lives, they are forced to hide their faith in the deepest of shadows, esp fm family.
You cannot understand what Christians in muslim countries go thru to 1) survive, 2) share faith, 3) hold firm in faith. Until you’ve been there and seen it for yourself, please do not call their celebration of the nativity on 25 Dec a pagan holiday remade. These are THE martyrs under the Altar!
Those persecuted for the sake of Jesus are more deeply in love with Jesus that the non-persecuted could ever be. Do NOT put them down. You will have to explain your words and actions to the Lord Himself one day.
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Wigglypoff
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 4:46pmElena
I don’t think he is calling the nativity scenes and things about Christ pagan. I beleuve he is referring to Santa Claus and the materialism that Christmas has become. For Easter it is the Easter bunny taking the place of Christ. I’m sorry but Santa claus(as much as I like the notion) is a pagan figure created by athiests. Here’s how it goes: introduce Santa Claus, Easter bunny and tooth fairy. Tell your kids they are real(at the same time your saying Christ is real; another being you can not feel with any of your 5 senses). Then one day they hear or figure out that all of them are fake. It is an attack on Christianity. So the recent ads by athiests are we don’t beleuve in mythical creatures and we also don’t beleuve in the Easter bunny, Santa clause or mermaids. This is the paganism uc nature I believe he is inferring. Halloween; well it is pagan.
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Satellite309
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:03amAvi Lipkin says that Obama is a Muslim spy :
http://atlah.org/2011/04/12/dr-manning-interviews-avi-lipkin-of-israel/
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:11amSATELLITE309, As much as I would agree with Avi, now you have baited THE_JERK to jump in with his anti-Semitic rhetoric to fill this page now.
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woodyee
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:57amto Vaman –
Wrong. There is VERY MUCH a war on Christians and Christianity here. It’s just that too many look upon it as you do, isolated instances. But when those isolated instances have the backing of draconian law, drawn from the foul misinterpretation of the Founders intent, there is much cause to worry. A law signed in Washington DC, or a decision of the Supreme Court in Washington DC has the same power in California.
Christians and Jews need to beware, because historical precedent exists of the consequences of looking at these incidents as “isolated”. Muslims need not fear – the media and press FEARS speaking ill of them, and their sharia has gained quite a foothold – to wit – Dearborn, Michigan.
See here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJBW49afzg
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:46am.
I bet Obama is taking notes for next years “War on Christmas”………….
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RIGHTHOOK
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:57amThe war on Christmas is already alive and well here. Starts innocently enough with being PC and neutralizing December 25th as a “Holiday Celebration”. The raids will occur down the road.
So Happy Holiday’s and Seasons Greetings……
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vaman
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:39amNow there is your war on christmas, which does not exist here. Cops don’t’ raid homes or churches stopping ceremonies in this country. Once in a great while you can’t put a nativity scene on public property. Get over it because this story shows an actual, real, authentic and bona fide attack on a Christmas.
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MsMarylou8
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:44amOnce in a great while? They do it every chance they get. There’s your beginning to what happens there.
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EM2T93
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:55amVAMAN…
Don’t kid yourself…Christians face regulatory assaults on our religious freedoms. From Federal attacks like Obamacare, to little twit city councils wielding permit powers…don’t forget the man whose house was invaded by several police and firefighters, in front of his wife and children, and who was eventually arrested and jailed for 30 days for having…(wait for it)…a church without a permit in his backyard.
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stablepar
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:50amnot yet. when is the only question…not who, what, where, why.
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hillbillyinny
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:33amI believe it will visit us here in the U.S., probably not “next year,” but we are moving toward the severe persecution of FAITH.
The “New Evangelization” of the Catholic Church is getting each who understand their faith ready to practice as a “persecuted church” as occurs throughout the Middle East and in China! We will need to bring others to God’s saving knowledge, we will need to pray, educate and support each other as the true brothers and sisters in faith.
The humanists, socialists, communists, and muslims will align to push down the Judeo/Christian faiths of LOVE, hoping to wipe it out.
Remember Jesus said, “I will be with you to the END OF TIME”! We are called to witness, pray, and look up. His second coming will be glorious and may many come to the saving knowledge of His plan of Salvation.
Remember, today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents–the babies slaughtered by a mad man at the time of Jesus’ birth.
Maranatha, alleluia!
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liltexasgal
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:32amA cause worth dying for.
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vaman
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:40amLess talk, more action. Let us know how your crusade is going.
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hillbillyinny
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:05am@ vaman
Actually, the word “crusade” has many uses! The various evangelical “crusades” have brought many to the saving knowledge of the Word without any bloodshed.
Remember Billy Graham’s life work through “crusades” throughout the world, while he prays for us in his old age to carry on the Gospel (Good News of Jesus Christ).
Help those in need, share the Gospel through action, and bring others to faith.
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 9:09amVAMAN, Having read your posts here, along with your profile page, I get the feeling that it is you who is telling the big lie here, and it is the likes of you who is on a crusade. Nice try at that Obi Wan Kanobie “These are not the droids you’re looking for” trick. It doesn’t work on us all.
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Elena2010
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 2:26pmVAMAN — the jihad to conquer Europe was a crusade that was eventually met w/force that was dubbed “THE CRUSADES.”
When the muslim hordes were turned back at Tours in France, the jihadis looked for new ways to stomp on Christians. They turned to Mohammad’s favorite form of recreation — caravan raiding! Muslims took Christian pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land and killed them, raped them, enslaved them (fm which we get the term Slav), held them for ransom, and robbed them. Pope Urban II then called for Christian knights to fight back and push the muslims fm the Holy Land that had been Christian since Constantine until the Arab hordes came out of Arabia killing, enslaving, raping, and robbing after Mohammad’s death. A Greek and Aramaic speaking world was destroyed w/an Arab culture taking over empty spaces and turning the few remaining Christian and Jewish souls into dhimmi.
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skippy6
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:29amSuch a tolerant Country….Are you sure this wasn’t in Israel??
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hillbillyinny
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:24amNo, @ “skippy” (used to be my pet garter snake’s name!),
This didn’t and WOULDN’T happen in Israel!!! If you worked on learning truth, you might find out that Israel is not only very TOLERANT to their Muslim neighbors, but many close neighbors work IN ISRAEL, and pray that other Middle Easterners will not ruin the goodness that is extended by Israel.
I realize that the concept of a group of peoples being owners of land into perpetualty is “strange thinking” for those who solve everything by fighting, but the “johnny come lately” group of people being held CAPTIVE in camps and restricted areas, not by Israel, but by the countries who want to use these people to fight their fights and as shields and decoys.
Jews and Christians react to persecution if necessary for survival, many are martyred rather than raise a had against their attackers.
Good try, no prize!
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bikerdogred1
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:27amWOW,what a peaceful religion,these people are to much,they kill their own people and say no bigMM deal,they are living in the stone age.MERRY CHRISTMAS ALL YOU MUSLIMS and you to obama.
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Nunyunuwi
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:40ambe nice, obama’s thought police at the direction of his buddies the muslim brotherhood in the white house, just might come pay you a visit, as obama loves his NDAA power to do just what the Saudi gov just did… pick you up for no reason but offending him…holding you indefinitely….boo
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starman70
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:27amAnother action from the “Religion of Peace”. Intolerance and persecution are its hallmarks.
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poorrichard09
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:21amWith all the God and Christ haters in the US these days, watch for this to happen here next year!
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DougHuffman
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:26amI cannot think of a better reason to die.
Do you want to live in that Godless Obamanation? I don’t. “From my cold, dead hands” works for me.
Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn know-nothings, progressives.
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breakobamanow
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 8:41amI don’t know that it will happen in the next year but I do know it will happen. Jesus told us it would and to be ready. I am ready to die for Christs sake, because I know my true reward is not on this earth. May God have mercy on as many who would call upon his name and repent of their transgressions, desiring the knowledge and wisdom that comes by grace through faith. That he die so we might live.
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