{"id":31225,"date":"2012-12-28T13:18:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=31225"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T11:18:51","slug":"heres-islamic-tolerance-saudi-arabia-religious-police-arrest-people-celebrating-christmas-middle-east-news-31225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/heres-islamic-tolerance-saudi-arabia-religious-police-arrest-people-celebrating-christmas-middle-east-news-31225\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Islamic tolerance ! Saudi Arabia religious police arrest people celebrating Christmas \/ Middle East News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mutawat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31238\" title=\"mutawat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mutawat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mutawat.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mutawat-280x209.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/mutawat-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>The religious police in Saudi Arabia have raided a house in the Al Jawf Province and arrested 41 people, who were \u201cplotting to celebrate Christmas,\u201d a police statement said.<\/h1>\n<p>The police said that the detainees were Christian guests of an Asian diplomat, reports the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar.<\/p>\n<p>There were also a Saudi Arabian and an Egyptian, both Muslims, present at the gathering. The police account says the host and the two Muslim guests were \u201cseverely intoxicated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether or not the people detained in the Wednesday night raid were released or face further prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia outlaws any religious practice except those in line with a strict version of Sunni Islam, the state religion in the theocratic monarchy. The authorities usually turn a blind eye to private ceremonies, but this policy is neither set in law nor observed at all times.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cvirtue and vice\u201d police, which enforce religious norms in the country, regularly launch crackdowns on Christians and Hindus living in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The attitude is encouraged by religious leaders, who justify the persecutions. Saudi Arabia&#8217;s head mufti Sheikh Abdel Aziz bin Abdullah had previously condemned \u201cinvitations to Christmas or wedding celebrations,\u201d the newspaper says.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The religious police in Saudi Arabia have raided a house in the Al Jawf Province and arrested 41 people, who were \u201cplotting to celebrate Christmas,\u201d a police statement said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,14],"tags":[42356,42355,42358,42354,8366,42350,42360,77159,42357,9030,17274,42352,42353,42362,3469,42351],"class_list":["post-31225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-41-people-arrested","tag-al-jawf-province","tag-celebrate-christmas-saudi-arabia","tag-christmas-saudi-arabia","tag-human-rights","tag-islamic-tolerance","tag-islamic-tolerance-saudi-arabia","tag-middle-east","tag-plotting-celebrate-christmas","tag-police","tag-religion","tag-religius-police","tag-religius-police-people-celebrating-christmas","tag-saudi","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-arabia-islamic-tolerance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}