{"id":15261,"date":"2011-12-29T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=15261"},"modified":"2011-12-29T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T14:41:28","slug":"turkish-imam-thinks-santa-is-dishonest-because-he-comes-down-chimneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/turkish-imam-thinks-santa-is-dishonest-because-he-comes-down-chimneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish imam thinks Santa is dishonest because he comes down chimneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.en.rian.ru\/strange\/20111228\/170538693.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The imam of the Turkish town of Kuzan has issued a warning to Muslims about Santa Claus, who he called a dishonest person, Italy&#8217;s Corriere della Sera wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Imam Suleiman Eniceri said it was suspicious that Santa Claus brings presents into a house by climbing down a chimney or through windows. \u201cIf he was an honest person he would come through the door as we do,\u201d the imam said. The imam cited a passage in the Koran that calls on the faithful to enter houses through doors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least the imam still believes in Santa, although he obviously didn\u2019t receive what he was hoping for this Christmas. Maybe the rocket launcher got stuck in the chimney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The imam of the Turkish town of Kuzan has issued a warning to Muslims about Santa Claus, who he called a dishonest person, Italy&#8217;s Corriere della Sera wrote. Imam Suleiman Eniceri said it was suspicious that Santa Claus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/turkish-imam-thinks-santa-is-dishonest-because-he-comes-down-chimneys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2084,2178],"class_list":["post-15261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-christmas","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}