Wow, I was surprised at this event. Jordanians gather to celebrate the lighting of the 26-meter tree, alleged to be the largest Christmas tree in the Middle East, in the Christian town of Fuheis, out side of Amman, Jordan, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009.
Jordanians are celebrating something different this holiday season — the lighting of what is said to be the tallest Christmas tree in the Middle East.
Members of Jordan's royal family on Thursday lit the 85-foot-tall (26-meter-tall) artificial pine tree adorned with red and gold ornaments in the predominantly Christian city of Fuhais in western Jordan.
Hundreds of Jordanians, including Muslim women in head scarves, gathered under the tree to sing Christmas carols. They watched teenagers in Santa Claus costumes dancing.
Christians make up 4 percent of Jordan's 6 million people.
I guess that political correctness and the ACLU have not infiltrated Jordan yet. Muslim women singing Christmas carols
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