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it’s still something quite controversial in Saudi Arabia. Any non-Islamic holiday is not permitted to be publicly celebrated.

Since rising to power, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reduced the influence of notorious religious and morality police forces which enforced strict codes on ordinary people in Saudi Arabia.

To recall, the Saudi government had earlier constituted a religious police force, the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. The force was made to enforce the moral codes.