The sale of red roses and red gifts has been banned by Saudi Arabia’s religious police in the run-up to Valentine’s Day.
Officials from the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice warned flower and gift shops to remove all red items, including roses and wrapping paper, from their shelves…
In Riyadh, the ban came into force on Sunday and will remain until after February 14.
The authorities believe celebrating Valentine’s Day is un-Islamic and encourages relations out of wedlock, which are strictly forbidden.
At least they’re consistent. Right?
And 1000’s of ex-pat husbands cheer.
I wish we’d do that here. I hate the holidays that were created just to sell you crap.
More muslim non-sense. Keep up idiots…eventually the rest of civilized world will stop caring about your barbaric traditions and beliefs.
#1, #2 – you guys are about as romantic as a stone.
They only thing red that Muslims approve of is blood.
It’s a holiday made up by corporations. Who cares. If I want to buy my SO something I will do it on my own terms and not with prompting from a bunch of corps.
The Catholic Church tried to get rid of the holiday because it didn’t pay. Valentine’s Day has been celebrated as a symbol of romantic love since the 14th Century. A few weeks longer than Hallmark Cards.
And a few of you curmudgeons.
More idiotic Muslim bashing. Last time I checked, Christians were also psychotic about pre-marital sex.
ALL religion is a mental illness.
And coming from a country that invented belly-dancing.
We only allow signs of hatred and violence here in saudi arabia.
Is it me, or is there this MASSIVE influx of rules and people listening to the rules as of late? I don’t remember hearing about any of this in the 90’s
What a bunch of party poopers.
… every party needs a pooper. Thats why we invited you….
It really tells you something about religion that it upholds virtue by resorting to force and coercion.
Well it is SAINT VALENTINE’s DAY, so why would the Arabs want to promote a Christian Holiday ?
And silently Khashoggi weeps on his private jet en route for brunch with presidential hopefuls.
#4
Actually, men are more romantic than women; probably because heterosexual men have to invest A TON OF EFFORT AND MONEY to get some.
Women on the other hand only have to spread their legs and put on a sign saying “Holiday Inn.”
I think we should spend a few million from the Iraq war budget to buy some red roses. We could fly a dozen planes over Saudi Arabia and drop them on civilians. Imagine the sexcapades?
Jim D said:
“Well it is SAINT VALENTINE’s DAY, so why would the Arabs want to promote a Christian Holiday ?”
Uh-Oh. I always thought it was named after the Massacre.
Corporations (as it were) didn’t “make up” any holiday, they simply exploit public sentiment over existing ones.