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02-13-08, 04:23 AM #1
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Red roses banned in Saudi Arabia ahead of Valentine's Day
Saudi Arabia's religious police have banned red roses ahead of Valentine's Day, forcing couples in the conservative Muslim nation to think of new ways to show their love.
The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has ordered florists and gift shop owners in the capital Riyadh to remove any items coloured scarlet, which is widely seen as symbolising love, newspapers said.
"They visited us last night," the Saudi Gazette quoted an unidentified florist as saying.
It is not unusual for the Saudi vice squad to clamp down ahead of Valentine's Day, which it sees as encouraging relations between men and women outside of wedlock, the newspaper said.
Saudi Arabia imposes an austere form of Sunni Islam which prevents unrelated men and women from mixing, bans women from driving and demands that women wear a headscarf and a cloak.
Relations outside marriage are strictly banned and punishable by law.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/200802...b7e5c6f_1.html
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02-13-08, 06:51 AM #2
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Glad I don't live there!
Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way" ~Martin Luther King, Jr
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02-13-08, 10:43 AM #3
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Roses? Banned? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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02-13-08, 12:31 PM #4
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Ahh, the religion of peace, love and understanding.
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