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Valentines Day - Saudi style........
15:00 11Feb08 RTRS-No red roses for Saudi sweethearts on Valentines Day
RIYADH, Feb 11 (Reuters) - 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. (Reporting by Souhail Karam; Editing by Giles Elgood) (([email protected], +966 1 463 2603; Reuters Messaging: [email protected])) Keywords: VALENTINE/SAUDI |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
i read this...good on em...i think red roses are tacky at the best of times, but they are a bleedin rip off on valentines day!
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Sounds the kind of Valentines I'll be having this year:o
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Valentines Day is the biggest conspiracy attacking the modern world schemed by Gulf Greetings in Deira City Centre...
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Confucius
(Post 5917396)
Valentines Day is the biggest conspiracy attacking the modern world schemed by Gulf Greetings in Deira City Centre...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Damn . . . . They'd banned the roses so he had to buy me gold instead . . :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by Nic1
(Post 5936383)
Damn . . . . They'd banned the roses so he had to buy me gold instead . . :thumbsup:
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Hadn't thought about diamonds . . . . . Will have to have words with him . . .
:) |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Nic1
(Post 5936769)
Hadn't thought about diamonds . . . . . Will have to have words with him . . .
:)
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936761)
gold and not diamonds...you poor deprived child...
MM, xx |
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Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5936777)
That's another man's life you've just ruined, MM....
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
(Post 5936780)
err...the men in my life love me...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Actually, the initial comment was very tongue in cheek . . . Who cares if Saudi bans the sale of red roses on Valentines day ? But diamonds would be nice . . . .
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
You are all miserable b#stards!!
Valentines day is lovely!.....i bet you all run around telling children theres no santa too!!:p |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by shakh your bootie
(Post 5936795)
I'm talking about the detritus of poor beasts that you left howling along the road...
MM, xx |
Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Originally Posted by MissDemeanor
(Post 5936802)
You are all miserable b#stards!!
Valentines day is lovely!.....i bet you all run around telling children theres no santa too!!:pat' MM, xx |
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