Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Feb 11th 2008, 2:01 pm
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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)
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Keywords: VALENTINE/SAUDI
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
Feb 11th 2008, 2:25 pm
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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
MM, xx
Feb 11th 2008, 4:45 pm
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Sounds the kind of Valentines I'll be having this year
Feb 11th 2008, 4:50 pm
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Valentines Day is the biggest conspiracy attacking the modern world schemed by Gulf Greetings in Deira City Centre...
Feb 15th 2008, 10:50 am
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Damn . . . . They'd banned the roses so he had to buy me gold instead . . 
Feb 15th 2008, 12:48 pm
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Re: Valentines Day - Saudi style........
Hadn't thought about diamonds . . . . . Will have to have words with him . . .
Feb 15th 2008, 12:50 pm
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Feb 15th 2008, 12:54 pm
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Feb 15th 2008, 12:56 pm
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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 . . . .
Feb 15th 2008, 12:57 pm
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You are all miserable b#stards!!
Valentines day is lovely!.....i bet you all run around telling children theres no santa too!!
Valentines day is lovely!.....i bet you all run around telling children theres no santa too!!
Feb 15th 2008, 12:59 pm
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