No red roses for Saudi sweethearts on Valentines 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 & women outside of wedlock, the newspaper said.

Saudi Arabia imposes austere from 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.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080211/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_valentine_saudi;_ylt=AjPC6SR_RkuSAKQnR.8wYubtiBIF

Are florists really dens of vice?

I'll have to start going more often if they are.

You'd better be careful of the little prickers...!!!

No matter, whether you decide to tolerate Muslim beliefs and practices, or advocate change to a 'less barbarous' practice of their religion and law, you will encounter opposition.

Given the size of the worlds Muslim and Christian communities, it would seem, the diametric opposition to each others practices is, sooner or later, going to provide the catalyst for the collapse of humanity... Which side do you want to be on?

christian all the way, freedom in other words

and the subject in hand is just stupid, if your from a muslim country chances are strongly, that you'll be a muslim (as if i was gonna say devil worshipper) and they're pretty strict all over most of all the sex side and that wether its the police, their religious leaders or personal preference they rarely have out of marriage relations.