Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

No Valentine's: Saudi religious police see red
One News Now ^ | February 14, 2010 | Associated Press

Posted on 02/15/2010 5:12:19 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia has launched a nationwide crackdown on stores selling items that are red or otherwise allude to the banned celebration of Valentine's Day.

A Saudi official says the feared religious police are inspecting shops for red roses, heart-shaped products or gifts wrapped in red, and ordering storeowners to get rid of them.

Red-colored or heart-shaped items are legal at other times of the year, but as Feb. 14 nears they become contraband in Saudi Arabia...

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianity; clerics; extremists; holidays; islam; islamists; islamofascism; islamofascists; landofnofun; middleeast; mideast; moslems; muslims; nofun; oppression; police; policestate; religionofpeace; religiouspolice; rop; roses; saudiarabia; saudis; sharia; shariah; stvalentine; trop; valentinesday; wahhabi; wahhabism; wahhabists

1 posted on 02/15/2010 5:12:19 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I think except for North Korea, Saudi Arabia has to be the most totaltarian state in the world.


2 posted on 02/15/2010 5:14:32 PM PST by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They can't have my RED STAPLER! They said I could have my stapler......
3 posted on 02/15/2010 5:16:18 PM PST by jakerobins
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Because the Unholy Qur’an is the constitution of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.


4 posted on 02/15/2010 5:16:23 PM PST by myknowledge (F-22 Raptor: World's Largest Distributor of Sukhoi parts!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You don’t bring me flowers, anymore...


5 posted on 02/15/2010 5:16:49 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: C19fan

Shhh, don’t say that the Muslim religion is totalitarian. Remember how Pat Robertson got in trouble for saying that.


6 posted on 02/15/2010 5:17:42 PM PST by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

7 posted on 02/15/2010 5:20:14 PM PST by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
......the feared religious police are inspecting shops for red roses, heart-shaped products......

That's understandable.......
Islam is a religion without a heart.......
Of course they'd hate St Valentine's day and hearts and what not......

8 posted on 02/15/2010 5:23:13 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No red flowers for you!


9 posted on 02/15/2010 5:30:05 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Saudi Arabia: the official Land of No Fun (TM).


10 posted on 02/15/2010 5:31:34 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Does this mean they will stop supporting homicide bombers, decapitations, and amputations for a month? After all, human blood was red, the last time I heard.


11 posted on 02/15/2010 5:33:16 PM PST by hellbender
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

No last-minute gifts.

We should toss korans in the toilet for ramadan until they relent.


12 posted on 02/15/2010 5:36:03 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (IN A SMALL TENT WE JUST STAND CLOSER! * IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

And some in the US don’t get that this is the kind of life they want to inflict upon us.


13 posted on 02/15/2010 5:48:51 PM PST by fatnotlazy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Saudi Arabia: free beating and interrogation with student ID.


14 posted on 02/15/2010 5:55:15 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I am Ellie Light.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

All humans are people. But not all people are human.


15 posted on 02/15/2010 6:01:52 PM PST by BigCinBigD (')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: garjog

As Bob Wills used to day...”Man after my own heart(With a razor)!”


16 posted on 02/15/2010 6:20:42 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Don't touch my ..Shoulder, Pork and Ham!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Why do we as individuals keep propping up this regime?

We express our (justified) disgust at these barbarians here in this forum, yet every time we put gas in our car we’re financially supporting them. We’re voting with our pocketbooks in favor of the islamic totalitarian state.

I for one will keep telling them to go pound sand every time I get on my bicycle to commute to/from work, to the grocery store, visit friends, etc.


17 posted on 02/15/2010 7:42:01 PM PST by AussieJoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AussieJoe

“I for one will keep telling them to go pound sand every time I get on my bicycle to commute to/from work, to the grocery store, visit friends, etc.”

That is a start, but very insignificant. The food delivered to the grocery store that you pedal to arrives on trucks, not bicycles. The whole food chain from farm to store is energy intensive and depends on oil. As much as we would like to be independent from foreign oil, we are nowhere near it.


18 posted on 02/16/2010 1:20:11 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson