Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Saudi Arabian 'Valentine's Day crackdown'

Religious police in Saudi Arabia ban "red items" as part of Valentine's Day crackdown.
Saudi authorities consider Valentine's Day, along with a host of other annual celebrations, as un-Islamic.
But the people will have their romance!
"Sometimes we deliver the bouquets in the middle of the night or early morning, to avoid suspicion," one florist said.
Only in a backward thinking, totalitarian regime would that make sense.