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Red alert: Saudi authorities ban St. Valentine's color
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In an annual crackdown ahead of Cupid's big day, Saudi Arabia's Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has swept through the oil kingdom and ordered florists and gift shops to remove every item of red until Friday, the Saudi Gazette reported today. The Gazette explains the prohibition:
Islamic scholars around the Kingdom such as Sheikh Khaled Al-Dossari preach that celebrating Valentine's Day and other non-Islamic celebrations is a sin. "As Muslims we shouldn't celebrate a non-Muslim celebration especially this one that encourages immoral relations between unmarried men and women," Dossari, a scholar in Islamic Studies and the Shariah, said.
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12-Feb-08 |
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