To Remove Any Items Coloured Scarlet

There's never a moment's rest for the Muttawa, the Saudi religious police. After the Starbucks incident comes this:

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.

Comments

[DaninVan]

Sooo, what about the jewelery shops and goldsmiths...
(not to mention MY fav, Victoria's Secret)