Finally providing an answer to the age-old stoners’ controversy: it turns out that you can in fact determine whether the “red” that you see is the “red” that I see. Just check whether Saudi morality thugs have destroyed it yet:
As Feb. 14 approaches, the police begin inspecting gift shops for items that are red or are intended as gifts to mark the holiday — a celebration of St. Valentine, a 3rd century Christian martyr — which is banned in Saudi Arabia. Such items are legal at other times of the year, but as Valentine’s Day nears they become contraband. At best, shops caught selling Valentine’s gifts are ordered to get rid of them. Some salesmen have been detained for days.
The Valentine’s Day prohibition is in line with the ascetic Wahhabi school of Islam that the kingdom follows. Marking Christian holidays is banned in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and a country where non-Muslims are banned from openly practicing their religion… Teachers remind students they must not mark the festival, and girls are warned against wearing anything red.…
And salesmen urge shoppers to snap up their gifts early because no one knows when the religious police will begin their rounds. “My colleague spent a night in jail last year because of the color red,” said one salesman, who insisted on anonymity, fearing his colleague’s fate.
I’m surprised these cretins found time for this and for lashing and jailing pregnant gang-rape victims…
A Saudi judge has ordered a woman should be jailed for a year and receive 100 lashes after she was gang-raped, it was claimed last night. The 23-year-old woman, who became pregnant after her ordeal, was reportedly assaulted after accepting a lift from a man. He took her to a house to the east of the city of Jeddah where she was attacked by him and four of his friends throughout the night. She later discovered she was pregnant and made a desperate attempt to get an abortion at the King Fahd Hospital for Armed Forces… [The judge] ruled she had committed adultery – despite not even being married – and handed down a year’s prison sentence, which she will serve in a prison just outside the city. She is still pregnant and will be flogged once she has had the child.
… and for physically expelling women from college fairs and for legalizing the sexual enslavement of 10 year old girls. Plus they’ve carved out time to produce anti-woman bumper stickers. They even have group bowling outings!
Who says that pathological fanaticism is deadening?
References and previously after the jump…
References:
* Religious police break hearts in Saudi Arabia [AP]
* Saudi judge sentences pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes for committing adultery [Mail Online]
* Saudi Vice, episode 24: Wild college women [Elder]
* Report: Senior Saudi cleric OKs girls to marry [JPost]
* Saudi bumper stickers say no to women driving [Al Arabiya]
* SAUDI ARABIA: Let’s take the morality police bowling [Babylon and Beyond / LAT]
Previously:
* Hey Gals, Check This Out – Saudi Arabia Too Busy At Annapolis To Stop Their Wahhabist Judiciary From Lashing Gang Rape Victim 200 Times
* Hey Gals, Check This Out – Saudi Arabia Outlawing The Color Red Because You Can’t Keep Your Hands To Yourselves
* Hey Gals, Check This Out – In Saudi Arabia You Can Be Sold As A One Year Old Bride But You Can’t Get Divorced Till After Puberty
