Roses are red, violets are blue, Saudi Arabian vice thugs are pathetic and hateful cretins. What, that's not how the poem goes?

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... It is not unusual for the Saudi vice squad to clamp down ahead of Valentine's Day... Saudi Arabia imposes an austere form of Sunni Islam which prevents unrelated men and women from mixing, bans women from driving and demands that women wear a headscarf and a cloak.

They're so pathological that they're banning colors because they remind them too much of love. So yeah, a literary renaissance and a Sunni Shakespeare are probably just around the corner.

References:
* No red roses for Saudi sweethearts on Valentines Day [Reuters]

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* Hey Gals, Check This Out - You're Too Dirty To Walk On Saudi Arabia's Sidewalks
* Hey Gals, Check This Out - If You Sit With Your Fiance In The Park, Iranian Police May Have To Strangle You To Death
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