Saudi Arabia's morality police are on the scent of illicit red roses as part of a clampdown on would-be St Valentine's lovers in the strict Muslim kingdom.These are our so-called allies...like France, they stink...bad....
The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Saudi Arabia's powerful religious vigilantes, have banned shops from selling any red flowers in the run-up to February 14.
Florists say the move is part of an annual campaign by the committee -- whose members are known as "mutawwaeen" or volunteers -- to prevent Saudis marking a festival they believe flouts their austere doctrine of "Wahhabi" Islam.
Wahhabi...it's Arabic for Islamofascist...
Mark's Remarks
While I agree that this committee and the Wahabi sect of Islam is not good, that they are repressive closeminded people, I do not think that we can label all Saudis as stinking. While I agree with what I believe Matt's real premise is, that the Saudis are not doing enough in the war on Terror and are still monarchs who rule through authoritarian edicts, I still think they are people we can work with. They are instituting reforms, albeit slowly. They are coming on board more and more with being against the Wahabis. Granted, it is at a slower pace than many would like, but it is coming. I don't think it wise to label them in the same category as France.
2/15 Update
MATT: Mark is correct. I'm not saying that the Saudi people are smelly. I'm saying that the Saudi government are not the allies they claim to be, nor the allies that our government and media make them out to be... In that sense, they are exactly like France...but with the smelly reference, I can see how one might get confused.2/16 Update
This guy has got some nerve. The point, dude, wasn't to insult France, they do that well enough on their own, but rather to point out that Saudi Arabia is an "ally" like France supposedly is...that is, they aren't. How's about a little context, man...Get me my Freedom Fries, dude...if you can manage it...
