Saudi Man Risks Ass To Buy Red Roses
by Mark on 2/13/2005 (3)
| Allah-hoo, Allah-hoo...I'll get some Falafels tonight! | | RIYADH - 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.
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.
Hopeless Rihad Romantic Saleh al-Sayeri laments the strict Arab code
"I just wanted to buy some red roses for my sweety Sahar! Make no mistake, I am a dedicated loyal servent to Mohammed and the Koran, but for God's sakes, a rose is a rose is a rose! I had to risk my ass runnning to and fro about the shops and kiosks in Riyadh just to buy a dozen! One eager youthful mutawwaeen chased me with a scimitar for 3 city blocks, and I have a most disadvantageous scratch on my backside to prove it! Dear God, I am a Muslim, but am I not also a man?!"
Saleh, clutching the dozen red roses like an Opium smuggler, wistfully pondered
"I hope she appreciates these. If you capture my meaning!"
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