CNN has the story.
The edict to ban Valentine’s Day is enforced by the Saudi Arabian “thought police.”
The virtue and vice squad is a police force of several thousand charged with, among other things, enforcing dress codes and segregating the sexes. Saudi Arabia, which follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism, punishes unrelated women and men who mingle in public.
An example of the virtue and vice squad’s practices, from the above CNN article:
A businesswoman told the Times of London this month that she was detained and strip-searched by the religious police for holding a meeting in a coffee shop with male colleagues.
It sounds to me like the strip search was either a tool to humiliate the business woman or a justifiable way for the Saudi Arabian thought police to see naked female flesh. In either case, such an abuse of power is deplorable. What did they hope to find during a strip search?
Keep in mind these people are our close allies in the middle east. Isn’t (aren’t?) politics grand?
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Guess which Middle Eastern country has the highest number of satellite service subscriptions to the Playboy Channel… *sniff… sniff* Ah yes, I had almost forgotten the pungent tang of hypocrisy.
While I don’t agree with their reasons, I’m all for banning Valentine’s Day.
I love you, Dez.
No. Seriously.