The Saudi's Say: "Happy Valentine" You'all !

"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. ..." - C&F