Ten things banned in Saudi Arabia

Selling or wearing anything red on Valentines Day

• The usual reasoning for banning anything red on Valentines Day is to discourage people from celebrating it (as it is not an Islamic occasion and it may lead people astray) and to prevent people dating or from having any contact outside marriage. Any girl that shows up to school with a hint of red is barred from entry and is sent home to change whatever it is that is red.

The mixing of sexes at malls and restaurants

• In a mall McDonalds for example, there would be two separate lines for men and women. In a standalone McDonalds restaurant, however, there are two completely segregated sections so the men on their own would not mingle at all with the women and men on the other side.

Movie theaters

• The usual reason given for banning them is that they allow for men and women to mingle unsupervised, leading to possible immoral actions outside the realm of marriage.

Music classes in public schools

• The general attitude for many religious people is that music is forbidden; malls and stores do not have music playing through speakers in order not to offend religious customers.Because of this attitude, schools and universities do not teach music (curricula have to follow Islamic law). Islamic classes have lessons outwardly proclaiming that music is forbidden.

Gyms and sports for women

• For a while, private gyms for women were allowed to operate until the Religious Police decided to close them down for good. In girls schools and universities, there are no gym classes or sports teams, and therefore there are no professional womens teams.

Bibles

• The Bible in Saudi Arabia may get a person killed, arrested, or deported. In September 1993, Sadeq Mallallah, 23, was beheaded in Qateef on a charge of apostasy for owning a Bible. It is against the law for non-Muslims to worship in public in Saudi Arabia and there are no houses of worship to cater to non-Muslims.

Cats and Dogs

• Saudi Arabias religious police have banned selling pet cats and dogs and walking them in public places in the countrys capital Riyadh to preserve public morals.

Jews

• Until March 1, 2004, the official government website stated that Jews were forbidden from entering the country. Saudi officials deny there was ever any such ban in practice however visas from Israeli passport holders are routinely denied.

Women traveling without permission

• Over in Saudi Arabia, women cannot travel alone without a specific form or an electronic authorization. This ban is only lifted when a woman turns 45. A good proportion of society views freedom of mobility for women as something that could lead to immorality and thus strictly forbid women in their home from leaving the house, let alone the country.

Women driving

• The main arguments for preventing women from driving are that it may cause women to leave their houses more often than they need to (which is frowned upon); they may have interactions with unrelated males and the need to uncover their faces.

http://listverse.com/2012/11/12/top-10-everyday-things-banned-in-saudi-arabia/

Cool story.

Bro.

Women driving

PWSteal_Ldpinch

this should be the case in every country.

Time to make a glass crater. lonewolf604

I was like wtf crazy people until I saw the last one. They might be on to something.

Well, sounds like a pretty sh*tty backwards country, not much else to really say.

Saudi Arabia is full of sh*t.

What was the point of this?

Time to make a glass crater. lonewolf604

That would kill the innocent too.

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]Time to make a glass crater. Inconsistancy

That would kill the innocent too.

Win some, lose some.

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]

[QUOTE="lonewolf604"]Time to make a glass crater. Primordialous

That would kill the innocent too.

Win some, lose some.

That's disgusting.

yes, Saudi has a lot of stupid and inane laws. and almost everyone on here knows of most of them.

so what was the point of this? a Public service announcement?

[QUOTE="Primordialous"]

[QUOTE="Inconsistancy"]

That would kill the innocent too.

Inconsistancy

Win some, lose some.

That's disgusting.

I admit, that was pretty bad.

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

No movie theaters?

Outrageous!

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

MakeMeaSammitch

changes are happening, slight but they are. oil isn't enough to bankroll everything anymore. increasingly young people can't find jobs, 2 years ago in Jeddah there was a job posting for firefighters, they got over 700 applications ranging from no education and no experience to people with master's degree's, and this happens all over the place. land is locked up by the royal family (this is the pressure cooker that NEEDS to be let go and soon) by wealthy monarchs and land barons, some land property in my hometown in Al-Khobar cost more then places in and near downtown Tokyo which is outrageous.

Those pressure's, along the globalization, are going to increasingly speed Saudi along, and it's going to cause social problems within. increasingly so in the future.

Also the McDonalds bit is blown out. going to the malls there, yes they got two seperate lines "gentlemen" and "family" (which means family and women). Turns out no one follows those rules. It really usually only becomes a problem when A) the religious police show up (i am no fan of them at all), and B) some guys start harassing the girls, either just being jerkwads or don't know how to talk to women (by product of having the sexes separated in this way).

oil was both a boon and a curse to the country. in my own fathers life time (born in 1962) the country has gone from no roads, no electric grid, no water system, to a country of 25 million people and growing with - for the most part - modern cities and utilities.

where Saudi fails horribly is the civil rights (kinda hard with absolute monarchy), and dealing with corruption (again absolute monarchy).

Saudi Arabia is banned in Saudi Arabia

What a dumb religion.Jebus213

Saudi Arabia is banned in Saudi Arabia

wis3boi

this made me lol

Saudi Clerics "Running out of day-to-day things to ban"

[QUOTE="wis3boi"]

Saudi Arabia is banned in Saudi Arabia

SaudiFury

this made me lol

Saudi Clerics "Running out of day-to-day things to ban"

ha! :lol:

So pork and alchoholic beverage are not on the list? ...... I went to saudi twice and the airport security love to ransack female's bag of cloth and touch their pantieshippiesanta

you need to see a doctor

Oneday all of the US talk show hosts who are currently content to overlook these facets of Saudi Arabian culture will decide (in unison, no less) that it's suddenly become obligatory to condemn them vociferously and relentelessly.

Then, as if from nowhere, an unelected "government in exile" will emerge in the US or Europe and its representatives' faces will grace US and European television screens night after night, relating terrible tales of the atrocities committed by the House of Saud.

And a brand new generation of American dimwits will froth at the mouth whenever Saudi Arabia is mentioned, just as yesterday's ones did whenever Iraq was mentioned and just as today's ones do whenever Iran is mentioned.

Again, imperialism will don the mantle of liberation and off to the Gulf the aircraft carriers will sail ...

[QUOTE="MakeMeaSammitch"]

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

SaudiFury

changes are happening, slight but they are. oil isn't enough to bankroll everything anymore. increasingly young people can't find jobs, 2 years ago in Jeddah there was a job posting for firefighters, they got over 700 applications ranging from no education and no experience to people with master's degree's, and this happens all over the place. land is locked up by the royal family (this is the pressure cooker that NEEDS to be let go and soon) by wealthy monarchs and land barons, some land property in my hometown in Al-Khobar cost more then places in and near downtown Tokyo which is outrageous.

Those pressure's, along the globalization, are going to increasingly speed Saudi along, and it's going to cause social problems within. increasingly so in the future.

Also the McDonalds bit is blown out. going to the malls there, yes they got two seperate lines "gentlemen" and "family" (which means family and women). Turns out no one follows those rules. It really usually only becomes a problem when A) the religious police show up (i am no fan of them at all), and B) some guys start harassing the girls, either just being jerkwads or don't know how to talk to women (by product of having the sexes separated in this way).

oil was both a boon and a curse to the country. in my own fathers life time (born in 1962) the country has gone from no roads, no electric grid, no water system, to a country of 25 million people and growing with - for the most part - modern cities and utilities.

where Saudi fails horribly is the civil rights (kinda hard with absolute monarchy), and dealing with corruption (again absolute monarchy).

The funny part of the whole thing is that the people at the top get to do all the things they themselves banned.

[QUOTE="SaudiFury"]

[QUOTE="MakeMeaSammitch"]

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

Zaibach

changes are happening, slight but they are. oil isn't enough to bankroll everything anymore. increasingly young people can't find jobs, 2 years ago in Jeddah there was a job posting for firefighters, they got over 700 applications ranging from no education and no experience to people with master's degree's, and this happens all over the place. land is locked up by the royal family (this is the pressure cooker that NEEDS to be let go and soon) by wealthy monarchs and land barons, some land property in my hometown in Al-Khobar cost more then places in and near downtown Tokyo which is outrageous.

Those pressure's, along the globalization, are going to increasingly speed Saudi along, and it's going to cause social problems within. increasingly so in the future.

Also the McDonalds bit is blown out. going to the malls there, yes they got two seperate lines "gentlemen" and "family" (which means family and women). Turns out no one follows those rules. It really usually only becomes a problem when A) the religious police show up (i am no fan of them at all), and B) some guys start harassing the girls, either just being jerkwads or don't know how to talk to women (by product of having the sexes separated in this way).

oil was both a boon and a curse to the country. in my own fathers life time (born in 1962) the country has gone from no roads, no electric grid, no water system, to a country of 25 million people and growing with - for the most part - modern cities and utilities.

where Saudi fails horribly is the civil rights (kinda hard with absolute monarchy), and dealing with corruption (again absolute monarchy).

The funny part of the whole thing is that the people at the top get to do all the things they themselves banned.

[QUOTE="hippiesanta"]So pork and alchoholic beverage are not on the list? ...... I went to saudi twice and the airport security love to ransack female's bag of cloth and touch their pantieswis3boi

you need to see a doctor

The muslim males there are so insecure about themselves. Lonelynight

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

MakeMeaSammitch

[QUOTE="MakeMeaSammitch"]

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

GrayF0X786

[QUOTE="GrayF0X786"]

[QUOTE="MakeMeaSammitch"]

I pray for the day that country runs out of oil and it collapses from the inside out.

It will be hilarious.

Seriously, what a bunch of backwards monkeys.

themajormayor

Duh! We all know women are terrible drivers...

World is a crazy place though.

sad

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="GrayF0X786"] it pretty clear who is backwards when we have posts like this.

GrayF0X786

I bet you support those monkeys.

boo hoo I made a mean comment, that's just as bad as killing women who choose to dress themselves rather than the government. I'lll continue to hope our oil independence comes sooner than later so that whole region can just collapse and we'll all be better for it..

God damn you're backwards fox.