Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs

[Costa__]

RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.

Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict.

He said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital, Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz, adding that it follows an old edict issued by the supreme council of Saudi scholars.

The reason behind reinforcing the edict now was a rising fashion among some men using pets in public to make passes on women and disturb families, he said, without giving more details.

Othman said that the commission has instructed its offices in the capital to tell pet shops "to stop selling cats and dogs

The 5,000-strong religious police oversees the adherence to Wahabism -- a strict version of Sunni Islam, which also forces women to cover from head to toe when in public, and bans them from driving

[Costa__]

WHATS NEXT THEY WILL BAN

[The_Emperior5]

Black arabs

[Umu Sacdiya]

Black arabs

do they exist?

yes they are found in Somaliland and are called ISAAQ

[The_Emperior5]

no actually i was takin the piss on Costa laakin imaad fahmin istupidh

[Costa__]

IDIOT SHE TOLD YOU THE TRUTH ARAB WANNABEE

[The_Emperior5]

costa eygaagii la galli meysiid sacuudiiga laakin adigu uun ya ey ku moodin

[Gatspy]

Saudis? walk dogs? wtf

[SomaliZone]

ALL SOMALIS ARE ORIGANALY ARAB

[djibsomali]

ONLY THOSE WHO ARE SEEKING ICTIRAAF TO THEIR JINSIAYAAD CLAIM TO BE FROM ARAB.

I am pure somali a race on his own.
and i love our prophet mohamed more than a stupid saudi who rape woman in makkah.

[Enlightened~Sista]

Gatspy..whats so repulsive about walking dogs

[Costa__]

Gatspy..whats so repulsive about walking dogs

Now they will start to attack you allover again

you asking for trouble young lady

[Hyperactive]

when i read 2 days ago i laughed.
because we have 7 cats, my father has it.
i was thinking to sell one of our 7 cats to make a money out f it.

[Madd_Scientist_]

I would love to move to Saudi, a muslim country! I pray to Allah that He makes my imaan stronger and forgive me for my sins. Inshallah, may Allah grant me this wish.