Celebrating Valentine's Day in Saudi Arabia
can be tough:
[The] religious police mobilize a few days before February 14, making the rounds of gift and flower shops.It's like something out of
1984. I've been lucky enough to visit Saudi Arabia on a couple of occasions, and it's an intriguing and (for the most part) friendly country, but I can see where observing a Western, ostensibly Christian, holiday celebrating romantic love might be considered a tad radical. Still, when you need to go underground to buy a rose for your valentine, circumventing laws and risking heavy fines and detention - that's true love, baby.