Saudi Arabia bans teddy bears

The Saudi Wahhabis reach a whole new level of insanity.

From: The Jerusalem Post (www,jpost.com)

Dec. 17, 2003
Saudi Arabia bans cuddly toys
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia



Saudi Arabia has banned the importation of female dolls and teddy bears, giving merchants three months to dispose of such stock, a state-guided newspaper reported Wednesday.

Interior Minister Prince Nayef ordered the ban which was relayed around the country by the national Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Al-Riyadh said.

The daily gave no reason for the ban, which could not be confirmed with government officials Wednesday.

The ban singled out stuffed-animal toys and dolls of brides. It made no mention of male dolls and it was not clear if these were banned as well.

The order also prohibited the importation of crucifixes and models of Buddha, the newspaper said.

The ban comes at a time when Saudi Arabia appears to be taking steps toward moderation and limited reform. The kingdom came under heavy criticism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States as 15 of the 19 hijackers involved were Saudis. Critics charged that the country's conservative interpretation of Islam had helped produce militants.

The government subsequently gave directives to mosque preachers, amended religious textbooks and promised local elections - a first for a country that has no parliament.

 

Hahahhahahhaha.
Well i guess it is their right, what i don´t get is why.
Poor children cannot play with cute teddybears.

 

If they catch you with a teddy bear to they cut your cuddle off?

 

What's elections worth when you can't have a teddy bear. :cry:

 

Hmm...maybe they're afraid of being bombed. Those things are perfect and inconspicuous ways to carry around a bomb.

 

Teddy bears are used to carry drugs.

I remember i had seen a advertisement about this in the past.

A female gave to a male lover a teddybear to carry and left.

The male was caught in the airport and the stuffed teddybear had drugs inside.

The ad was finished with this .

Never carry anything through the customs for anybody else.

 

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_71 ... s.quirkies

Well in Texas other things are fobriden.

 

Yeah, i think i read somewhere that you cant own more than four dildos in the state of texas. If you own five you get fined. It also used to be a misdemeanor to be a homosexual.

OH! And their public schools are fucking awul. I was a victim of those once. Lets just say the only times a teacher ever intervened with me getting mercilessly picked on by everyone in my gym class was when I'd get into a fight over someone slamming my head into a pole during a basketball game, or someone was going around telling people i slept with my mother. Of course, even if i was defending myself from attack i'd be punished due to their no tolerance policy on fighting. This was all enabled by the fact that there were something like 300 kids in a gym class and 2500 kids in a middle school that only had 3 grades. Also, the whole school was one two story building and we werent allowed to carry back packs because people had been smothered by them in the hallways, even though we changed classes in cycles, so as to avoid rioting/overcrowding.

And guess who the governor was at the time?

BTW, this is a school for a middle/upper middle class area. George Bush doesnt even take care of his white bretheren anymore. May be the neglect was because our school actually had more than 20 african kids going to it...

actualy that wasnt really an issue, they dont have money for schools because executions are so damned costly and they have something like 100 death rowe court cases a year.

So yeah, fuck the bush's.

 

Yeah, it's actually illegal to practice religions other than Islam in Saudia Arabia. They actually have religious police whose only job is to track down illegal ceremonies. You can't have the word Christ anywhere (so Christian Dior becomes Cristian Dior) and there are no changing rooms for women in department stores, so you have to buy clothes without knowing whether it fits or not. Oh yeah, women aren't allowed to drive either.

 

Its ok though, they're friendly to our oil companies, so you can take you anarchist aussie lies and shove them up your ass! :lol:

 

Maybe they just dont like Teddy roosevelt, the inspiration of the teddy bear. Plus i dont like teddy bears, unless a stuffed ewok dolls counts as one.

 

Or maybe they are just affraid that the teddy bears will rise and secure power.

 

Or maybe they, like most other decidedly religious organizations, are simply abandoning all semblance of logic an defying proven methods in favor of appeasing an unproven god.

 

WHoa WHoa, can you say that in laymans terms. I cant tell if you believe or dont believe in God.

 

Osama ben Teddy- thats why they banned the teddy bear.

 

I never said if I did or not, but I can paraphrase. They don't know if God exists, they believe he does. They actually know other things, like it would be far more efficient to use those police for something useful, or that allowing teddy bears would help their economy. They are using uncorroborated beliefs to counter proven fact, and it is incredibly stupid. You're personal beliefs about God don't even really come into play; the fact is that no one knows if God really exists so how can your mere belief in him stand up against scientific facts and evidence?

 

You know, I have a better idea - DON'T FUCKING GRAVEDIG!