Not Christian, but love, actually

With St Valentine’s Day banned in Saudi and under scrutiny in Kuwait, the Gulf is a tough place for budding Romeos and Juliets. In Saudi, the religious police spend the preceding week cracking down on red rose salesmen; Kuwait’s National Assembly Committee for Monitoring Negative Alien Practices has it eye on what it sees as excessive commercialization.

And they’re doomed to fail.

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