Saudi authorities seize rainbow toys for promoting homosexuality

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Saudi authorities seize rainbow toys for promoting homosexuality

By David Gritten
BBC News

15 June 2022

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have been seizing rainbow-coloured toys and children's clothing, which they claim encourage homosexuality, state TV says.

An Al-Ekhbariya report showed commerce ministry officials removing a range of items from shops in the capital Riyadh.

They included hair clips, pop-its, t-shirts, hats and pencil cases.

One official said the items "contradict the Islamic faith and public morals, and promote homosexual colours targeting the younger generation".

The commerce ministry tweeted separately that its teams were confiscating "products that contain symbols and signs calling for deviation and contradicting common sense".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61813390

[milestogo]

1. Who knew sexual orientation could be promoted by colors...

What will happen if I look at a rainbow in the sky after the rain?

[SoonerPride]

2. Sounds like Florida

I’m not kidding.

[Ocelot II]

3. What are they going to do about actual rainbows?

I suppose they don't see them very often in that hot, dry climate; maybe they don't know they exist and have nothing to do with anything but the refraction of light, and not sex?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Does the Koran include that story from the Old Testament

about God sending a rainbow to Noah as a promise he would never flood the Earth again?

[Eugene]

5. The Quran has Noah (Nuh) and a flood, but does not mention a rainbow.

The narrative is parallel but different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C5%AB%E1%B8%A5

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. Ahhh. Thank you.

When my son was in preschool in the mid 1980s, all of the little girls in his classes LOVED drawing rainbows. I loved seeing them. Was a bit sorry I didn't have a daughter.