Saudis celebrate "Valentines" ... and red rose stores are witnessing a boom

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Red roses and balloons decorate the gift shops and flowers on the occasion of "Valentines", in a scene not familiar in Saudi Arabia before.

The gift shop workers say they notice a significant increase in sweets, flowers and other gifts of red color in the days and weeks leading up to February 14.

Muhammad Zuabi, an employee in a gift shop in Riyadh, said, “Before, I mean, from about ten years or more, we were not able to sell anything in red with this today, on Valentine's Day, we would not download anything, we would remove it permanently, even if it was before it was necessary. Pickle.

Currently, praise be to God, for those who followed the years or two that they went through, the past, there is a demand, in which there is a civilized openness on this issue, in which there is an acceptance of the matter from society.

We have an increase in sales today.

We are awake, we are waiting for this day in the year until it becomes a movement for us, and we have a job, thank God.

The former head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Ahmad Al-Ghamdi said in a media interview in 2018 that Muslims may celebrate February 14th.

Since then, many Saudis have celebrated this occasion.

“We are coming today to the rose shop. I’m getting roses for my friends, and a red rose, on the occasion of Valentine's Day,” said Ibtisam Hamdan when she went to buy roses from a flower shop. “For me, I am an expression of feelings that means friendship, love. To my girlfriends and all those who love them ».

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