Linda, Sandy And Elaine. Your Names Are Blasphemous In Saudi Arabia

[Gromit]

// Saudi Arabia bans 50 ‘blasphemous’ and ‘inappropriate’ children’s names
The list of names contradicting the Kingdom’s ‘religious and cultural norms’ includes several foreign names.

Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said it had ordered a ban on the names because they contradicted the religion or the culture of the Kingdom.

But some of the names on the list do not seem to fit any of the former three categories, leaving the reason for their banning open to speculation.  //

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/10700553/Saudi-bans-50-blasphemous-and-inappropriate-childrens-names.html

Other than the obvious answer, oil, why do we support this extremist regime?

[emmie]

because sadly we need them, and the oil, because without it they would still be riding their camels and eating sheeps eyeballs, and not plaguing the world with their hideous brand of religion

[emmie]

give the women the vote, and get rid of the blokes, perhaps that might loosen things up a bit.

from your linkNovember 2013

The grand mufti of Saudi Arabia said a ban on women driving in the conservative Gulf state protects society from "evil", in remarks published in the press on Thursday.

Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, in a speech delivered Wednesday in the western city of Medina, said the issue of giving women the right to drive should not be "one of society's major concerns".

The kingdom's most senior cleric called for "the matter to be considered from the perspective of protecting society from evil" which, according to him, included letting women drive.

His comments came as activists said they had been assured by Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef that authorities were reassessing the controversial Saudi ban on women drivers.

[Peter Pedant]

Do we know what they are gonna to the kids who already have these names ?

A few bible names occur in the Koran - but I note Miriam isnt out and neither is the alternative of Gabriel - xabra-eel.

Binjamiin is in.

Crazy

[anotheoldgit]

Surprised at 'Sandy' being banned seeing where Saudi is located.

[jno]

they probably think it'd be taking the ***, aog, like calling a British child Overcast With Wind.

[Hymie]

I know that the French had a system whereby a child could only be given ‘approved’ first names from an official list – so such a name as ‘Moon-unit’ would not have been permitted.

I don’t know whether this system is still in place, but if it is, such a restriction does not appear to bother the French.

[sandyRoe]

You could see why my name would be considered inappropriate. Most of Saudi is Sandy and it must be wrong to call a child after something that everybody walks on.
Here in the UK no child would really be happy to be called,'Pavement'.

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// Here in the UK no child would really be happy to be called,'Pavement'. ///

No, their name would be 'MUD' if they did.

[jno]

they mightn't mind being called Jimmy Choo, though. But perhaps not Uggs.

[sandyRoe]

Choo or Uggs? They'd be putting their foot in it to burden kids with names like that. Over the last few damp months Wellington seems somehow fitting as a surname

[ToraToraTora]

well you've changed your tune!

[Gromit]

Oh divebuddy,

You are so naughty and gonna be in lots of trouble :-)

[ludwig]

They probably sound naughty in arabic. A bit like mustafa poopoo does in English.