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struggle4progress

(118,281 posts) Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:20 AM Mar 2016

Flying Pride flag outside home gets doctor arrested in Saudi Arabia

TIMOTHY RAWLES - COMMUNITY EDITOR FOR SDGLN
March 28th, 2016

... The doctor claims that he and his kids were shopping online and the colorful banner caught the fancy of one of his children, and he purchased it not knowing what it meant.

The Saudi police .. took the doctor into custody where he explained the misunderstanding.

He was eventually released on bail and the Pride flag was taken down ...

http://www.sdgln.com/news/2016/03/28/flying-pride-flag-outside-home-gets-doctor-arrested-saudi-arabia

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Flying Pride flag outside home gets doctor arrested in Saudi Arabia (Original Post) struggle4progress Mar 2016 OP

Flag of harmony -- unacceptable in S.A. Herman4747 Mar 2016 #1

Someone will soon tell us that Christian's in the US would do the same thing if they could GummyBearz Mar 2016 #2

Herman4747

(1,825 posts)

1. Flag of harmony -- unacceptable in S.A.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:26 AM

Mar 2016

But what is perfectly acceptable is a flag depicting a sword, the Saudi Arabian flag:

GummyBearz

(2,931 posts)

2. Someone will soon tell us that Christian's in the US would do the same thing if they could

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue Mar 29, 2016, 11:34 AM

Mar 2016

Because a hypothetical argument is just as valid as something that literally happened.

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