‘Offensive’ cake mocking Saudi religious police gets baker in trouble

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Cake was decorated as an open truck driven by a woman and transporting women while being chased by the religious police. (Photo courtesy: Gulf News)

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

The picture of a cake decorated as an open truck driven by a woman and transporting women while being chased by the religious police has sparked controversy in Saudi Arabia.

The cake, which was requested by a female client, was considered as denigrating Saudi Arabia’s religious police force, known as the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive.

The pastry shop which sold the dessert said it fired the employee who conceptualized the controversial cake and expressed its apologies regarding the incident.

“It was an individual act by an employee who prepared the cake as requested by a female client,” Omar Sa’adeddine, the board member of Sa’adeddine Sweets said, according to Gulf News.

“The company was not involved and we conducted a probe that resulted in firing the man who made it [the cake] and the employee who took the picture,” he said.

“We are fully committed to our religion and values and we fully reject the slightest attempt to denigrate the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” Sa’adeddine said.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/06/04/In-a-mix-Offensive-cake-gets-baker-in-trouble-in-Saudi-Arabia-.html

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Cake was decorated as an open truck driven by a woman and transporting women while being chased by the religious police. (Photo courtesy: Gulf News)

By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News

Wednesday, 4 June 2014

The picture of a cake decorated as an open truck driven by a woman and transporting women while being chased by the religious police has sparked controversy in Saudi Arabia.

The cake, which was requested by a female client, was considered as denigrating Saudi Arabia’s religious police force, known as the Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

In Saudi Arabia, women are not allowed to drive.

The pastry shop which sold the dessert said it fired the employee who conceptualized the controversial cake and expressed its apologies regarding the incident.

“It was an individual act by an employee who prepared the cake as requested by a female client,” Omar Sa’adeddine, the board member of Sa’adeddine Sweets said, according to Gulf News.

“The company was not involved and we conducted a probe that resulted in firing the man who made it [the cake] and the employee who took the picture,” he said.

“We are fully committed to our religion and values and we fully reject the slightest attempt to denigrate the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” Sa’adeddine said.

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/06/04/In-a-mix-Offensive-cake-gets-baker-in-trouble-in-Saudi-Arabia-.html

You ar really asking for it

[mota bhai 2,675]

You ar really asking for it

you're always so scared, like a little girl.

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Appears that in Saudi Arabia you can't have your cake and eat it

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

you're always so scared, like a little girl.

I got your little girl

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“We are fully committed to our religion and values and we fully reject the slightest attempt to denigrate the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice,” Sa’adeddine said.

Morons.

[mota bhai 2,675]

Morons.

They want to stay in business.

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They want to stay in business.

For sure.