Municipal authorities in the Saudi Arabian cities of Mecca and Jeddah have banned the sale of cats and dogs as un-Islamic.

Saudi’s religious police, the Muttawa, have been instructed to prevent the sale of cats and dogs in order to prevent the spread of Western ideas into the highly Islamic country, Saudi media reported on Friday.

“Some youths have been buying them and parading them in public,” said a memo sent from the Municipal Affairs Ministry to Jeddah’s city government to explain the ban.

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