Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with king

[Voldemort]

LONDON: Saudi Arabia's interior ministry has banned 50 names they argue contradict the culture or religion of the Kingdom, according to reports by local media.

Parents in the kingdom will reportedly no longer be able to call their children by names such as Linda, Alice, Elaine or Binyamin (Arabic for Benjamin) after the civil affairs department at the ministry issued a list of the prohibited names.

Binyamin is believed in Islam to be the son of Prophet Jacob, but is also the name of the current Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Some names on the list are allegedly banned by the interior ministry because they are considered "blasphemous," non-Arabic or non-Islamic, or contradictory to the kingdom's culture or religion, Gulf News has reported.

The ban was also allegedly justified by the ministry because some of the names were deemed foreign or "inappropriate".

Other sets of forbidden names include those with royal connotations, such as Sumuw (highness), Malek (king) and Malika (queen).

Some on the list do not fit into any of these categories however, leaving the reason for banning them open to speculation.



The full list of forbidden names as reported in Gulf News is listed below:

Malaak (angel)

Abdul Aati

Abdul Naser

Abdul Musleh

Binyamin (Arabic for Benjamin)

Naris

Yara

Sitav

Loland

Tilaj

Barrah

Abdul Nabi

Abdul Rasool

Sumuw (highness)

Al Mamlaka (the kingdom)

Malika (queen)

Mamlaka (kingdom)

Tabarak (blessed)

Nardeen

Sandy

Rama (Hindu god)

Maline

Elaine

Inar

Maliktina

Maya

Linda

Randa

Basmala (utterance of the name of God)

Jibreel (angel Gabriel)

Abdul Mu'een

Abrar

Iman

Bayan

Baseel

Wireelam

Nabi (prophet)

Nabiyya (female prophet)

Amir (prince)

Taline

Aram

Nareej

Rital

Alice

Lareen

Kibrial

Lauren

Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with kingdom's culture' - The Times of India

 

[rock127]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

So Shaitaan and Iblis are in line with Arabian Kingdom Culture???

 

[ninja85]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

what else could be expected from muslim country or muslim majority country.

 

[Voldemort]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

what else could be expected from muslim country or muslim majority country.

India is a Hindu majority country. What if we ban some Muslim names, starting with a very common one?

 

[Srinivas_K]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

Their country, their rules ....... India is a big country with close to Billion Hindus. I think we should not give much attention to what Saudis do.

 

[Neil]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

India is a Hindu majority country. What if we ban some Muslim names, starting with a very common one?

u are indirectly equating India with KSA... !

 

[The Messiah]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

Only an idiot will want to copy saudis.

Either you condemn them in which case you're a hypocrite if you want to copy them or either you like what they do and want to emulate them but then also you're a hypocrite if you laugh at them.

 

[PredictablyMalicious]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

Only an idiot will want to copy saudis.

Either you condemn them in which case you're a hypocrite if you want to copy them or either you like what they do and want to emulate them but then also you're a hypocrite if you laugh at them.

I see a worrying trend of rising muslim sentiments among highly educated Indians.

 

[thethinker]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

This is the difference between democratic nations and those ruled by a king.

 

[PredictablyMalicious]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

I meant anti Muslim sentiment

 

[Mad Indian]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

I see a worrying trend of rising muslim sentiments among highly educated Indians.

I meant anti Muslim sentiment

Its hard to understand the ground situation of India when living in Canada.

 

[lion]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

India is a Hindu majority country. What if we ban some Muslim names, starting with a very common one?

Yeah. Right.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

Baseel

How about Basil?

 

[pkroyal]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

Lord Ram is everywhere!

Will the Saudis also ban ?

Khurram
Besharam
Haram
So on! so forth !

 

[ninja85]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

India is a big country with close to Billion Hindus.

that's what corrupt congress wants you to think , visit government's census site page that will either blank or 12 years old data.

 

[ninja85]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

India is a Hindu majority country. What if we ban some Muslim names, starting with a very common one?

not possible in corrupt congress's rule.

 

[sydsnyper]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

How about kafir.... that's a nice sweet name...

koochi...koochi....kafir baby.... !!!!

 

[Ray]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

Only an idiot will want to copy saudis.

Either you condemn them in which case you're a hypocrite if you want to copy them or either you like what they do and want to emulate them but then also you're a hypocrite if you laugh at them.

I agree with you.

But what rankles is the Saudis puritanically follow their religious rules, and also insist that the same rules be applied to them when in foreign nations.

Even Zakir Naik has this to say

Zakir Naik: Temples and churches should not be allowed in Saudi Arabia
https://islamicterrorism.wordpress....urches-should-not-be-allowed-in-saudi-arabia/

This hypocrisy is what causes others to wonder and the right wing of their faith fanning discord using such irresponsibility of Islamic Kingdom and Islamic propagators to agitate.

 

[Ray]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

India is a Hindu majority country. What if we ban some Muslim names, starting with a very common one?

I don't think we should be so asininely bigoted and brainless as the custodian of the holiest sites of Islam.

 

[SPIEZ]

Re: Saudi Arabia bans 50 names including 'Rama' for 'conflicting with

India is a Hindu majority country. What if we ban some Muslim names, starting with a very common one?

First, Saudi is a kingdom not a secular country. And kingdom meaning ruled by a king.

Secondly India is a secular, democratic, republic. Here we do not differentiate in the lines of religion. So my humble opinion is do not hate your fellow country men because of the actions of a few people belonging to another country.