Porn star Paris Hilton’s store at Mecca Mall sparks outrage in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: US businesswoman and musician Paris Hilton on Monday came under heavy criticism from Saudis after she posted a message on micro blogging site, Twitter, announcing opening of a store having bags and accessories under her name in Mecca, a holy place for Muslims in Saudi Arabia.   

Saudis took to Twitter to say Hilton, who once starred in a sex video which went viral on the internet, was ‘insulting Mecca’ – a key site for the world’s 1.2billion Muslims – by opening the branch in Mecca Mall to sell bags and accessories under her name.

They tweeted in their hundreds to attack the celebrity entrepreneur, with some saying it was an ‘affront’ to the ‘principal sanctuary’ of Islam.