Saudi clerics want women banned from TV and media

[woo me with science]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.62a148d8155607db7d3fc5217177f85f.901&show_article=1

Saudi clerics want women banned from TV, media

Hardline Saudi clerics have called on the government to ban women from appearing on television and to prohibit their images in print media, which they called a sign of growing "deviant thought."

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"There should be no Saudi woman on television, in any case," they said. "There is no doubt that this is religiously impermissible."

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They appeared to be challenging a growing push for liberalisation of tough restrictions on women, including near-mandatory use of black, full-face veils, which are rooted in its ultra-conservative Wahhabi version of Islam.

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The letter came in the wake of an information ministry-sponsored book fair in Riyadh in early March at which religious conservatives complained that men and women were allowed to mix freely, and that some books on sale violated Islamic principles.

The book fair was marred by the muttawam, or Islamic morality police, harassing a woman author promoting her book and trying to prevent men from obtaining her autograph.

[JerseygirlCT]

1. I just don't have words nasty enough for these thugs.

I really cannot stand them.

[pscot]

3. How about troglodites?

Barbarians? God crazed savages? Murderous, woman hating thugs? Dickless cretins? Work with me here. I'm sure we can come up with something.

[JerseygirlCT]

4. All of that, and some.

truly, I cannot comprehend the evil of this regime.

[valerief]

2. Women want Saudi clerics banned from Earth. nt

[rockymountaindem]

5. Here's a question:

If these dudes think that women are so bad that they can't even be on television or in print, how can they bear to even touch one? Or think that their mother is *gasp* a woman???

I know there's probably some theological explanation for this. On the other hand, there's the old "we can't have them tempting us" shtick, but if that's what they're afraid of, it doesn't say much for their impulse control.

[Withywindle]

6. That's what I'll never understand and don't want to.

If they have that little self-control they can't handle seeing a woman's face on TV, they're a bunch of weak, underdeveloped larvae of people, not actual people.

And if it's the men who have no self-control, then it's MEN who should stay sequestered in their homes, not allowed to drive, not allowed to travel without a female relative, dressed in hobbling, restrictive clothing, etcetera. They should wear blinders on their heads like carriage horses in traffic.