one minute Saudi Arabia is in 2009 & the next minute its in the stone age

[ensho]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8324117.stm


Lashes for Saudi woman journalist


A female journalist in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 60 lashes over a TV show in which a Saudi man described his extra-marital sex life.

The programme, made by Lebanese satellite network LBC, caused a huge scandal in conservative Saudi Arabia when it was shown several months ago.

The journalist is one of two female LBC employees who have been arrested.

Mazen Abdul Jawad, the Saudi man who talked about how he picked up Saudi women for sex, has already been jailed.

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It examined taboos in the Arab world. Unmarried sex in Saudi Arabia amongst Saudis - rather than expatriates - is one of the biggest.

Mazen Abdul Jawad provoked outrage by describing his techniques for meeting and having sex with Saudi women.

He tearfully apologised but was jailed for five years and sentenced to 1,000 lashes.

-snip-

The station's offices in Saudi Arabia were closed down and two of its producers - both female - put on trial.

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It has long been attacked by Saudi religious leaders for being at the forefront of Arab satellite stations broadcasting programmes into the kingdom featuring scantily clad Arab singers and actresses.

Ironically, however, LBC is part-owned by the Saudi media mogul and billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
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religiously insane men are dangerous and should not be in any kind of power.

my best wishes to the women - may they be set free and not lashed.

[KansDem]

1. Well, 15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia...

If we needed to kick anyone's "butt," it should have been the Saudis.

But I suppose if you're friends and business partners with the president, then you get a "get out of jail free" card...

edited for correct pronoun...

[closeupready]

2. Yep.

We need to kick the oil habit so we can pull out of there entirely.

[ensho]

3. the neo cons let 9/11 happen and put the bombs in the towers

nt

[arthritisR_US]

6. yep. n/t

[SOS]

4. Anything SA does is OK with the USA

Beheading witches, amputating petty thieves, lashing women who drive a car....it's all OK with the frauds in Washington.

Just imagine the media hysteria (and the 200 post DU threads) if this barbarism were happening in Venezuela!

[BolivarianHero]

5. These people are fucking lunatics...

For every penny spent destabilizing Latin America, $1,000,000 should be spent bringing the fucking Saud family down.

[Toasterlad]

7. Ah, Saudi Arabia. One of Only a Few Places to Make Me Glad I Live In Backwards-Ass America.

[bikebloke]

8. She's been freed.

The Saudi king pardoned her, so she's been spared the lashes.

She didn't even work on that particular program. Just an employee of the company. Plus she was afraid of appealing, in fear of an even harsher sentence.

[ensho]

9. oh, good to hear - thanks for the info

thanking the king too