Saudis shut TV offices in sex row

[Heidi]

Source: BBC

Page last updated at 12:02 GMT, Sunday, 9 August 2009 13:02 UK

The Jeddah offices of a Lebanon-based TV station which broadcast an interview with a Saudi man boasting about his sexual conquests have been closed.

Saudi Arabian authorities said the offices had been shut by order of the country's deputy prime minister.

The 32-year-old Saudi man's interview shocked conservative Saudi society, prompting calls for him to be punished.

Mazen Abdul Jawad talked about his sexual conquests and how he picks up women in the kingdom.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8192124.stm

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[madeline_con]

1. Oooops! Word got out that there are goings on that are under reported.

The morality police never sleep.

My son lives in the kingdom, and talked of a woman he dated before marrying another.

There is NO dating, supposedly. :shrug:

[tomreedtoon]

2. Was the man's name Howardi Sterni?

If it isn't, I bet it will be...especially on American satellite radio.

I think if we really wanted regime change in the region, we shouldn't send in troops or guns or kill people. I think we should flood the area with good old fashioned American porn. Tell the people what sexual hypocrites the ruling class is, how their repressive religion is not the only position a deity might take, and how women can take the sexual initiative as well as a man. (A good percentage of dominatrix porn would be good for this.)

[Stumbler]

3. Flood the area with porn? I like your thinking

While we're at it, maybe we can make it required viewing for some of our own holier-than-thou zealots. Maybe the religious right in America wouldn't be so up-tight if they dropped their abstinence-only approach and embraced sexual liberation. After all, a number of their political leaders already have... I think we'd have to use a different term than "sexual liberation" though; it's too close to "Liberal" for them to even finish reading the sentence.

[tomreedtoon]

4. Wish the idea was mine. It was Bill Maher's.

As he said, most of the religious fanaticism came from their sexual denial. To quote his New Rules:

"We need the Coalition of the Willing to be really willing. We need to mobilize two divisions of skanks, a regiment of ho's, and a brigade of girls who just can't say no. All under the command of Col. Ann Coulter, who'll be dressed in her 'Ilsa, She-Wolf of the S.S.' uniform.

"Forget the Peace Corps, we need a piece-of-ass-corps. Girls, there's a cure to terrorism, and you're sitting on it."

[Heidi]

5. UPDATE | CNN: Saudis pull plug on Lebanese TV station after lewd content is aired

August 11, 2009 -- Updated 1528 GMT (2328 HKT)

(CNN) -- Saudi Arabian officials have closed a second office of a Lebanese broadcasting network, this one in Riyadh, after the network aired an interview with a Saudi man who bragged about his sex life, authorities said.

Abdul-Rahman al-Hazza, spokesman for the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information, said the Riyadh office of LBC (Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation) was closed Monday.

"It was shut down because of the program that aired," he told CNN, adding that that was the "main reason."

On Sunday, authorities closed the LBC office in Jeddah.

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