Saudi sex braggart gets 5 years, 1,000 lashes

[BolivarianHero]

Source: CNN

A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced a man who caused uproar by bragging about his sex life on television to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes, according to Ministry of Information officials.
Mazen Abdul Jawad talked openly about his sex life on the controversial show.

Mazen Abdul Jawad, a 32-year-old airline employee and divorced father of four, spoke openly about his sexual escapades, his love of sex and losing his virginity at age 14. He made the comments on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, which aired the interview a few months ago.

Saudi authorities shut down LBC offices in Jeddah and Riyadh after airing the interview on an episode of its popular show "A Thick Red Line." Abdul Jawad was arrested shortly after the program aired and charged with violating Saudi Arabia's crime of publicizing vice.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/10/07/saudi.sex.braggart/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

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BUT TEH EEVIL DICKTATER YUGO SHAVEZZ IZ BANING MIllITERRY COU PATRIOTZ FROM TEH VAYNAYZOOLANDER TEEVEE!1!!!11!1!1!11

It should be against DU's Terms of Users to bash Hugo Chavez without giving equal time to a truly evil regime.

[Arkana]

1. When has anyone ever defended Saudi Arabia's medieval attitude

towards domestic issues?

And Hugo Chavez is no saint.

[paulsby]

2. exactly

i can't recall the last time anybody said ANYTHING positive about saudi arabi ... "it's a dry heat" is about the best i can say.

whereas there are tons of people who carry chavez' water.

note the difference.

[Arkana]

4. "It's a dry heat"

:rofl:

[paulsby]

5. thanks. btw

i'm originally from providence RI. old skool providence - the living room, buddy C (back BEFORE he was a convicted felon), rudy cheeks, brown spring weekend (i saw u2 in like 1984), etc.

also, if you ever watch "no reservations" with anthony bourdain, he did a really good episode in saudi arabia. i actually learned more from that show, than many others.

[harun]

9. I think Bourdains take on Saudi was excellent. Fair, honest and he

wasn't there looking to skewer the place for political reasons. He stated the good and the bad. I really liked his opinions on the country, the food and the people.

[paulsby]

12. i like his show in general

i like the way that he can have a good time with people who have different opinions and background than him. the perfect example was the episode with nugent. or alice cooper.

he's also a big ramones fan.

otoh, he is a new yorker, and as a new englander, i am a die hard boston fan and HATE the yankees.

i think his aging hipster schtick leans slightly towards becoming self parody, but he manages to pull it off.

iow, he's too cool for school, or at least THINKS he is.

but he's willing to confront his prejudices and biases (for a new yorker to give chicago pizza a fair shake is a big deal, for example), and find common ground with all sorts.

he also admits he had a very newyorkereastcoast-centric attitude, and thus didn't give other regions of our country, the same respect and benefit of the doubt that he gave OTHER countries, but that once he overcame that, and accepted people for who they are, not how they compare to new york (for example, the south. new yorkers have a lot of built in prejudice against southerners).

[eissa]

22. I love Bourdain, but that episode sucked

Oh, we're not separating the sexes, we're separating single men from families. What a crock of shit. Talk to real Saudi women, not some idiot apologist for misogyny. Have them tell you what it's like to grow, work and try to live in a crazy fundamentalist society that hates women. How married women live in fear of their husband marrying another woman and the pressure they were under to accommodate his every wish lest he humiliate her by doing just that. Saudi society sucks on so many levels.

[Soylent Brice]

3. wow.

[YoungAndOutraged]

6. Saudi Arabia's a pathetic excuse for a country

n/t

[BolivarianHero]

7. I know...

If I could travel back to the past, I'd try to convince Churchill, Roosevelt, and De Gaulle to give it to Stalin. :-P

[FiveGoodMen]

10. It's what happens when you let religion rule.

Hope America's listening!

[AnneD]

8. Guess it would be hard.....

to find Saudis for a Maury Povich show...I guess that is one good thing I can say about SA, besides the dry heat.:hide:

[Buzz Clik]

11. What kind of idiot could bring Hugo Chavez into a conversation about criminal law in Saudi Arabia?

Jeebus.

[BolivarianHero]

15. Why not?

I'll accept that few people in DU are sympathetic toward Saudi Arabia, but in the media, among moderates and conservatives (and even the odd liberal ... Pelosi, for one), and among the American public (opinion polls reveal that more Americans view Venezuela as an enemy, hostile, or a threat than Saudi Arabia), everything Chavez does gets spun in as simplistic and as negative a light as possible, and yet pro-U.S. regimes that do far worse / do things that are actually wrong get a free pass.

And yes, I have seen people here (a small minority, thankfully) crucify Chavez for relegating a couple of networks with hundreds of regulatory violations (many of which predate Chavez's first electoral victory) and who supported the undemocratic military coup of 2002 away from public airwaves and exclusively onto cable and satellite (I've even heard words like "ban" and "censorship" used to describe these actions).

It's not s non sequitur if I can use hypocrisy as a way to logically relate the issues and people's perception of them.

[CreekDog]

13. I'll criticize who I want when I want

thanks very much. :eyes:

[nolabear]

14. 1,000 lashes is a death sentence

unless they plan to give him twenty at a time.

[Zodiak]

18. I was thinking the same thing

No one can survive 1000 lashes of Saudi punishment. It would flay all of the flesh off of his back, and he'll bleed to death.

[Lance_Boyle]

19. Not if spread out over 5 years

but man, what an unpleasant 5 years.

[undeterred]

16. I guess they don't have a Saudi Dave Letterman.

[bertman]

17. That dude must have had a fantasy of being picked to be on an American "reality" show.

Bad mistake. Very bad mistake.

[NeoConsSuck]

20. Wilt Chamberlain

should stay out of Saudi Arabia

[Art_from_Ark]

24. That shouldn't be too hard for Wilt

since he died in 1999.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

21. Wouldn't a thousand lashes kill somebody?

[Dogmudgeon]

23. Not 20 at a time

Each Saturday (the day after the Muslim sabbath) for one year.

Losing half the skin on your back each week -- imagine having that to look forward to.

--d!