Saudi OKs Killing "Immoral" TV Execs

Decree Says Permissible To Kill Satellite TV Network Owners Over Immoral Content

(AP)  Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.

The 79-year-old Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan said Thursday that satellite channels cause the "deviance of thousands of people."

Many of the most popular Arab satellite networks - which include channels showing music videos often denounced as obscene by Muslim conservatives - are owned by Saudi princes and well-connected Saudi businessmen. Al-Lihedan did not specify any particular channels.

Al-Lihedan is chief of the kingdom's highest tribunal, the Supreme Judiciary Council. Saudi Arabia's judiciary is made up of Islamic clerics whose decrees, or fatwas, on everyday issues are widely respected. Their fatwas do not have the weight of law. In the courts, cleric-judges rule according to Islamic law, but interpretations can vary.

Al-Lihedan was answering listeners' questions during the daily "Light in the Path" radio program in which he and others make rulings on what is permissible under Islamic law.

One caller asked about Islam's view of the owners of satellite TV channels that show "bad programs" during Ramadan.

"I want to advise the owners of these channels, who broadcast calls for such indecency and impudence ... and I warn them of the consequences," he said.

"What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity?" he said.

"Those calling for corrupt beliefs, certainly it's permissible to kill them," he said. "Those calling for sedition, those who are able to prevent it but don't, it is permissible to kill them."

Among the most viewed Arabic satellite networks is Rotana, which airs movies and music videos. It is owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a billionaire businessman and member of the royal family whom Forbes ranks as the world's 13th richest person.

Other questions in the radio show tackled personal issues. Al-Lihedan advised one man, for example, that by kissing his wife during the day he broke his fast during the holy month of Ramadan, when having sex, eating, drinking and smoking are prohibited from sunrise to sunset. He told the man he should make up for it with an extra day of fasting.

Al-Lihedan sparked controversy in the past by issuing a decree that Saudis can join jihadists to fight U.S. troops in Iraq.

[jamster31]

The Saudis ought to be treated like the animals they act like. If they didn''t have oil they''d be selling sand and carpets. They have no expertice on anything except being terrorists. They certainly aren''t anyones friend. They''re just a bunch of nomads that found oil. I say just take it from them.

[jamster31]

Our government should out out a decree that says killing a Saudi is ok because they are killers, terrorists and male chauvinists.

[mensarino]

And to think,Bush considers these extremists our "friends".

[docadams3]

Exactly what values do we share with these people to justify being allied with them at any level or degree?

[jmurrieta11]

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[wassermd]

It is appropriate for the Saudis to denounce the media on 9/11. They may be building new cities but they are medieval in all other ways.

[nwarky1]

Sand and heat make glass.... A three foot thick slap of glass dunes would make a wonderful place to stage the "X" Games....... The really great part is that you can still drill an oil well through glass. Also, the glass could easily be shaped into a natural channel to funnel the oil to the Suez Canal or some other shipping port, saving on the need to build pipelines. A couple of strategically placed extreme heat sources a mile or so above certain sand dunes would have a really nice effect. I''d like to fly over afterwards to see what the sunset would look like glinting off that. And those little dark specks in the glass....... Well, what the heck....... I guess then we wouldn''t have to worry about what Al-Beavis thinks about having *** would we......

[zhynaryll]

If these people are ''friends'', we may as well invite bin Laden over for dinner. Oh, wait - The One has that on his 2nd day schedule....

[yongamerica]

So the government and courts of Saudi Arabia are much like that of Iran. Kind of like a candy bar. A western coating outside with a rich fanatic religious zealots in the middle.

[despido]

Yup! Just like all the politicians tell us... Islam is a peaceful religion. Bush, Obama, McCane.... they''re ALL cowards.

[andrew_693]

and to think that these islamic sheiks are the number one allies of the Macshame-Barracuda formula, I guess they hold the same family values. Just look at the record of how Bush kisses their arse. Most of the hijackers were from saudi arabia and yet bush and his friends invaded iraq that had nothing to do.

[endpcnow]

Muslims lack logical thinking because their brain cells decrease every time they bang their head against the rug on the floor 5 times a day.

[endpcnow]

The West should ban Islam . . . period. Why? Because Islam produces Muslims. Because all Islam is one and same. Because of over 10,000 terrorist attacks committed in the name of Islam in the last 5 or 6 years. Because Islam is the only religion that has to retain its membership by threatening to kill anyone who leaves. Because Islam is not tolerant of other religions. I%u2019m not sure there are good muslims. We never hear from them during these confrontations. If %u201Cgood%u201D Muslims do absolutely nothing about atrocities being committed in their name then the line between good and bad Muslims becomes blurred. All that is need for evil to triumph is for %u201Cgood%u201D people to do nothing. The French are already a lost cause, and many other nations are following suit, allowing Islamic courts, banning historically significant symbols, icons and pastimes such as coed swimming to appease the rapidly growing and ever more vociferous Muslim minorities. If people want things to be exactly as they were in their countries of origin, then why don%u2019t they just remain there? Radical Islam is as much about as about carefully and deliberately applying ideas and creativity as it is about bombs and bullets.

[gop_will_win]

We should do this in America. Then we would get some good moral christian programming on all channels!

[random_radar]

"The West should ban Islam . . . period. Why? Because Islam produces Muslims..."

Posted by endpcnow at 12:07 PM : Sep 12, 2008

This sounds like something someone said about a certain ethnic group in Germany during the 1940''s. Is America becoming the next Fascist regime to perpetrate another holocaust?

When I studied the holocaust in school, I thought "How could this happen?" I never thought my own country would turn out like Nazi Germany. But lo and behold it has!

[berniepeders]

The Saudis ought to be treated like the animals they act like. If they didn''t have oil they''d be selling sand and carpets. They have no expertise on anything except being terrorists. They certainly aren''t anyone''s friend. They''re just a bunch of nomads that found oil. I say just take it from them.

Posted by jamster31

I agree completely.
Peace

[petro49l]

This country has a law called "Separation of Church and State" for this reason. Celibacy is not a federal law. Religious Ministers have no business in the government.

[vranger]

"When I studied the holocaust in school, I thought "How could this happen?" I never thought my own country would turn out like Nazi Germany. But lo and behold it has!"

First, you''re sort of over-reacting. No one has advocated penning up and murdering all Muslims. There is no valid comparison of the type you attempted.

On the other hand, the Jewish population of Europe weren''t known to commit frequent terrorist murders. Fifty years ago no one here gave Islam a 2nd thought. The negative attention it now receives is strictly created by its own violent actions.

[vranger]

Secondly, the headline of this article is typical cbs.com slanted sensationalsim. "Saudis" did not approve killing satillite network owners. One radical cleric on a radio show said he thought it was OK. The content and the title of the article here bear NO relation to each other.

[eggy1620]

I find it interensting that Islams fundamental belief is that Muslims cannot be trusted to make decisions or govern their own behavior.

[jamster31]

The West should ban Islam . . . period. Why? Because Islam produces Muslims..."

Posted by endpcnow at 12:07 PM : Sep 12, 2008

This sounds like something someone said about a certain ethnic group in Germany during the 1940''''s. Is America becoming the next Fascist regime to perpetrate another holocaust?

When I studied the holocaust in school, I thought "How could this happen?" I never thought my own country would turn out like Nazi Germany. But lo and behold it has!


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Posted by random_radar at 12

The Jews doctrin wasn''t to kill non believers.

[inventagod2]

From those friends of Bu$h who brought you 9/11...

[pepperwood2]

What''s wrong with the Muslim countries killing those Immoral Infidel TV Station Execs? Its time to the Oil Producing Arab Countries to cut back on their Oil Production to starve out the Poor Infidels trying to feed themselves & keep warm in the rest of the world.

After all isn''t that what Islam is all about?? Just what are they doing with all that Oil Revenue we Infidels are paying them?

[endpcnow]

*******er said,

hey endpcnow. Im gonna guess you are a white closet racist who is a bigot to anyone or anything that does not conform to your narrow minded obtuse train of thought. "Get r done" You are an embarrassment to the multicultural fabric that is America. Reread what you just wrote after you stop surfing the KKK website your on,


I''m narrow minded? No one group is more narrow minded than Muslims. No one group lacks tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view more than Muslims. No one group is more hypocritical. Calling me childish names doesn''t chnage the truth. You''re an appologist . . . peroid. Go live in Iran or Saudi if you love ''em so much.

[rushliberal]

Watch Out Murdoch!

This is What Bush supports by supporting Saudi Arabia.

Hey Saudi''s Bush is Immoral too.

And Just look at Cheney.

[oneamerican4]

This is the Saudi''s version of the Democrat''s "Fairness Doctrine".

[mainedoggie]

Typical behavior for a radical right-wing conservative government, backed by religion and their crazy God.

Now you thugs know why we will preserve Separation of Church and State.

[bobnjersey]

[Saudi Arabia''s top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.]

this is what we need for lying, manipulating public officials and company officers. replace the ''kill'' w/ a nice old greek principle known as ostracizing. ten years on an island would be appropriate ... with all rights to enter the field they corrupted removed for life. that will teach them to lie/manipulate/steal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracize

[lovegetpeace]

Folks,
There are 119 nations in this world ruled by Dictators or Kings such as the Saudi Arabia Kingdom. Somehow, Idiot Americans decided to eliminate dictator Saddam instead of ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud because Saddam was a very bad dictator and to impose Democracy in Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia.

What a big political Joke around the world for centuries to come.

[chalres-2009]

It is funny how much the conservatives in this country have in common with the conservative muslims. They are more alike then different. Whats Up..

[georgew1956]

WHAT WOULD THEY HAVE DONE TO O''L BILLY CLINTON

[mitywhity]

Sounds reasonable to me, doesn''t it to you? Their DNA may qualify them as fellow humans, but their ideologies make them as alien to us as if they came from another planet.

[kittykatty2]

Nancy you crack me up. Just when i think I have you pegged, you switch. That post was hilarious. You should have your own TV show. (In America though, not Saudi Arabia)

[lovegetpeace]

Posted by willo1301 at 01:48 PM : Sep 12, 2008

How low must America get before your answer does not stand on 2 feets?

[notfooled]

When I studied the holocaust in school, I thought "How could this happen?" I never thought my own country would turn out like Nazi Germany. But lo and behold it has!

Posted by random_radar

When we start telling citizens you''re not patriotic if you don''t support Bush''s war for oil profits, it''s very akin to the tactics used by the Nazi''s.

When you invade sovereign countries to fill the coffers of the military industrial companies that make weapons of violence, it''s very much like Nazi Germany.

When you tell teacher''s what they must teach and try to impose a rewriting of historical facts, it''s very similar to tactics used by Hitler.

When you exterminate a million humans by spewing forth 962 public lies, wmd, wmd, wmd, taking your country into war, killing more folks than Sadam himself and rivaling Hitler, comparisons are very appropriate.

When anybody spouts "immoral!", I know I''m listening to somebody who is NOT serving his/her god. Rather, i''m listening somebody who is playing god.

I don''t care what religion it is.

[notfooled]

When anybody spouts "immoral!", I know I''m listening to somebody who is NOT serving his/her god. Rather, i''m listening somebody who is playing god.

I don''t care what religion it is.

Posted by hadenough43 at 03:14 PM : Sep 12, 2008

Thus all religions!

And of course all religions are "inventions" of men to contol those that need the security of mind that someone might know what''s going on and could tell them how to live.

Do we need any more reason to break our addiction to oil. We desperately need to scale back any relationships we have with these countries - Especially the Saudi''s. Let ''em live in their own religious hell.

[republic1776]

This is exactly the reason why we DON''t want Islam in America.

[coronalu]

Where is the love that we are to have towards each other? Is this the only way? What kind of god is it that tells these folks to go kill each other instead of to work with each other in love and to be the example? Who wants a belief that is based on hate and then to justify murder based on this hate? Can we then justify to "hate" and "murder" another human being based on the fact that they are middle eastern? Boy, are we sick or what???

[gce65]

I OK it too. Let''s start with Fox News execs.

[dkhorse1]

What''s interesting is looking at the bigger picture, lets say in Europe, it''s that they are so progressive (and scared of Islam) they are letting this insidious religion slowly takeover, while at the same time ridiculing religion (not Islam) in general. So they stand the most to lose first if this kind of mentality grows and gains a foothold in "progressive" regions of the western world.

Radical Islamist love the Bush administration, the administration has proven to be the best distraction to the creeping death of radical Islam and has made everyone hate the administration, then the true threat to freedom and the ideas of "progressives."

The west hates conservative Bush (who is only President for a max of 8 years) versus Islamic royal families in power forever. It%u2019s obvious that many have been so blinded by hate they cannot see the BIGGER picture.

It will be interesting to hear what people will say when the West shifts from a Christian religious base to an Islamic one. Worried about your freedoms now, wait, I''m sure it will get better.

[inventagod2]

All religions need a warning label: Buyer Beware...

[scallywag8]

I say kill the judiciary official who made the immoral decision.

[tmittelstaed]

If the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court made such a pronouncement he would be impeached in short order. This is not just some random nutcase in Saudi Arabia blowing off steam. This is nothing more than a part of a calculated campaign by the radical Muslims to remove the secular influences of the Saudi government and put the Islamic clerics in charge of the government. We can only hope that some nutcase in Saudi Arabia takes up this fatwa and makes an assassination attempt on one of the Saudi royal family, because it appears that if the royal family is going to allow this to pass without comment, that an assassination is likely the only thing that is going to spur them to purge the radical clerics from the government.
I''m just waiting for the day that China displaces the United States as the world''s largest importer of oil. I''m sure that they aren''t going to put up with this kind of stuff coming out of OPEC. The US should have sent covert agents in to assassinate Lihedan years ago.

[bobnjersey]

[It will be interesting to hear what people will say when the West shifts from a Christian religious base to an Islamic one. Worried about your freedoms now, wait, I''''m sure it will get better.]
[Posted by dkhorse1 at 04:09 PM : Sep 12, 2008]

yea ... when is this happening ... do you have a date?

islamic terrorism is not about converting the world to islam ... it''s about the influence of western ideals on their religious tenats ... and they want us, and our influence, out of their world.

explain how islamic terrorists are going to convert the western world to islam? is this expected to be voluntary ... or under duress?

[presjfk]

"Saudi Arabia''s top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content."

If they were to get their way, which they won''t, that would mean the death of all television broadvast owners and then eventually all shareholders, TV employees, advertisers, repairmen, installers, TV manufacturers, all subsidiaries and of course, television viewers. Lots of dead people with logic like that.

Saudi Arabia friggin blows.

[presjfk]

"And we have a muslim running for president. Posted by One_Texan"

Keep spreading lies and McCain might win. I admit the strategy seems to be working.

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by One_Texan at 05:06 PM

I didn''t know McCain is Muslim. I wouldn''t vote for him then. Oooooh!

[presjfk]

"This is nothing more than a part of a calculated campaign by the radical Muslims to remove the secular influences of the Saudi government"

There are no secular influences in the Saudi government. Just radical and even more radical.