RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 12, 2008
Saudi OKs Killing "Immoral" TV Execs
Decree Says Permissible To Kill Satellite TV Network Owners Over Immoral Content
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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."
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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.Those calling for corrupt beliefs, certainly it's permissible to kill them. Those calling for sedition, those who are able to prevent it but don't, it is permissible to kill them.
Sheik Saleh al-LihedanOther 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.
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See all 86 CommentsShe is on vacation. I had the service suspended immediately. It makes me lazy. My thoughts are more wholesome without it. My work productivity is way up.
Television is like suicide- a vicious murder against yourself.
The scripts of many TV shows are undermining good values and seeming to promote underperformance as an acceptable alternative culture.
I don''t patronize evangelicals who condemn others for their beliefs about immorality, but I do feel that making under-performance seem as a normal culture, is equally damaging.
Shows about dysfunctional families and glamourizing it''s appeal clearly accerlerates underperformance and robs aspirations from family environments to the most impressionable viewers.
I don''t agree that, the only choice is killing but, they are might be other solutions about this issue. He was taking about an issue that, it''s currently in most of Arab countries.
In the US all channels must view the rating of any movie or show. So you don''t have to worry about what your children might watch if, you know the rating.
But, in most Arabic channels or other channels view via Arabsat or Nilesat is different *.
When you sit with your children in your living room and, you don''t know if your children might see something they haven''t seen it before we will be in very impressing situation. Some channels might view sexual content in times that, these shows shouldn''t be viewed (around 4PM-9PM) some times in the morning. Then you should worry about them.
I''m an open mind person and, I have the right to choice what my children should watch. But, since these channels don''t respect most people they should be stopped by a law like this.
I knew that, they will not be killed but, Al-Lihedan made this strong statement because he wants these channels to care about most people families, especially in Ramadan. Because most channels change their TV shows double in Ramadan compare with any time of the year.
This is just a brief of what is going on with most of TV production.
Thank you for everyone who cares about his family.
*(Arabsat and, Nilesat are a satellite service not such as the cable(Time Warner,etc) ) .
Al-Lihedan is right.
I don''t agree that, the only choice is killing but, they are might be other solutions about this issue. He was taking about an issue that, it''s currently in most of Arab countries.
In the US all channels must view the rating of any movie or show. So you don''t have to worry about what your children might watch if, you know the rating.
But, in most Arabic channels or other channels view via Arabsat or Nilesat is different *.
When you sit with your children in your living room and, you don''t know if your children might see something they haven''t seen it before we will be in very impressing situation. Some channels might view sexual content in times that, these shows shouldn''t be viewed (around 4PM-9PM) some times in the morning. Then you should worry about them.
I''m an open mind person and, I have the right to choice what my children should watch. But, since these channels don''t respect most people they should be stopped by a law like this.
I knew that, they will not be killed but, Al-Lihedan made this strong statement because he wants these channels to care about most people families, especially in Ramadan. Because most channels change their TV shows double in Ramadan compare with any time of the year.
This is just a brief of what is going on with most of TV production.
Thank you for everyone who cares about his family.
*(Arabsat and, Nilesat are a satellite service not such as the cable(Time Warner,etc) ) .
Al-Lihedan is right.
I don''t agree that, the only choice is killing but, they are might be other solutions about this issue. He was taking about an issue that, it''s currently in most of Arab countries.
In the US all channels must view the rating of any movie or show. So you don''t have to worry about what your children might watch if, you know the rating.
But, in most Arabic channels or other channels view via Arabsat or Nilesat is different *.
When you sit with your children in your living room and, you don''t know if your children might see something they haven''t seen it before we will be in very impressing situation. Some channels might view sexual content in times that, these shows shouldn''t be viewed (around 4PM-9PM) some times in the morning. Then you should worry about them.
I''m an open mind person and, I have the right to choice what my children should watch. But, since these channels don''t respect most people they should be stopped by a law like this.
I knew that, they will not be killed but, Al-Lihedan made this strong statement because he wants these channels to care about most people families, especially in Ramadan. Because most channels change their TV shows double in Ramadan compare with any time of the year.
This is just a brief of what is going on with most of TV production.
Thank you for everyone who cares about his family.
*(Arabsat and, Nilesat are a satellite service not such as the cable(Time Warner,etc) ) .
If we could be selective, I wouldn''''t mind if they beat the cr@p (Not Kill)out of the guy the created Barney the Dinosaur. Anyone how has had to suffer through that "I love you-you love me" song more than once knows what I''''m talking about.
Posted by Questionnews at 07:14 PM : Sep 12, 2008
Quite honestly, no I don''t understand what you mean. I have eight grandchildren. They all grew up with Barney and, at on time or another, their families have had to live with me for one reason or another. I NEVER got tired of them singing that song, either to Barney or to me! I still love it when the littlest ones sing it to me. The oldest is now 15 and the youngest is 2. Thirteen years of Barney and it hasn''t gotten old yet. I guess that is because I don''t mind the fact that Barney was written for CHILDREN!! Perhaps you can''t understand that part. ;-)
Dah....Then don''''t watch, or are you too stupid to know how to change the channel.
Posted by zoe2006 at 07:09 PM : Sep 12, 2008
The only problem with this is that this mularky is too easily available to children. It doesn''t matter how carefully the parents try to keep it from their kids, it is still put in their faces almost daily. A parent cannot be at their child''s side 24/7. The child has to go to school, etc. Just walking out the door puts them at risk of hearing it blasting from some idiot''s car stereo or TV.
Posted by tmittelstaed at 04:36 PM : Sep 12, 2008
Sorry to disappoint you, but this is how the Saudis are.... period! This is how they have been for years, eons even. It ain''t gunna change... get it? This is what GWB has been cozy with all along.
Posted by willo1301 at 01:48 PM : Sep 12, 2008
Excuse me, but the hands being cut off, the stonings, etc. are all going on right there in your special friends'' homeland of Saudi Arabia! I have a friend who is an R.N. who worked there for two years. She said it was the most ''educational'' two years she ever spent. The first time she ever had to try to catheterize a girl who had been ''circumcized'', the first time she saw a stoning occur (a dumptruck unloaded onto a human being after the initial few were cast by hand, taking care of people with only one hand or one eye. These things are things she will never forget of all the thousands of patients she has worked with in her years of nursing.
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
So many Republicans are in bed (figuratively speaking - I think) with Saudi princes and Big Oil that it makes you wonder if that menage a'' trois will try to lay some sort of censorship on us before long, now that Saudi Arabia has done it.
Here''s hoping Bush doesn''t go dancing in Saudi Arabia again before next January...
Posted by starleo14672 at 07:26 PM : Sep 12, 2008
They would most likely send a hit squad to get you for it,
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Posted by hypnotoad72 at 06:40 PM : Sep 12, 2
Lets send a tape of Hannity and O''Riely over there,what ya say huh?
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