Posted on 05/07/2007 7:35:46 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Saudi Women, Oppressed by Husbands, Turn to Stripping in Internet Chat Rooms in Search of "Admiration"
Following are excerpts from a TV report on Saudi women and web cams, which aired on LBC TV on April 18, 2007:
Reporter: Behind closed doors and far from any supervising eyes, they remove their shame and turn their backs on all customs and traditions. Girls display their bodies in chat rooms on the Internet, in most cases, free of charge. As soon as one of these girls places the camera in front of her, she begins to strip, displaying her seductive charms to more than 300 young men of different ages. Some believe that the phenomenon of stripping over the Internet may be understood within the framework of social hypocrisy, especially since they believe that our religious and educational discourse does not attribute importance to the strengthening of self-restraint, and prefers the appearance over the essence. This drives some people to play several roles and wear several masks.
Commentator: Women are seeking emotions and admiration. This way, she gets words of admiration for her personality and even her body. She might remove one piece of clothing after another, in order to gain this admiration.
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Reporter: On the other hand, many believe that web stripping has not reached the proportions of a phenomenon, and that these are merely isolated cases. They emphasize that the vast majority of our girls protect their modesty and respect the customs, and traditions. These people believe that web cams can be useful tools. They can be used to maintain family ties, and can have educational applications, in lectures and conferences, for example.
Many young men and women believe that the endless prohibitions drive them to hide behind closed doors, and surf in relations that rebel against all costumes and traditions, in search of love, in some cases, and in order to satisfy their urges, in other cases, especially since the Internet gives them the opportunity to openly declare their repressed desires without fear.
Young Saudi woman in shopping mall: The girls misuse the web cams. They take them into their rooms, and even their families do not know that they have cameras, or what the girls use their laptops or web cams for.
Young Saudi man in shopping mall: A girl can buy a web cam for a very cheap price, 70-75 riyals. She takes it to her room, closes the door, and begins the show.
Reporter: Although Saudi Arabia has a strict mechanism to block access to site that are immoral, these chat rooms are available to all. Teenagers are the most frequent visitors to these sites.
The camera scans her body, sending an image, with all the details, to the other party. The further she goes with her stripping, the mare admiration she harvests, until she becomes a star, applauded by the masses – or so she imagines.
Saudi psychologist Samira Al Ghamadi: Instead of becoming upset that such images are being broadcast, we should ask why such things happen in our homes. Why do our children enter these sites? Out of curiosity. They seek answers to things we never explain to them. We tell them that this is forbidden, and shameful, shameful, shameful, shameful... We never answer them. We always say: "They will learn in the future." But they learn the wrong things, I am very sorry to say. We do not give them a sense of security. We do not give them enough room to express themselves, so they go to chat rooms. Many women might be upset with me for saying so, but there are married women whose husbands constantly pressure them, while they themselves go out at night and hang out. So the wife withdraws into the Internet and meet many people. She chooses an imaginary name, and meets guys who value her and treat her properly, while on the other hand, her husband humiliates her. Why wouldn't she go there?
Regards
Hey! Is that fruit juice they’re drinking halal?
If not...then OFF with their HEADS!
Petite Jamilla for your further research.
My current Fave. If she ever comes to Atlanta, I’M GOING!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVwEztD9xnU&mode=related&search=
“MEMRI is a total anti-Arab propaganda machine. This sounds like a bunch of unverifiable BS. I mean, how do we know these chatrooms even exist? Where are the links to these chatrooms?”
You’re kidding, right?
“While I do think that MEMRI is biased, that wasn’t really the point of my comment. It was a lead-in to the punchline of the last sentence. ASA Vet got it.”
Biased! Yes how DARE they translate Arab state media to English!
You sound like a Democrat - where quoting someone in their own words is biased hate speech.
“Any source that cherry picks the stories it focuses on is going to have a substantial bias. It’s inevitable. MEMRI clearly chooses only stories that make Arabs look like total loons. Now, it could be the case that they are loons, but I’m not going to take the word of a very narrow filter such as MEMRI as a credible source. “
Just how many clips showing Thomas Jefferson like, classical liberal ideas? Showing Saudi womens basketball? Pro-American pundits? Arab research institutes curing diseases or inventing medication? None... because it doesn’t happen.
They aren’t cherry picking - they are translating Arab textbooks and the most popular Arab programs.
You are an apologist, and in deep denial.
“Man, you’re just proving my point. You *don’t know* what Arabs think or see - all you know is what MEMRI shows you, which is clearly a narrow selection of kooks.”
Right, like the time I watched Al Jazeera and they broadcasted a biography/documentary on Adolph Hitler... followed by one on Ariel Sharon.
You’re acting like these shows are outliers - they aren’t - they are among the most popular shows on Arab state-owned (it all is) TV. This is what the Arab governments propagandize their citizens with. In other cases they show the occasional Arab dissident.
Here is a list of the recent MEMRI translations. Can you point out which are ‘cherry picked’ to make Arabs look loony? It’s a broad range of material.
May 09 SD# 1577 - Hamas Al-Aqsa TV: A Mickey Mouse Character Teaches Children About the Islamic Rule of the World And to ‘Annihilate the Jews’
May 08 SD# 1575 - Al-Qaeda Deputy Leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri Interview Produced By Al-Sahab Media
May 04 SD# 1573 - Documents Exposed by Egyptian Government Weekly Allege Ties Between Iraqi PM and Iranian Revolutionary Guards
May 04 SD# 1570 - Saudi Women Columnists Protest Against Oppression of Women in Saudi Arabia
May 03 SD# 1569 - Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: ‘There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People’
May 02 SD# 1566 - Iranian Holocaust-Denial Documentary Series On Iranian TV: ‘Merchants of the Myth’
May 01 IA# 350 - Reformist Thinker Abdennour Bidar Makes the Case for Individual Islam and Poses Questions to France’s 2007 Presidential Candidates
Apr 30 SD# 1564 - Saudi Arabia Gives Extremists Financial Incentives to Renounce Their Views
Apr 27 SD# 1563 - Prominent Islamist Kuwaiti Sheikh Questions Religious Legitimacy of the Islamic State of Iraq, Calls to Dissolve It
Apr 27 SD# 1562 - Egyptian Islamic Scholars Debate Whether Women May Serve As Heads of State
I thought she was American. His mother is.
I thought she was Palestenian. Are you thinking of the wife of the King who died? Her name is Queen Noor. She is blonde, American and gorgeous.
http://www.noor.gov.jo/index.htm
That’s her site.
Ahem...let the research continue!!!
Yes, Noor was American, but I thought his son had also married an American. Guess not. Thanks for the correction.
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