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Saudi female journalist gets 60 lashes for TV show ("Bold Red Line")
AP on Yahoo ^ | 10/24/09 | AP

Posted on 10/24/2009 9:02:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – A Saudi court on Saturday convicted a female journalist for her involvement in a TV show, in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex, and sentenced her to 60 lashes.

Rozanna al-Yami is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment. The charges against her included involvement in the preparation of the program and advertising the segment on the Internet.

Abdul-Rahman al-Hazza, the spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Information, told The Associated Press he had no details of the sentencing and could not comment on it.

In the program, which aired in July on the Lebanese LBC satellite channel, Mazen Abdul-Jawad appears to describe an active sex life and shows sex toys that were blurred by the station. The same court sentenced Abdul-Jawad earlier this month to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: female; journalist; lashes; saudi
Hmmmm..
1 posted on 10/24/2009 9:02:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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maybe change the name to “Bold Red Lines” instead.


2 posted on 10/24/2009 9:03:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge

talking about sex in open public - but then getting beaten...uhmmm

is it me - or is Islam really twisted?


3 posted on 10/24/2009 9:03:34 AM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com)
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To: NormsRevenge
Hmmm is right.

In a perfect world Caty Did would be shredded.

4 posted on 10/24/2009 9:03:40 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: NormsRevenge

That damned George Bush! This is his fault somehow.


5 posted on 10/24/2009 9:04:43 AM PDT by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: NormsRevenge

There are people here in the US that would consider this a perk of the job. Especially in San Fran.


6 posted on 10/24/2009 9:05:15 AM PDT by Sherman Logan ("The price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections." Thomas Sowell)
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To: NormsRevenge

But Islam is STILL the religion of peace. . .


7 posted on 10/24/2009 9:05:39 AM PDT by texas_mrs
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To: NormsRevenge

religion of peace at it again.....


8 posted on 10/24/2009 9:05:53 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: BCW
I wonder if the allow commercials on 'erectile dysfunction'?

A month or so ago, while watching a tv program with my six-year-old grandson who is very intelligent, he said "Grandpa, when this program is over I'll have a few questions to ask you about erectile dysfunction."

It's getting tricky watching television with children.

9 posted on 10/24/2009 9:06:10 AM PDT by IbJensen (If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, and Christian Conservatives are the Taliban of the US..... per Tingly Matthews


10 posted on 10/24/2009 9:06:29 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Blankety blankety blank)
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To: Bad Jack Bauer

If it’s Bush’s fault, then why was he the champion of the phrase “Religion of Peace”?


11 posted on 10/24/2009 9:07:33 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Pictures!


12 posted on 10/24/2009 9:07:47 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (I love it every time a POS dies at the hands of a victim.)
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To: BCW

Please note that the American taxpayer keeps this regime in power.


13 posted on 10/24/2009 9:08:13 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: IbJensen

No doubt. Now, when watchinng TV with my kids, I turn the channel during commercials. The worst commercials are the E.D. commercials and commercials for other TV programs such as Desperate Housewives.


14 posted on 10/24/2009 9:09:40 AM PDT by Engineer_Soldier (Political correctness is all good for nobody.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I expect to see an outraged press release from NOW within minutes/s


15 posted on 10/24/2009 9:09:55 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: fishtank

Yes it is partly Bush’s fault. He propped up this Islamo-fascist regime for his term. It is worthy of note that MOST of the 911 hijackers came from this country.


16 posted on 10/24/2009 9:09:59 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: NormsRevenge

How ironic that US liberals defend Muslim behavior, while chastising Christians’ desire to home school.


17 posted on 10/24/2009 9:10:53 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (I love it every time a POS dies at the hands of a victim.)
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To: IbJensen

Who is Caty Did?


18 posted on 10/24/2009 9:11:13 AM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: NormsRevenge
'Ministry of Culture and Information'

Hummm... I could get me a new Czar who could order 50 lashes for Rush & Sean! ...outlaw Christmas & Easter.

19 posted on 10/24/2009 9:11:47 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Bad Jack Bauer
That damned George Bush! This is his fault somehow.

You have stumbled on the truth. It IS his fault, at least in part. George Bush (using our blood and treasure) propped up the Islamo-fascist Saudi regime for eight years.

20 posted on 10/24/2009 9:13:09 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: Captain Kirk

to clarify - they mostly came from THAT country - Saudi Arabia ....

.... now if we could ever figure out “THAT woman” which Clinton kept referring to....

... or “THAT certificate” which 000bama can’t seem to find ...........


21 posted on 10/24/2009 9:13:44 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I roundly condemn them for giving someone lashes for talking about sex. But I can’t condemn them for giving a female journalist 60 lashes, as there are many female (and male) journalists I’d like to give 60 lashes.


22 posted on 10/24/2009 9:13:52 AM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: NormsRevenge

The man talks about sex, and the woman gets beaten???


23 posted on 10/24/2009 9:14:05 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: NormsRevenge

These people live in what century??? The 12th? What kind of monsters are these?


24 posted on 10/24/2009 9:15:51 AM PDT by kjo
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To: ViLaLuz

Didn’t he get 1000 lashes? If delivered all at once, that would be a death sentence, I would think.


25 posted on 10/24/2009 9:19:01 AM PDT by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
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To: NormsRevenge

Note to all women:

Defeat it or submit, your choice.


26 posted on 10/24/2009 9:19:55 AM PDT by SouthTexas (Obama to send an additional 40,000 troops, not to Afghanistan, but to fight FoxNews.)
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To: kjo
What kind of monsters are these?

The kind of monsters we support with billions and billions of dollars because they're our 'friends'.

27 posted on 10/24/2009 9:19:58 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: BCW

She should have talked about Gay Sex. Seems to be ok with the Muslim in the white house.


28 posted on 10/24/2009 9:24:56 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: NormsRevenge
...five years in jail and 1,000 lashes.

I wonder if they spread the 1000 lashes over the jail term? I wouldn't think one could survive 1000 lashes at once.

29 posted on 10/24/2009 9:24:56 AM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: Captain Kirk
Please note that the American taxpayer keeps this regime in power.

Our friends, the Saudis.

30 posted on 10/24/2009 9:28:29 AM PDT by GreatOne (You will bow down before me, Son of Jor-el!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yep, those silly muslims are at it, again. The Religion of Pieces schooling one of their own. Still bringing us the best of the Seventh Century for over 1400 years.

Islam is a cancer on humanity.


31 posted on 10/24/2009 9:28:41 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: PubliusMM

Islam is a boil and needs to be lanced.


32 posted on 10/24/2009 9:31:56 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Prez Zero’s gang might get ideas from this in order to deal with Fox News journalists.


33 posted on 10/24/2009 9:38:19 AM PDT by bneal
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To: DannyTN
When will 0bama decree that all Fox News reporters be given 60 lashes just to remind them he won?
34 posted on 10/24/2009 9:39:23 AM PDT by TYVets (Let's Roll!!! The leadership of the GOP has no spine and no guts, but we conservatives do)
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To: Captain Kirk

“Please note that the American taxpayer keeps this regime in power.”

Astonishing isn’t it! And yet maybe not so astonishing since one pressure group here tells us we can’t drill here and drill now while the other tries to convince us that alternative sources of energy are pie in the sky nonsense.


35 posted on 10/24/2009 9:42:11 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: TYVets

The tongue lashing has already begun.


36 posted on 10/24/2009 9:43:07 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: NormsRevenge

I can think of a noble moslem in this country, very prominent in fact, initials B.O., who will gladly lay his body across hers as the lashes are being meted out. Such is his commitment to America’s principles.


37 posted on 10/24/2009 9:45:53 AM PDT by Tax Government (Mighty nuts from tiny Acorns grow.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The Muttawa wants to protect Saudi women from indecency and lewdness by dealing harshly with sex talk. As a result, the morals of the kingdom have been safeguarded.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

38 posted on 10/24/2009 9:53:28 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: IbJensen

My 11yo son likes to watch this show on Charter on Demand, “How it’s Made”. It is a show about how things are made. It appeals to kids, boys mostly, yet EVERY SINGLE EPISODE starts with a Viagra commercial.


39 posted on 10/24/2009 10:19:34 AM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: Captain Kirk

I read a book years ago written by a Saudi princess that had escaped to England. The book gave me nightmares for a long time. One particular chapter detailed the killing of her best friend by her father in the family swimming pool. These people are animals and we kiss their collective a$$es.


40 posted on 10/24/2009 10:24:40 AM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: NormsRevenge

All of you ladies out there better hope that Obama doesn’t try to copy his Saudi brothers.


41 posted on 10/24/2009 10:25:32 AM PDT by hgro (Jerry Riversd)
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To: NormsRevenge

Is she a FOX anchor?

Pray for America


42 posted on 10/24/2009 10:31:42 AM PDT by bray (Hope and Corruption)
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To: Captain Kirk

Look at it this way though — if the American taxpayer had not kept the Saudi regime in power, they (the tax payers) would have had to pay for all the mosques that are being built in this country. So, make a choice.


43 posted on 10/24/2009 11:14:27 AM PDT by 353FMG (Save the Planet -- Erase Socialism)
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To: Tuscaloosa Goldfinch
Didn’t he get 1000 lashes? If delivered all at once, that would be a death sentence, I would think

over 5 years - likely about 20 per month

44 posted on 10/24/2009 12:40:12 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk
>> Didn’t he get 1000 lashes? If delivered all at once, that would be a death sentence, I would think

> over 5 years - likely about 20 per month

Is that a tacit admission on the part of the law, that more than 20 per month would violate the Islamic prohibition against permanent damage from whipping?

Is there any established maximum rate of strokes?

45 posted on 10/24/2009 12:46:00 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: IbJensen

we keep it off -— even Fox news doesn’t do that great of a job reporting the stories that need to be told - I’m tried of turning it on - and waiting 2 hrs for them to get to a story...I can look it on Google in 2.3 seconds...

The News is not what they say they are - I hold them 50% accountable for allowing 0bama into office...whether they supported him or didn’t - the are to blame...


46 posted on 10/24/2009 2:41:42 PM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com)
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To: NormsRevenge

not a shocker from the country that supplied 15 of the 9/11 suicide bomber murderers - remind me again why we tolerate this crap - oh yeah, the oil.


47 posted on 10/25/2009 6:23:21 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: IbJensen

“Grandpa, when this program is over I’ll have a few questions to ask you about erectile dysfunction.”

“Well kid,(feigning scratchy old persons voice) it’s a problem only when taking my BP meds...or watching Helen Thomas doing an interview!”


48 posted on 10/26/2009 12:36:27 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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