Porn dominates Saudi mobile use

BBC News ^ | 4/26/07 | STAFF

[mathprof]

Up to 70% of files exchanged between Saudi teenagers' mobile phones contain pornography, according to a study in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.

The study quoted in Arab News focussed on the phones of teenagers detained by religious police for harassing girls.

The same researcher also found that 88% of girls say they have been victims of harassment using Bluetooth technology.

Saudi Arabia has toughened penalties for misuse of mobile phones which challenge its strict social traditions.

"The flash memory of mobile phones taken from teenagers showed 69.7% of 1,470 files saved in them were pornographic and 8.6% were related to violence," said report author Professor Abdullah al-Rasheed.

He presented his study at a seminar organised by the King Fahd Security Academy, Arab News reports.

Public social contact between genders is banned in public in Saudi Arabia, which enforces a strict interpretation of Islamic law and morality.

But the spread of Bluetooth technology, allowing wireless connection between mobile phones, has allowed for increased opportunities of communication as well as abuse

[mathprof]

What a surprise.

[Gorzaloon]

They will just put veils on the Goat Pictures. Problem Solved.

[SolidWood]

I expect the Saudis to behead themselves for punishment.

[JRios1968]

The most circulated picture:

[Slings and Arrows]

Silly Saudis! Don't they know the Internet is for porn?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ron Jeremy should be our Saudi ambassador.

[verum ago]

hey Akhmed, check it out- I got some girl to lift her burqa and got a picture with my phone!

akhmed: ankles, sweet, sweet, ankles...

[rovenstinez]

I’ve heard that Muslim men order un usual amount of stuff from Victoria Secret, Fredericks of Hollywood types.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Gasp! Her...UNEXPOSED.....FEET!... are showing....!!!!

Call the Morality Police, quick!

[rzeznikj at stout]

[kittymyrib]

Muslims are a sick bunch.

[finnman69]

Just alked to someone who has worked in Saudi Arabia, he said the Saudis behind closed dorrs drink copius amounts of Jack Daniels.

[cgbg]

Are you sure that a camel is not the object of their lust?

;-)

[Eye of Unk]

I would love to air drop a bunch of cell phone auto dialer/transmitters in Iran especially near Tehran that would flood all cell phones with pics of porn, ads for Fredericks of Hollywood and watch the muzzies go nuts.

[COEXERJ145]

When a flight leaves Saudi airspace, the first two things that happen are most of the men order alcohol and the women change into Western attire.

Then on the return flight just before the plane reaches Saudi airspace, the women change back.

[taillightchaser]

Did they run out of sheep????

[Flavius]

wer

[oakcon]

If I lived in Saudi Arabia I’d get blasted off my ass everyday too.

[stuartcr]

Porn and western ways will probably help solve the whole Muslim prolem a lot cheaper and easier than war and killing, we should just give it some time...but of course, the terrorists don’t want to wait, because in a generation or two, they won’t wield near the power and influence they do now.

[Diogenesis]