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

[metmom]

No kidding.

[TBP]

Is anyone actually surprised by this?

[Last Dakotan]

With the manufacturing base gone, porn is now our greatest export. See, your daughters do have a place in the new world economy.

[Last Dakotan]

Same with Iran.
Same with Pelosi.

LOL

[Kozak]

Personally I think we should jam Al Jazerra’s satellite feeds and pump out porn 24-7 on them. Drive the Moo’s nuts...

[exit82]

The punishment: amputation of text messaging fingers.

[gathersnomoss]

Wet spot apparently.

[Chaguito]

...Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.

If you try to be more legalistic, you just make more lawbreakers. Thus always Islam.

[infowarrior]

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

And anything else which contains alcohol, up to and including such things as aftershave and cologne...

the infowarrior

[infowarrior]

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

When I did, it was not uncommon for me to do so (these days I don't imbibe at all, so draw your own conclusions...)

the infowarrior

[goldstategop]

Sheikh Nefzawi, the author of "The Perfumed Garden," would be surprised by Saudi puritanical doctrine. He wrote one of the most famous sex works in Islamic civilization. Let me guess: that too would be banned in modern day Saudi Arabia.

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

[dfwgator]

Where is the primary destination for Muslims the first thing they got off the airplane coming from a Muslim country to a non-Muslim one?

The nudie bar.

[Getready]

Just think, the world pays them for their oil, and they
go around like that....really bout time we and other
countries get out of the oil market...wouldn’t that be
interesting if they didn’t make money pulling out
hydrocarbon deposits out of the earth...

[Levante]

But hey, she’s naked under her clothes! ;)

[Levante]

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

;-)”

Wildlife websites qualify as porn in Saudi Arabia, apparently!

[RichInOC]

I was going to say...I didn’t know they even had bestiality porn optimized for mobiles.

[Gorzaloon]

I was going to say...I didn’t know they even had bestiality porn optimized for mobiles.

Now, now.."Beast" is in the eye of the beholder. Why, that could have been one of the waiting 72 Virgins. Or my prom date, years ago....