Posted on 10/07/2009 9:27:51 AM PDT by Abathar
(CNN) -- A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced a man who caused uproar by bragging about his sex life on television to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes, according to Ministry of Information officials. Mazen Abdul Jawad talked openly about his sex life on the controversial show.
Mazen Abdul Jawad, a 32-year-old airline employee and divorced father of four, spoke openly about his sexual escapades, his love of sex and losing his virginity at age 14. He made the comments on Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, which aired the interview a few months ago.
Saudi authorities shut down LBC offices in Jeddah and Riyadh after airing the interview on an episode of its popular show "A Thick Red Line." Abdul Jawad was arrested shortly after the program aired and charged with violating Saudi Arabia's crime of publicizing vice.
On the program, Abdul Jawad is also shown in his bedroom, where he holds sexual aids up to the camera. The episode ends with him cruising the streets of Jeddah in his car looking for women.
The episode caused an uproar in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia, where sharia, or Islamic law, is practiced. Pre-marital sex is illegal, and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle.
The segment in question has been posted on the video-sharing site YouTube since its initial broadcast last month, and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
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I don't care how much you're into that kind of stuff, OUCH!
I can only imagine the punishment if he did this bragging offline.
1000 lashes, administered at once, is a death sentence.
if it’s not, i think you would wish it was...
Letterman should take 100 lashes per show.
That was my thinking also, I have seen how bloody 10 lashes can be, imagine going through 10 hard lashes spaced out 100 times after you heal up each time.
The left wants to know what real torture is? Look here.
“and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle”
Incest is a-ok though.
Oh yeah, camels too.
“and unrelated men and women are not permitted to mingle”
Incest is a-ok though.
Oh yeah, camels too.
Is Mike Duvall next?
He’ll get it down to 10 lashes in exchange for naming his female partners, who will then be executed.
Just a idea:
Dear Levi Johnston,
Congratulations, Levi, you have won a free, all expense paid trip to Saudi Arabia, courtesy of Free Republic!
These same Wahhabi lunatics who run that country come over here and whore around Vegas and the Super Bowl every year.
Bow, Obama.
1,000 lashes will kill him. Heck probably 100 would kill a man.
She looks like she fell face first into my tackle box...
25 real lashes would likely kill someone, much less 1000. Normally, even as few as 5 lashes would cause serious injury. Does he get all 1000 at once?
So let me get this straight: rich Saudi men have dozens of wives (and maybe even bought-and-paid-for sex slaves) and spend uncounted hours screwing themselves silly ("it's the sex, stupid"), but a Saudi bachelor who talked about his sex life on television will therefore go to prison for five years and receive 1000 lashes.
I love the smell of islam in the morning: it smells like...hypocrisy.
I don’t know, if they do they better use a silk ship, 1000 lashes would be a death sentence.
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