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Saudi female journalist gets lashes for sex show
Associated Press ^ | Oct. 24, 2009 | DONNA ABU-NASR

Posted on 10/24/2009 2:43:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia— A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show in which a Saudi man publicly talked about sex.

Rozanna al-Yami, 22, is believed to be the first Saudi woman journalist to be given such a punishment, but there were conflicting accounts about how the court issued its verdict.

Al-Yami, who worked as a coordinator for the program but has denied working on the sex-show episode, told The Associated Press it was her understanding that the judge at the court in the western city of Jiddah dropped the charges against her. They included involvement in the preparation of the show and advertising the segment on the Internet.

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1 posted on 10/24/2009 2:43:09 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
More diversion by the press to keep Obama’s asinine and misdirected, yet confused, directives out of the picture?
2 posted on 10/24/2009 2:50:39 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not for nothing..........

....but after 9/11, Bush should have taken on Saudi and Egypt the countries that supplied Bin Laden with the terrorists and the countries who looked the other way when there was terrorist activity on their soil which led to 9/11..


3 posted on 10/24/2009 2:52:22 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Too bad female journalists can’t be sentenced to lashes here. I’d pay to see somebody whip Maddow or Garafolo.


4 posted on 10/24/2009 2:53:06 PM PDT by KarinG1 (Please excuse any grammatical errors, as I was slobbering mad when I posted this.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY


Muslim Women Gone Wild!

5 posted on 10/24/2009 2:57:52 PM PDT by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; jesseam; BossLady; ladyvet; sheik yerbouty; 70th Division; blackbart.223; ...

American journalists should be made to watch this woman get lashed by terrorist wackos so they understand who the true enemies of America are. Many American journalists think Conservatives and veterans are the enemy. How twisted and perverted is that?

And, while we’re listing enemies of America, I think there are many in the current Administration and US Congress that could be classified as such.


6 posted on 10/24/2009 2:58:17 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“RIYADH, Saudi Arabia— A Saudi court on Saturday sentenced a female journalist to 60 lashes after she had been charged with involvement in a TV show”
Oh well, at least they are not whipping Gays.


7 posted on 10/24/2009 2:59:05 PM PDT by omega4179
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Too bad female journalists can’t be sentenced to lashes here. I’d pay to see somebody whip Maddow or Garafolo.

are you sure these are women??

I mean look at them....a bull dyke and a cootie skank.

8 posted on 10/24/2009 2:59:39 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: KarinG1
I’d pay to see somebody whip Maddow or Garafolo.

A bit kinky......but I like it.

9 posted on 10/24/2009 3:00:27 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: EGPWS

Sounds like a very kinky S & M type punishment by the King.

Is the King also into bondage?


10 posted on 10/24/2009 3:04:12 PM PDT by ncfool (Cash for Clunkers - A big failure and Obama and rats want us to trust them with our healthcare!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Islam is a religion of peace. Are you feeling the peace?


11 posted on 10/24/2009 3:05:42 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Just when the twelfth imam was about ready to come out of the well and this has to happen....


12 posted on 10/24/2009 3:08:07 PM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Vaquero

Unfortunately, it would be Coulter, Malkin, and Ingram who got the lashes here. Its who goes AGAINST the establishment that gets punished......


13 posted on 10/24/2009 3:18:16 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Paging Joe Francis,paging Joe Francis


14 posted on 10/24/2009 3:18:16 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Can you imagine how painful even one lash would be ripping the skin off your back?

This culture is barbaric. We should use all non-violent means to isolate them for these crimes against women and non-muslims.

“there have been increased discussions of reform in Saudi Arabia. However, attacks against Christians and human rights abuses have in fact been on the rise since King Abdullah came into power. The country continues to have one of the worst human rights records in the world, with flagrant abuses against religions other than Sunni Islam. Saudi citizens are denied the freedom to choose or change their religion. Any person involved in evangelism, including the distribution of literature, faces jail, expulsion or execution. Often false charges, such as drug-related allegations, are used against evangelists. Even foreign visitors are not allowed to gather together for religious worship.”
http://www.persecution.net/saudiarabia.htm


15 posted on 10/24/2009 3:33:43 PM PDT by garjog (Used to be liberals were just people to disagree with. Now they are a threat to our existence.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
In the animal kingdom they occasionally find “living fossils”, organisms that have somehow remained evolutionarily stagnant through the eons. The muslim world are our “living fossils”, still stuck in a barbaric neolithic world. Flightless birds, armored fish, muslims.
16 posted on 10/24/2009 3:39:52 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Hey! What is going on in those belly-dancin` Harems - 300 virgins per man?? We are just gonna hafta get “Girls Gone Wild’ on location there at University of Mecca!


17 posted on 10/24/2009 3:42:17 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (God bless)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, to the Muzzies TALKING about sex, constitutes a sex SHOW! I wonder if they made her take off her shirt and bra before the lashes?


18 posted on 10/24/2009 3:54:53 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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The guy who was the subject of the show, who bragged about boffing lots of Saudi girls in his bachelor pad, was sentenced to prison.

In the U.S. he would've gotten an invite to the Playboy Mansion.

19 posted on 10/24/2009 4:08:32 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Mr. Flyingsaucerballoonboymediawhoreman - this Bud's for you!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Featuring full facial and podiatrist-titillating nudity.


20 posted on 10/24/2009 4:10:06 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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