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Role reversal Saudi comedy provokes anger among male population
Telegraph ^ | 8/17/10 | Richard Spencer

Posted on 08/18/2010 10:13:29 AM PDT by LibWhacker

A role reversal comedy shown on Saudi television in which a woman marries four husbands has hit the very nerve it satirised - male pride and double standards.

The comedy was an episode in Saudi Arabia’s most celebrated satirical series, Tash Ma Tash or No Big Deal, a take-off of social prejudices shown annually during the holy month of Ramadan.

The central character takes four husbands, explaining herself using the conventional arguments Saudi men use to exercise their legal and religious privilege of marrying four times.

When she remarries for the first time she complains that her existing husband has stopped caring about his looks after five years, and is preoccupied with work.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comedy; reversal; role; saudi
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1 posted on 08/18/2010 10:13:32 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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Oh, oh. Some producer’s getting beheaded....


2 posted on 08/18/2010 10:14:58 AM PDT by Politicalmom (A racist is a conservative who is winning an argument with a liberal.-FReeper Freespirited)
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To: LibWhacker

Women have little or no rights in the Middle East.

Women are considered less than second class citizens.

Women in the Middle East are treated like cattle, no better than that.

It is amazing to me that there are women who even follow the Muslim or Islam religion considering how they are treated under those so called religions.


3 posted on 08/18/2010 10:19:45 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: LibWhacker

Hahahahaha. The woman in this thing is very brave.


4 posted on 08/18/2010 10:22:08 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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To: Politicalmom

No! Not going to happen - “one of King Abdullah’s favourite programmes.”


5 posted on 08/18/2010 10:26:26 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: Ev Reeman

And the men there obviously feel they can justify it, “Because it’s our religion!”


6 posted on 08/18/2010 10:26:30 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: LibWhacker

Wow! I hope whoever made this show stays safe.

Bravo to them—very courageous.


7 posted on 08/18/2010 10:27:40 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (my former tagline "We can, and we will prevail" doesn't fit with the usurper's goals.)
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To: LibWhacker

Islamic Comedy... another oxymoron.


8 posted on 08/18/2010 10:27:57 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: I am Richard Brandon

One of the most dangerous scenarios in the world would be an armed uprising in Saudi Arabia with the hardline activists taking control of the western part of the pennisula (including Mecca and Medina) and leaving the house of Saud in control of the east and all the oil.


9 posted on 08/18/2010 10:28:46 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: LibWhacker

I am sure this will cause some Islamic Terrorists to behead a few women and infidels...maybe even an excuse to build the Islamic Terrorist Hall of Fame near the WTC site


10 posted on 08/18/2010 10:28:53 AM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (JD for Senate ..... jdforsenate.com. You either voting for JD, or voting for the Liberal...)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
One of the most dangerous scenarios in the world would be an armed uprising in Saudi Arabia with the hardline activists taking control of the western part of the pennisula (including Mecca and Medina) and leaving the house of Saud in control of the east and all the oil.

That would be a perfect opportunity to turn mecca and medina into radioactive glass. I fail to see the problem.

11 posted on 08/18/2010 10:32:10 AM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

—yep—IIRC, the Ayatollah made the statement that “there is no humor in Islam”-—


12 posted on 08/18/2010 10:32:10 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Politicalmom
Last week, an episode also provoked controversy, portraying two men who visit the brother of their dead mother, a foreign-born Arab, only to discover he is a Christian priest.

The shock lies in discovering that despite his religion, they come to respect him for his honesty and generosity.

Yup, those producers have a death wish....or are very well connected.

13 posted on 08/18/2010 10:36:47 AM PDT by SC Swamp Fox (Aim small, miss small.)
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To: LibWhacker

gee they exported the feminist PC (girly man, unwatchable) “My Boys”.


14 posted on 08/18/2010 10:39:05 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Shuuush.. the Saudis do not even KEEP women or child abuse records..
BUT they are aware of them in the U.S..

**Note: The Quran advocates abusing women and children.. because in the Quran they are on the level of animals.. Pretty much anything is allowed.. even worse than some sex cults in the U.S... because it is LEGAL THERE... Marriage there is like owning a pet.. but in the U.S. some things are illegal perpetrated on pets....

15 posted on 08/18/2010 10:40:06 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: LibWhacker
The central character takes four husbands...

The problem really surfaced when she took a picture of her husbands.


16 posted on 08/18/2010 10:40:06 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the world safe for Marxism)
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To: LibWhacker
Dear Mullah,
My wife watched Tash Ma Tash and laughed at the skit with the woman who had four husbands. Then she said that she wanted a Syrian husband too. How may I punish her?

Akmed.

Dear Akmed,
If she had merely watched and laughed at the accursed television, then you would be entitled to cut out her tongue and one eye. But since she said she wanted another husband she has committed adultry in her heart and will have to be stoned too.
The Mullah

17 posted on 08/18/2010 10:40:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: LibWhacker

Sounds pretty funny, especially the episode about the brother that becomes a Christian priest.


18 posted on 08/18/2010 10:46:56 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: rellimpank

Apparently that’s not what King Abdullah believes.


19 posted on 08/18/2010 10:48:47 AM PDT by stuartcr (Nancy Pelosi-Super MILF.................................Moron I'd Like to Forget)
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To: KarlInOhio

Hilarious! LOL


20 posted on 08/18/2010 10:49:22 AM PDT by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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