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Kiss-and-tell man gets jail and lashes

Agencies
Posted: October 8, 2009.
Published: October 07, 2009.

Print: Gulf News

Riyadh: A Saudi court on Wednesday sentenced a man to five years in prison and 1,000 lashes for boasting about his premarital sexual conquests on a TV talk show.

Mazen Abdul Jawad, 32, was convicted of of “publicising vice and confessing to crimes on a satellite television channel” for describing his sexual adventures in a July episode of the LBC television network’s Bold Red Line talk show.

The judge further banned him from traveling for three years after his release from prison, and recommended psychological treatment.

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The judge recommended psychological treatment?

No irony there then!

posted on October 9, 2009
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2. Corey Mondello

Oh how the Christian fundamentalists would LOVE this power in the USA…...the “good ole’ days” when there were “witch trials” and all that fun…until the GD Secularists took prayer out of school…than all hell broke lose.

posted on October 10, 2009
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If that is a Hall of Shame worthy news bit, why not this:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/10/maher_really_is_a_moron_on_med.php


Because Maher, who NEVER met Harris until that gig on Maher’s show, is on the B o A of reasonproject!

Grow some ethics, Harris!

posted on October 11, 2009
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So basically you’re saying that getting hit 1000 times and having every freedom of yours taken away for 5 years for the mere act of _speaking_ about sex is the same as Bill Maher being uninformed about medicine?

I know your user name says ‘Simpleton’, but come on!

posted on October 12, 2009
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I am never going to saudi arabia! The barbarism scares me too much. I have never been married and have had a few sexual partners.

posted on October 13, 2009
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One THOUSAND lashes!  Holy sh*t! (pardon the pun)

It is too bad about Maher though.  I was thoroughly depressed by that episode.  I know his views have been well documented, but all the sources were years old, so I hoped he had changed.  Sad.

posted on October 15, 2009
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Just proves what I always knew.  The koran is good for only one thing—wiping my ass after taking a huge dump.

posted on October 26, 2009
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