It’s nice to see that many in the Arab world are growing disgusted with the extremist views inherent in their society.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Arabs across the ideological spectrum, from secular-minded liberals to Muslim hard-liners, are denouncing a top Saudi cleric’s edict that it was permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV stations that show “immoral” content.
Many expressed worry the recent comments by Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan — chief of the kingdom’s highest tribunal, the Supreme Judiciary Council — would fuel terrorism, encouraging attacks on station employees and owners.
The edict, or fatwa, has also focused the spotlight on Saudi Arabia’s legal system because of al-Lihedan’s senior position in the judiciary. The system is run by Islamic cleric-judges, many of them hard-liners, and has increasingly been criticized by some Saudis because of the wide discretion judges have in punishing criminals and the perception that many judges are out of touch with the realities of the world.
Even conservative clerics who agree that Arab satellite networks show too many “indecent” programs said al-Lihedan had gone too far.
“Our religion prevents Muslims from watching films that provide seduction, obscenity and vulgarity,” said Sheik Hazim Awad, an Iraqi cleric, who, like al-Lihedan, is Sunni Muslim.
But “the real Muslim can just cancel (subscriptions to) these channels,” he said.
Many conservatives frown on the Arab world’s numerous satellite networks for airing music videos — often with scantily clad women singers — or Western movies and TV shows like “Sex and the City,” from which nude scenes are sometimes but not always cut.
Obscenity isn’t the only thing that disturbs some. On Tuesday, another Saudi cleric, Sheik Mohammed Munajjid, said the cartoon character Mickey Mouse should be killed. Munajjid said in an interview with a religious Web site that under Islamic law, rats and mice are considered “repulsive” and as “soldiers of Satan.”
So islam doesn’t even allow the freedom to choose what to watch or not watch on TV. That’s so emancipating! Where is that moron muslimah who is always babbling on about freedom and rights in islam???
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