He boasted about his sex life on TV - now he's been jailed for five years (1 Viewer)

[Garygaz]

A Saudi man who boasted about his sex life on television was sentenced to five years in jail on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

Mazen Abdul Jawad was convicted by a criminal court on Sharia law-based charges relating to immoral behaviour, Sulaiman al-Jimaie said.

Three friends who appeared on the show with him were given two-year terms, Jimaie said.

In July, Abdul Jawad appeared on an episode of Lebanon-based LBC television's racy show Bold Red Line.

On the show, filmed in his Jeddah bachelor's apartment, he talked about picking up women and displayed sex aids and toys on camera.

The episode, viewed many times on YouTube, outraged many in the conservative Islamic kingdom and led to his arrest on July 31.

Jimaie said the conviction was wrong because Abdul Jawad should have been tried in a court that specialised in media issues, not the criminal court.

"My client has been presented to the people as a scapegoat to cover up the real culprit LBC," Jimaie said in a statement issued after the verdict was announced.

AFP

The funny thing about this is that I remember all these posters and hand outs during the week at UNSW talking about how we didn't know anything about islamic law and that there was a free lecture to explain more about islam and 'bridge the gap' in knowledge about their culture. I mean, don't get me wrong, any country that runs on religious law, whether it be hindu, islamic or christian is fundamentally stupid, but Shariah law seems to take the cake. I would have loved to have been at that lecture and seen them try and explain their way out of this or why woman are treated as second class citizens and why they don't contemporize their laws for a 21st century.

He boasted about his sex life on TV - now he's been jailed for five years

 

[Planck]

A great degree of the 'Sharia' that the wahhabis claim is Islamic is actually cultural.

For example, women wearing coverings, etc, all entirely cultural. No reference is made to it in the Koran.

 

[Garygaz]

A great degree of the 'Sharia' that the wahhabis claim is Islamic is actually cultural.

For example, women wearing coverings, etc, all entirely cultural. No reference is made to it in the Koran.

True, but that's the problem with religious law, you appoint a high leader, he does whatever the fuck he wants.

 

[Planck]

True, but that's the problem with religious law, you appoint a high leader, he does whatever the fuck he wants.

I'd say that's a core problem in most situations of power-creep.

 

[banco55]

A great degree of the 'Sharia' that the wahhabis claim is Islamic is actually cultural.

For example, women wearing coverings, etc, all entirely cultural. No reference is made to it in the Koran.

So they behave like savages due to their culture rather than their religion? Well that's alright then.

 

[Omie Jay]

I would have loved to have been at that lecture and seen them try and explain their way out of this or why woman are treated as second class citizens and why they don't contemporize their laws for a 21st century.

dammit, i so should've gone just so i could ask this.

 

[Bigboyjames lol]

suck shit. sex is bad

 

[Sprangler]

So they behave like savages due to their culture rather than their religion? Well that's alright then.

Yeah basically, the backwards religious laws are just a result of the backwards cultural laws that were already in place before the religion existed. The Arab Muslims in the middle east need to come out of the dark ages for the rest of the Muslims to be compatible with modern society.

 

[katie tully]

Hey
What's this?
Saudi Arabia?

Prompt me to give a shit at a later date.

 

[Bigboyjames lol]

lol non arab muslims actually believe that arabs are true muslims and therefore whatever the arabs do is true islam.

With that kind of mentality floating around you aint going to enter the 21st century any time soon,

 

[Riet]

So at the Bridge the Gap lecture they asked women to sit at the back and men to sit at the front. Awesome.

 

[Bigboyjames lol]

yallah bro riet, this is the true islam; why are you questioning it/? you are the non Muslim kaffir the al quran mentioned so vividly.

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

What do you expect? It's illegal to have sex outside marriage in that country, but it's perfectly legally to marry and fuck a 7 year old child.

 

[Bigboyjames lol]

What do you expect? It's illegal to have sex outside marriage in that country, but it's perfectly legally to marry and fuck a 7 year old child.

this is god's will. whats your problem bro? are you questioning gods will?

 

[Omie Jay]

So at the Bridge the Gap lecture they asked women to sit at the back and men to sit at the front. Awesome.

because they're inferior

 

[Bigboyjames lol]

because they're inferior

srsly what kind of shit muslim are you? yallah intemakhrubia khklhkh hkhk 2 woman are equal to a man.....dont you know this? khjkjkhkh h khk hkkhkhkh

 

[Riet]

Yeah wtf bbj I said it was awesome.

 

[Bigboyjames lol]

lol i dont want to be blasphemous, but i think the quran is wrong. 4 woman are equal to one man. and 10 jewish males are equal to one muslim male....i think that sounds correct.