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Saudi Arabian Teen Arrested For Online Videos With American Blogger (theguardian.com)
Mazin Sidahmed and Nicky Woolf, reporting for The Guardian: A male Saudi Arabian teenager has been arrested in Riyadh over a series of online videos of conversations between him and a female Californian streaming-video star that went viral. A Riyadh police spokesperson, Colonel Fawaz Al-Mayman, said the teenager, known online as Abu Sin, was arrested on Sunday for engaging in "unethical behaviour" in videos with Christina Crockett, a popular broadcaster on the conversational live-streaming site YouNow. Abu Sin's real name is not known. "His videos received many comments and many of the commenters of the general public demanded for him to be punished for his actions," Al-Maymann added, according to the Saudi Gazette. The two amassed thousands of fans on the YouNow network, and later on YouTube after videos of the two speaking were uploaded there. The videos featured Abu Sin -- a nickname given to him for his broken teeth -- and Crockett communicating despite their significant language barriers. The popularity of the videos of the two of them surprised Crockett, she told the Guardian in an interview. As a broadcaster on YouNow, she can invite her fans to join her broadcasts on split-screen, which is known as "guesting."
Exhibit A why we should get off oil: no more money for that fundamentalist wacko government.
Saudi Arabia has laws banning men from engaging in any form of socializing with any women they aren't married or related to. Public lashing is a common punishment for those offenses, too, so it's not just a few days in jail that he's facing.
You can't talk to women. You can rape them though, even if they are barely old enough to bleed. And if they complain, they'll get convicted for extra marital sex. It's a great system.
But woman in video isn't subject to those laws
No, but unfortunately, as a Saudi, the man in this case certainly is.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatif_rape_case
I am Iranian and I grew up in an Islamic country (although I moved to Canada at the age of 16). I remember getting arrested for such egregious crimes as: 1) having long hair 2) talking to girls 3) one time just hanging out at a park with a group of friends! no girls this time. I got slapped around at the age of 15 by one of these "religion enforcement police" goons because he accused me of being gay because I had long hair (what??). They took me to jail and I was there till 3 AM and only after my mother begged and pleaded with them would they let me go. It was really hard watching my mother cry while surrounded by a bunch of goons. I had it relatively easy, but these Muslim fanatics have inflicted immeasurable suffering on so many young people in Iran/Saudi Arabia... Anyways, the problem IS Islam, and shame on you for saying he is racist. People like you confuse the issue due to their own ignorance. H