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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."
This is the sort of thing that SJW's should be fighting against......instead they decide to focus their efforts on restricting speech in some of the most liberal places on Earth.
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So they had conversation. So what is the problem?
Islam
Saudi Arabia will never have to change as long as they have oil. Everyone is too busy kissing their asses to keep that sweet crude coming.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
next several years spark enough domestic.
International, yes, but domestic, hardly. I'm willing to bet that the highly conservative muslim population of Saudi Arabia is in favor of these sort of things.
If you look at the results of Arab Spring, the totalitarian regimes that were overthrown and replaced with "democratic" ones were done so with what I would not call forward-thinking progressive governments.
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Yeah, how could anyone "want" to live where their family is and their entire genetic line has existed for several millennia? Why don't they just pack up and move someplace better? Because it's easy.
To be fair a little dance is a slippery slope.
First you do a little dance, that leads to making a little love, and then you get down tonight. Get down tonight.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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.
Abu Sin knew what he was doing. Sometimes incarceration is a risk you take to try and make a cultural change or statement.
Abu Sin was a young boy talking to a woman. To say he fully understood the ramifications of his actions is absurd. He almost certainly knew it was a social taboo, but to say he was trying to make cultural change is really stretching. We do not know his intentions, but Occam says hormonal teenager trumps activist any day.
That said, this probably happens quite a bit with teenagers, just not out in the open. Then, afterwards, after the physical and mental scarring endured, these young men learn hate. And that hate is not towards his oppressors, the regime and religion that beat him down. Instead it is twisted at women or those who do as they did, that they should suffer the same punishments. This is how these types of systems stay in place and prosper.
Silence is a state of mime.
Saudi Arabia will never have to change as long as they have oil. Everyone is too busy kissing their asses to keep that sweet crude coming.
That dynamic has changed radically with U.S. LTO shattering oil prices and turning the United States into the new swing producer. The Saudis are already being forced to restructure their entire government, and while their cheap oil reserves still make them a major player, their influence in that regard has been severely curtailed. t. petroleum engineer
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.
It may be a matter of not sticking ones nose in another country's business: fix our own backyard first.
Meddling in the Middle East just seems to make things worse. If they wanna be medieval and keep resisting modernization, there should come a point where we give up trying to modernize them and instead focus on issues closer to home.
Table-ized A.I.
Christina: 'Today we are having our follow up split-screen live stream with Abu Sin in Riyahd. What up Abu!'
Abu appears in the split screen. He is in the middle of a public square, his hands are bound to a pole and his shirt is removed. In the background is crowd of onlookers and a large masked man in black unrolling a whip.
Abu: 'Whassup Christina Just chillin since our last stream, Yo!'
Christina: 'Cool. Do you like Beyonce?'
Abu: 'Totally, but my AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... favorite is Justin Beiber.'
Islam isn't a race, so not it's not.
The problem with that bill is very simple- what's stopping other countries from passing the same stupid law in their country so their citizens can sue Americans?
Nada.
So, in crossing that Rubicon first, we just green-lighted everyone else to do the same.
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