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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.
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 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.
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