Saudi man arrested after boasting about sex on TV

If this were to happen in the U.S., what man would not be in jail?

A Saudi Arabian man was arrested after bragging about his sex life on television, CNN reported citing Arab News, an English daily newspaper.

Mazen Abdul Jawad appeared last week on a show on Lebanese channel LBC and went into "graphic details about his sexual conquests," according to the report.

Somehow I doubt "graphic" as used in this context is anywhere near what "graphic" is in most western countries...

A segment of the show "Red Line" posted on YouTube shows the 32-year-old talking about sex and foreplay and discussing losing his virginity to a neighbor while he was 14.

OMG, what a degenerate criminal!

In deeply conservative (that's a nice way of putting it...) Saudi Arabia pre-marital sex is illegal and unrelated men and women are not allowed to mingle.

A government official told the newspaper that discussing sex in public is a punishable offense that may affect anyone involved in the broadcast, CNN reported.

"It is wrong to host people on television to speak publicly about vice and issues against our religion," said Ahmad Qasim Al-Ghamdi, director of Mecca's branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the religious police.

"The program presents anomalies and deviancy in society that are unacceptable and immoral, and should be punished according to Shariah," he added.

Religious police...that's a heck of an oxymoron, if you ask me. Isn't religion based on beliefs? And aren't religious beliefs usually based on faith? Then why would any religion need police to enforce the beliefs believers believe?

Hope I didn't lose you back there...

About 100 people reportedly filed complaints against the poor bragging stud, alleging that he violated a principle of Shariah law by "publicizing his sinful behavior," among other things.

It is unclear what punishment, if any, Abdul Jawad faces, CNN reported, noting it was unable to reach Abdul Jawad or the Saudi Ministry of Justice for comment.

If there was ever a reason to not kiss and tell, this must be it.

Now, here's what irks me about this story and others like it: isn't murder a sin? Then how is it sinful and illegal to talk about sex, but it's legal and righteous to behead people in Saudi Arabia?

That's what you get over there for murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking, among other crimes.

If you're going to use religious and self righteousness to justify punishment for a sin against that religion, shouldn't the punishment be righteous and not sinful?

I suppose that would be expecting too much from humans who ironically believe they're above all other species on Earth--at the summit of Creation itself--because of their capacity for rational thought.

Source: CNN
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