Comments on: Dude, What’s with the Lashing?

By: CPVPV in KSU, Discrimination at KAUST, Limits on Lashing « Saudi Jeans

CPVPV in KSU, Discrimination at KAUST, Limits on Lashing « Saudi Jeans — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:12:40 +0000

[...] the typical Saudi approach of trying not to offend anyone. How about going 300 steps further and stop lashing once and for all, except for those very few cases explicitly specified in Quran? This entry was written by [...]

By: Godel

Godel — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:58:03 +0000

what about the truth, integrity of these journalists regardless of any gender?!! I think this very thing was overlooked by main stream media!!
also that just reflection the qualities & principals this TV station stands for…
Regards

By: enchi

enchi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:58:25 +0000

i think you may be onto something with the fetish angle..

By: somo

somo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:08:47 +0000

law of lashes

By: norah

norah — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:46:24 +0000

I completely agree with you Ahmed.. This has got to stop
There are specific instances when lashing is considered a (7d) for committing a crime, but nowadays it seems like lashing is the way to go for any crime !

By: Chiara

Chiara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:57:01 +0000

Ahmed–off topic (or maybe on depending on your view of ethics)–I just did a post on Tara’s blog linking yours and would really appreciate your comments on the topic of Blogging and Ethics. Thanks.

http://taraummomar.blogspot.com/2009/10/blogging-ethics-part-i-fhws-elsi.html

By: Abul Layth

Abul Layth — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:53:42 +0000

Bro, lashing does not even hurt! I’d rather a lashing than years in prison!

I do get your point though! The dude should not have been airing his zinaa on the boobtube anyhow. What an idiot!

By: Chiara

Chiara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:45:21 +0000

Saudi Jawa–excellent points, although I believe it is the journalist herself who said that the sentence was intended as a deterrent. Fortunately for her, she was not involved in the making of this particular episode.

The interview, the producer, the director, cutting room, and the editor, all have an impact on who says what and how on camera and what parts are aired or not. In that sense I do believe it is highly possible that Mazen was duped, egged on, and lead astraym and then his interview edited to the demands of the LBC or The Redline. Of course I don’t believe in flogging any of them by Mazen is far from alone in this. Infact he is probably the only non-media savvy one and in that sense is more innocent than the others.

By: Aafke

Aafke — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:11:43 +0000

It’s the job of a journalist to report. No journalist can be held responsible for what the interviewee is blurting out. So she shouldn’t have been in court in the first place.

Saudi Jawa, that is even worse! So they just want to lash somebody and construct a weird reason for doing so.

Why the judges are so fond of lashings? I can only suppose those old lecherous goats get off on it when watching a pretty young woman (or boy) being tortured.

By: Saudi Jawa

Saudi Jawa — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:44:24 +0000

I’m astonished that some people have hinted that Rozanna actually participated in the program where Mazin ousted himself. That is not the case. Her only connection with the case is that she works for the station. She had nothing to do with the program, and the judge in question actually acknowledged that fact. He was punishing her for “working for an unlicensed TV station” and as “deterrence”.