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The disappearance of Saudi’s royal rapper

Interesting.

Song is not bad.

Amplify’d from www.jpost.com

The protagonist, a young urban man in a leather jacket, sings of the seduction and dangers of suicide over a light R&B beat: “Everybody makes mistakes, but it’s no reason to lose your faith… It’s never too late to make a change, it’s never too late to make a difference, it’s never too late to find your way…”

The video takes on an entirely new meaning, however, when the viewer realizes the family name of the singer: Al Saud.

In a country in which music and dancing are forbidden, the public screening of any film results in a strict crackdown and suicide is the most taboo subject imaginable, it would be difficult for Prince Faisal Bin Mansour bin Thunayan Al Saud to have transgressed more cultural fault lines than by making an MTV-style rap video.

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Issues with social space for young population in Saudi Arabia

Awareness is a good thing.

Amplify’d from www.theglobeandmail.com

Saudi Arabia flogged a group of teenagers after a rare riot in the eastern region of the Islamic kingdom in which shops and restaurants were ransacked, a witness and local newspapers said today.

Human rights activists and liberals condemned Monday’s flogging, which Saudi newspapers said happened after groups of young people smashed windows of restaurants and shops in Khobar on Saudi national day last week. Analysts and diplomats say the case shows the challenge for the government to offer social space for a young population in one of the most conservative states and birthplace of Islam.

Newspapers such as al-Hayat and al-Watan said some 20 teenagers had received at least 30 lashes each. They showed pictures of police readying a square for the public lashings. “The flogging was carried out last night in public,” said a local journalist who witnessed it. Papers said some of the 20 youths were flogged in nearby Dammam.

Saudi police ready a square for public floggings in the Saudi city of Khobar September 28, 2009. Saudi Arabia flogged a group of teenagers on Tuesday after a rare riot in the eastern region of the Islamic kingdom in which shops and restaurants were ransacked, a witness and local newspapers said on Tuesday.
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Saudi girl crowned Miss Moral Beauty

This is absolutely nuts.  So let me get this straight, those who did not win this competition and those who don’t cover their face qualify for the title of miss immoral ugliness?

How is participating in a beauty pageant represents modesty or morality and why add to social pressures of labeling or shaming.  You can never judge inner beauty through interviews or how you are viewed in society.

Arabs needs to have their heads examined.

Amplify’d from ca.news.yahoo.com

RIYADH (AFP) - Saudi beauty queen Aya Ali al-Mulla trounced 274 rivals to win a crown, jewellery, cash and a trip to Malaysia, and all without showing her face, Saudi media reported on Friday.

With her face and body completely covered by the black head-to-toe abaya mandatory in the conservative Muslim kingdom, 18-year-old Mullah was named “Queen of Beautiful Morals” late on Thursday, newspapers said.

Hassan Ammar/AFP

There was none of the swimsuit and evening gown competitions and heavy media coverage of beauty pageants elsewhere when the contest was decided in the eastern city of Safwa.

Instead, the winner and the two runner-up princesses had to undergo a three-month test of their dutifulness to their parents and family, and their service to society.

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Saudi court sentences 75-year-old woman to lashes

Hey Saudi Police, the 75-year-old have hormones too, no?  No, your government should get their heads (and blip) examined.

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CAIRO – A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for mingling with two young men who are not close relatives, drawing new criticism for the kingdom's ultraconservative religious police and judiciary.

The woman's lawyer told The Associated Press on Monday that he would appeal the verdict against Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was married to a Saudi. The attorney, Abdel Rahman al-Lahem, said the verdict issued March 3 also demands that Sawadi be deported after serving her sentence.

He said his client, who is not serving her sentence yet, was not speaking with the media, and he declined to provide more details about the case.

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