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| Afghan Leader Orders Crackdown on 'Obscene' TV Shows |
| 2013-04-25 |
[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... has ordered a crackdown on "un-Islamic and obscene" televisions shows in response to lobbying by the country's religious council, an official said Wednesday. Karzai told the culture ministry to block programs "which are vulgar, un-Islamic, obscene and violate social morality, and Islamic morality", according to a statement from his Council of Ministers. It said the move follows a request from the religious council to ban televised films seen as promoting vice and prostitution. Afghan society has liberalized since the fall in 2001 of the Taliban, who banned music and female education and prescribed punishments such as amputation and floggings. But it remains a conservative Islamic nation. Rafi Ferdous, a front man for the Council of Ministers, said Karzai's decree should not be seen as limiting freedom of speech or of the media. "The experience of the past 10 years shows that there are people, media outlets that have been exaggerating or misinterpreting the constitutional freedom of media and the media law," Ferdous told Agence La Belle France Presse. "They have been acting in a way which hurts rather than helps media freedom in the country." He gave no examples of the type of programs or films which might be banned in future. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I'd encourage him to watch "Archer". His turban would explode |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-04-25 12:04 |
| #2 How about Glee? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-04-25 11:51 |
| #1 What? He doesn't like Modern Family? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-04-25 11:50 |