Ban women from TV, urge clerics

Bit by bit, our good friends the Saudis continue on their time travel back to the days of Mohammed. Bit by bit, the Imams impose more and more control (as if they had much freedom in the first place) over every aspect of the lives of Saudi women. Bit by bit women are forced further into a kind of living oblivion while being in plain sight.

FROM NEWS.AOL.CO.UK:

Ban women from TV, urge clerics
Last Updated: Monday, 23 March 2009, 05:51 GMT

A group of hard-line Saudi clerics urged the kingdom's new information minister to ban women from appearing on TV or in newspapers and magazines.
In a statement, the 35 clergymen also called on Abdel Aziz Khoja, who was appointed by King Abdullah February 14 as part of a wide reform drive, to prohibit the playing of music and music shows on television.

"We have great hope that this media reform will be accomplished by you," said the statement. "We have noticed how well-rooted perversity is in the Ministry of Information and Culture, in television, radio, press, culture clubs and the book fair."

The clerics' recommendation will probably have little effect because the king's reshuffle removed a number of hard-line figures and is believed to be part of an effort to weaken the influence of conservatives in this devout desert kingdom.