Saudi divorces wife for watching male TV host

**PUGalicious** · 09-30-2007, 04:33 PM

A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.

The man, whom the paper did not identify, ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the paper said.

Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without resort to the courts.

This country is our ally?

**windowphobe** · 09-30-2007, 05:57 PM

This country is our ally?

Of course. And they pay us darn well for that alliance.

**Oh GAWD the Smell!** · 09-30-2007, 07:12 PM

Well we have people like this, and like this, so who are we to point fingers?

**PUGalicious** · 09-30-2007, 07:18 PM

Fair point.

**BailJumper** · 09-30-2007, 08:35 PM

Well, obviously that situation was not 'the norm' or it wouldn't have been reported in the newspaper.

**Dark Jedi** · 10-01-2007, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by Oh GAWD the Smell!

Well we have people and like this, so who are we to point fingers?

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**Oh GAWD the Smell!** · 10-01-2007, 03:27 PM

I'd be all over it if I thought for a second that I wouldn't put a "man injures himself while playing with home made trebuchet" headline trifecta in play.