News Let Freedom Reign
posted by on April 22 at 7:25 AM
Theocracy is on the march in Afghanistan:
In the latest battle of the long-simmering war between cultural conservatives and liberals, the minister for information and culture ordered television networks to stop broadcasting five soap operas on Tuesday, saying they were not in keeping with “Afghan religion and culture.”The minister, Abdul Karim Khurram, said last week that he had made the decision in consultation with the Council of Clerics, made up of the country’s most influential religious leaders….
President Karzai has signaled that he sides with the conservatives in the controversy over the serials. Although he said that he would ensure the freedom of the media while he was in power, he has said several times that programs that go against Afghan culture should not be allowed.
Well, O’Reilly and Limbaugh in this country would fall into the liberal category in Afghanistan. The comparison is disingenuous.
How many Afghans even OWN TV's?
I second comment #2.
Note that soap opera's are mostly watched by women. Daytime TV is some of the only freedom and contact with the outside that the women have access to in repressive islamic countries where women are mostly confined to the home. When the men are gone, they can at least breathe a little and watch the TV. Now they are even cracking down on that.
@1- Dan didn't mention O'Reilly or Limbaugh in his post, so what "comparison" is disingenuous?
@4: My bad. Jumped to a red-herring conclusion, and not cafinated earlier.
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