Posted on 02/25/2015 3:35:30 PM PST by PROCON
Female members of Saudi Arabia's advisory Shura Council attend a session (AFP)
Saudi Arabia’s consultative assembly has passed a law requiring female television to wear “modest dress”, according to local media reports.
Arab News, which is part of a group of companies owned by King Salman's son Prince Turki, said the law passed in the Shura Council, an advisory body, will make it mandatory for women not to “show off their beauty” while on air.
The law will come into force once approved by the country's cabinet and will apply to “women media workers in the Kingdom” including on the MBC and Rotana channels, the chairperson of the Shura Council media committee Ahmed al-Zailaee said.
Some members of the council said there are other more important matters to focus on.
“There are many other pressing issues such as the danger posed by the media activities of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group,” Latifa al-Shualan, a Shura member, was reported as having said.
The new legislation comes after an announcement in January by the national Saudi Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) that it would implement a dress code for its female television presenters. The code demands that female media workers wear black headscarves and abayas (full-length cloak), which the SBC said would be decorated with the corporate colours of the relevant television channel.
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Probably zombies anyway.
I mean, who walks around in a cadaver bag???
The word cadaver, for some reason, has always sent a chill up my spine.
This seems like a good strategy to reduce tv viewing hours.
BTW, did you check out the gal, bottom row, 3rd from left....hubba, hubba...
Still waiting since 9-11-2001 to learn anything — anything at all — about Islam that isn’t completely disgusting and anti-life.
Hey, a gallon of Nair and all is good.
Shiite!!!!
I totally missed that.
She’s hot!
No really, she’s probably a sweaty mess under that gauze garb...
News Reporter wearing Modest Dress ,only problem is , Mumble Mumble Mumble,what she say
That word (cadaver) describes the concluding status of us all. Many, perhaps most people just don’t want to be reminded of that fact. It’s like a child being shown a printed up flowchart prediction of what their entire life will be. Some arrows pointing up, others trending down.
Meanwhile, All the men are sitting in the men only club watching porn all day.
I wonder if half those women aren’t dressed like catholic school girls, and french maids under their sack.
That’s why when Saudi businessmen come to this country when the plane lands, the first place they go to is the nudie bar.
No problem with MSNBC; no beauty at all there...
I guess they’re “Sharia Compliant”.
Yet they make their women dress in sacks to hide all their charms. Do any of these morons have the intellectual capacity to understand the contradiction?
Let’s pass a burka law that only applies to Andrea Mitchell.
Feel free to add other liberals to the list.
...a law requiring female television to wear “modest dress”....
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Perhaps I am just one of the lucky owners, but I have never caught my television wearing anything immodest. I guess she really has a firm moral foundation.
Considering what the pole dancers in bars back home have to offer, it's probably not surprising.
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