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CAIRO – It seemed like a innocent, if goofy, flirtation.
Abu Sin, a young man in Saudi Arabia, met Christina Crockett, a 21-year-old in California, on YouNow, an online community forum that allows people to chat publicly in real time.
He spoke bits and pieces of English. She spoke no Arabic. Yet over weeks of chats they found an often hilarious way to bridge their linguistic and cultural divides. Their conversations soon attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers in Saudi Arabia and around the world.
In one video exchange, Abu Sin – a nickname that means “the toothless one” because he had crooked front teeth – is wearing a black baseball hat flipped sideways. Blond-haired Christina is wearing a gray tank top. (Police told local media that Abu Sin is 19, but some have questioned that.)
“Christina, I love you,” says Abu Sin in broken English.
“I love you, too,” she replies, smiling.
Then he asks her, jokingly, to marry him. She tells him to wait, and draws a wedding band on her finger. “I want to marry you, too,” she says.
“Yes, yes,” says Abu Sin. “Thank you very much.”
Then, Saudi Arabia’s morality authorities found out about Abu Sin’s cyber romance.
In the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom, there are strict rules separating the genders. Virtually all public spaces are segregated, and most women wear head-to-toe black abayas as well as veils covering their face and hair. Unmarried men and women who mingle romantically often face harassment, heavy fines, even arrest at the hands of the religious police. If caught, women in particular face social stigma and punishment by their families.
So many young Saudis have turned to social media networks to pursue forbidden relationships. And the religious police have followed, monitoring online forums. Still, Abu Sin’s exchanges with Christina seemed harmless, since she lived thousands of miles away.
Nevertheless, Saudi authorities arrested him late last month for “unethical behavior” because of the chats, according to Saudi media outlets. His exchanges with Christina, according to lawyers, could violate the nation’s cybercrime law that bans creating online material that goes against morals and religious values, as well as its rigid interpretation of Islamic law.
“Abu Sin was jailed for violating decency and religious values,” Lt. Fawaz al-Miman, a police spokesman in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, told the Al Arabiya news website.
Miman told the Saudi Gazette newspaper that Abu Sin made “enticing videos” that “became famous” and negatively affected Saudi Arabia’s image in the world. He added that police had received requests from the Saudi public to have Abu Sin reprimanded.
One Saudi newspaper, Arab News, wrote that the teen deserved to be placed on trial because his video exchanges “made people laugh” at Saudis. Other commentators declared that Abu Sin’s chats were a reflection of how youth are being improperly raised in the kingdom.
Last week, Abu Sin was released on bail. He could face a five-year prison sentence and be forced to pay a fine as much as $800,000.
On Sunday, Abu Sin released a new video, lasting about a minute. In it, he promised he would no longer use social media in way that would violate the kingdom’s moral and religious codes.
He also said that he “repented” for chatting with girls on the Internet.
Poor bastard has a future of looking at women in tablecloths and the family goat looking better than the girls. The rats applaud because controlling the internet is what they strive for and in this instant it worked for the ruling class
I think a lot of the young men over there would be a lot less screwed up if they were allowed to take a girl out on a normal date.
They’ll have to wait for them to grow before they castrate him
aawwww, true love on the internet!!
Have pity on the guy, he was looking for something better than the local goats.
Don’t know what the woman’s motivation could be, she must just enjoy jerking around this poor lonely sap. It’s really pretty malicious of her, actually, assuming she had no interest in ever fulfilling his helpless goat-boy fantasies.
“2. Isn’t anyone appalled that non-Muslim women would consider having Anything to do with domineering Muslim cavemen?”
Not anymore, man, I realized most Western women are screwed in the head years ago.
And she looks like she is 12... maybe 14 tops. She’s supposed to be 21 and he’s supposed to be 19? Yeah he looks about 9 or 10.
Wonder if there are orthodontists in Saudi Arabia.
As Rodney Dangerfield would say, "Gee, tough crowd!".
My gosh her *Thing* has eyes!
I can’t judge the Saudi government overly harshly for this. They might have saved that Californian girl’s life.
Worse yet, teeth.
No wonder at all... especially when one’s exemplar is himself a murderous pedophile.
Good point.
As for the boy, he was merely wishing they all could be California Girls.
“In the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom, there are strict rules separating the genders.”
They are not genders; they are sexes.
Genders are linguistic concepts that need not be separated, since they do not propagate.
Some of the smartest most exact people are FReepers.
Thanks for making that important distinction.
RE: ““In the conservative Sunni Muslim kingdom, there are strict rules separating the genders.”
They are not genders; they are sexes.
Genders are linguistic concepts that need not be separated, since they do not propagate.”
I have been appalled since... circa 1982, when I had to work closely with an Iranian male.
Later, about 1998, I witnessed one of the most assertive, independent female co-workers I ever knew marry one. I literally never spoke to her again; he would not permit it.
As The Red Queen points out, high-dominance females desire a high-dominance male who can/will dominate her.
Feminists tend to be independent, and they - I assert - secretly find the utterly sexist and arrogant Muslim males more masculine and desirable than the neutered metro-whatevers they have created in American culture.
Biological truth will always ultimately win the day, no matter what communistic political correctness says.
Couple that with the spiritual depravity of a fallen humanity, and - no matter how appalling it may be - it is also understandable.
If I were 60 years younger, I would be looking for SS Trojans. ;^}
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