 Pornographic material accounts for nearly 70 percent of messages exchanged through mobile telephones between teenagers in ultra-conservative Muslim Saudi Arabia, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Misuse of Bluetooth technology by young men and women is increasing, the English-language Arab News said, citing the findings of a recent study.
| Wonder what their definition of 'pr0n' is? |
Eighty-eight percent of girls have been “victims” of such misuse, it quoted study author and professor Abdullah bin Mohammad al-Rasheed as saying.
| Thus justifying the continued existence of the 'Committee for the Protection of Virtue and the Elimination of Vice'. |
The study focused on teenage boys detained by religious police for harassing girls in the Qasim region north of Riyadh. “The flash memory of mobile phones taken from teenagers showed that 69.7 percent of 1,470 files saved in them were pornographic and 8.6 percent were related to violence,” Rasheed said. Young men and women are banned from mixing in public in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, which enforces a strict Islamic moral code.
Bluetooth technology links devices such as mobile phones wirelessly. In a separate study of 1,200 women aged 18 to 25, Rasheed found that 82 percent of them use Bluetooth continuously, Arab News said. The paper said 99 percent believe the device has broken the barrier of social taboo and traditions and about 77 percent admitted they had used it even inside the grand mosque in Mecca, IslamÂ’s holiest shrine.
| I see a marvelous opportunity for a Bill Casey-like operative at the CIA. |
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