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Afghanistan
Afghan TV fined for ‘unIslamic’ broadcasts
2006-01-22
The Afghan government has fined a privately run television station 1,000 dollars for broadcasting ‘unIslamic’ material, including raunchy clips from Bollywood movies, officials said on Saturday. A committee within the ministry of information and culture that monitors private television stations ruled against the Afghan TV channel last week, committee secretary Zia Wazir said. Wazir declined to give details of the offending material, saying only: “They had broadcast stuff that was against Afghan culture and it was unIslamic, but mainly it was unIslamic.” “The channel was fined 50,000 afghanis (1,000 dollars),” he said. Another ministry official said the channel had been accused of showing footage of half-naked people, including clips from Bollywood movies. Officials at Afghan TV declined to comment. Afghanistan’s post-Taliban constitution grants freedom of expression but conservative circles within the judiciary often pressure the government to adhere to what they call ‘Islamic values’
Posted by:Seafarious

#4  Hip, hip, hurray for Nation building.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-01-22 10:33  

#3  Is there a station fund we can donate to so they'll keep it up?
Posted by: Skidmark   2006-01-22 08:59  

#2  The smart thing for this TV station to do is fill its programming with all sorts of references to neurotic, sexually incapable, immature censors who hate and fear women and *anything* new.

If that is too blunt, then show them to be utterly ignorant of what is in the Koran, misquoting and making stupid errors, for which everybody on the street corrects them--which makes them mad. So instead they demand that the government *makes* everybody else follow their wrongheaded beliefs.

This same basic idea could be repeated in dozens of ways, but in the public mind should equate censors with buffoons. That is the weakness in their armor, and if done properly will eliminate much of the censorship in their society.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2006-01-22 08:37  

#1  'raunchy clips from Bollywood movies'


oooh how my eyes bleed ....
Posted by: MacNails   2006-01-22 06:32  

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