Saudi TV in trouble for 鈥榮exual鈥 male dance
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A Saudi television channel apologized yesterday after a reality show in the strict Islamic kingdom featured a scene that critics denounced as “pornographic.”
Online users posted a purported clip from the Bedaya TV program that appeared to show men dancing. One stood closely behind another, held the man’s hips, and seemed to mimic a sexual act.
Social media users created an online storm over the scene from the show called “Increase Your Credit.”
With the hashtag “Pornographic scene on Bedaya channel,” they called for punishment of the “molester” and for the closure of the channel, which was founded in 2005.
“A dirty scene and broadcast on a highly viewed channel,” wrote Twitter user @mkhawe15. “The Ministry of Information must immediately stop the channel.”
A post from @FarraJIK called it “a dirty channel,” while @alamih42 said Bedaya had presented itself as an Islamic station “yet insults religion.”
Bedaya took to Twitter to apologize, saying mistakes could happen during live broadcasting.
“The act that took place by one of our contestants, an act which is not accepted by any logic, any religion, or moral values, was apologized for by the contestant,” the channel stated.
“The act was unintended by him, and he has repented to God.”
Bedaya added that the contestant had been disqualified and his act did “not represent the channel or its goals to spread values and morals.”
Yesterday afternoon Bedaya TV showed a live Quran reading from a mosque, and then a food show.
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