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Title: Curtsey to Theocrats: Kuwait Bans ->-bleeped-<-s (blog/commentary)
Post by: Natasha on April 03, 2008, 05:22:02 PM
Curtsey to Theocrats: Kuwait Bans ->-bleeped-<-s

Link (http://middleeast.about.com/b/2008/04/01/kuwait-cracks-down-on--%3E-bleeped-%3C-s.htm)
4/3/2008

"There goes Kuwait again, repressing in the dubious name of religion.
Earlier this month I noted Kuwait's fetish for bans--on women
performers, on women holding jobs after 8 p.m., on movies it doesn't
like, even on valentine's Day commemorations. Now comes its latest
ban: on ->-bleeped-<-s. This one is a bit more brutal than a ban. It
entails imprisonment and humiliation, too."