Facebook's nude Filipina fuels Saudi protest

The Philippine embassy in Saudi Arabia was flooded with e-mails from the Gulf kingdom’s citizens this week protesting the publication of a nude Filipina on Facebook, prompting it to intervene to have the picture removed.

After investigating the case, the embassy in Riyadh said it managed to locate the Filipino man who placed the photograph on his Facebook page and told him to remove it immediately, newspapers said.

“The embassy told the man to remove that picture immediately and warned all Filipinos in Saudi Arabia against such indecent behavior which could subject them to prosecution in the Kingdom,” 'Sabq' daily said.

'I have affair with my son-in-law'

A young woman called a prominent Saudi Muslim cleric on radio to tell him that she has an affair with her son in law and wants to repent.

The woman, in her 20s, said she could not disclose her name but asked Sheikh Gazi Al Shammari if this crime is pardonable in Islam.

“I am having a relationship with my husband’s son…I want to stop and I need to know how I can repent,” she asked the Sheikh on a live programme on MBC Panorama radio, according to the Saudi 'Sabq' newspaper.

“I regret to betray my husband and my lover’s father.”

Sheikh Shammari replied that she must immediately desist from the affair and ensure she does not wear any indecent clothes in the presence of her son in law. “Indecent clothes push most young men into incest.”
 

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