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Old 11-11-2003, 10:33 AM   #1
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11/11/2003: De-faced products in Saudi Arabia



This is a Safeway (really? so the cap says) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It turns out that there's a government censor whose job it is to scribble out all the women's faces on all the imported products, since their favorite form of way-strict Islam restricts ANY display of women's faces, even on packaging.
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Old 11-11-2003, 10:56 AM   #2
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It sure is good they did that, 'cause now I have no impure thoughts!
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Old 11-11-2003, 11:00 AM   #3
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I wonder how much of a demand for hair-coloring products they have over there.
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Old 11-11-2003, 11:13 AM   #4
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Hey, somebody's gotta defend all those pure men from the Western girl pictured on the front, who is described quite directly as "Nice 'n Easy." Scandalous!
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Old 11-11-2003, 11:40 AM   #5
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Good point, hp.... I assume they already took the "Nasty & Easy" ones off the market there.
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Old 11-11-2003, 11:46 AM   #6
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They didn't do a very good job of censoring. It's kind of a half-assed job if you ask me. It doesn't stop you from seeing anything.
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Old 11-11-2003, 11:51 AM   #7
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That was the point of my post, me too-er.
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Old 11-11-2003, 11:53 AM   #8
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How dare you!
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Old 11-11-2003, 01:57 PM   #9
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What do you expect? It's a government job, just because it's a religious duty too doesn't mean it gets done any less half-assed than any other government job.

There's something really funny about hair coloring products for a market where the women tend to keep their hair covered. Even more so when most of them are dark-haired enough that the products shown will have little effect.
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Old 11-11-2003, 05:05 PM   #10
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Now that would be one damned wierd job.
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Old 11-11-2003, 05:49 PM   #11
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Arabian Joke

What a joke! How can these people take themselves seriously? I usually pride myself on having an open mind but displays like this really bother me. Imagine you were walking down the supermarket aisle looking for that favourite hair product or moisturiser and all the womens faces had been scribbled on. Absolutely ridiculous! And this is only the tip of the iceberg - I could rant for pages about how wrong the Muslim faith is in pretty much everything they do but I wont.
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Old 11-11-2003, 06:58 PM   #12
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If this is what happens on store boxes, I wonder what they do to television...
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Old 11-11-2003, 08:07 PM   #13
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A government censor is stationed in every household to hold little boxes over all female faces on the tube.
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Old 11-11-2003, 08:27 PM   #14
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Or as stuff shows on TV, someone starts scribbling over their faces like this:

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Old 11-11-2003, 08:29 PM   #15
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The blonde got a veil instead of the full burqua. Hmm.
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