Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority slammed Turkish soap operas, now hugely popular in the Middle East, as being "evil" and "un-Islamic", a local newspaper reported Monday
The country's head of the Higher Council of Religious Scholars, Sheikh Abdel-Aziz al-Sheikh, told a seminar in Riyadh that it was not permitted to watch Turkish soap operas, according to the Saudi Gazette.
Warning Arab television channels that broadcast them, al-Sheikh said those channels would be perceived as waging a war on God and Islam if they helped to make those soaps more popular.
Those soap are "full of wickedness, evil and moral degradation," he said.
Riyadh - Saudi cleric Saleh al-Luhaidan, chairman of the Saudi Supreme Judicial Council, has issued a fatwa permitting the murder of the owners of Arabic satellite TV channels which broadcast programmes that encourage immorality, media reports said Friday.
Riyadh - Saudi Arabian police have arrested five men on charges of being involved in preparing internet propaganda in support of al-Qaeda, the Arabic television station al-Arabiya has reported.
Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has banned birthda
Riyadh - After a major frenzy over two widely-viewed Turkish soap operas the Saudi Trade Ministry has started to shut down stores that sell t-shirts with pictures of the good-looking soap stars on them, reports said Thursday.
