MIR: Al Jazeera-Ramadan TV & Fatwas

MIR: Al Jazeera-Ramadan TV & Fatwas

(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 3, 2008) Al Jazeera's Listening Post takes a look at this year's Ramadan TV and its controversies.

To many in the Arab world, they have become as much part of Ramadan as fasting: the dozens of musalsals, or Ramadan TV drama series, which are typically broadcast after the daily breaking of the fast to an audience of millions.

Now, Saudi Arabia's top judge Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaidan has spoiled the fun by calling for the owners of TV stations broadcasting what he called "immoral" TV programs to be killed.

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