Afghan TV Gets Illegal Taste of Female Flesh

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Source: The Celebrity Cafe

Under Taliban rule, television was banned and women not sporting a burka were forbidden from appearing in public in Afghanistan. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, the country's government is now fighting a losing battle to keep female flesh off television.

The deeply conservative and male-dominated government normally has the power to impose fines or shut down broadcasters for showing sexy images of women. Now those strict guidelines are often violated without repercussion.

Without Taliban restrictions, Afghan citizens now have a large array of TV stations to choose from, be it news, cooking shows, cartoons, or Iranian dramas and Indian films, with their suggestively gyrating women.

In a move that would make even the FCC cringe, female flesh is given a full-time pixilation treatment. That is, blurry blotches are placed over bare arms, legs, necklines, and midriffs. But it's lazy at best for anyone who watches long enough will see abundant glimpses of the forbidden fruit.

Information and culture minister Sayed Makhdoom Raheen demanded last month that private broadcasters and cable operators follow government restrictions more closely.

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Tolo TV, the biggest private TV network in Afghanistan, has a full time pixilation department according to Director Saad Mohseni.

"They pixilate many things, including 'too much flesh' and any thing (that) may contravene our religious, cultural and social norms," he said. "It naturally makes things a bit more complicated, but we accept that we need to have this procedure in place for Afghanistan."

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[hedgehog]

1. I maintain that instead of sending over soldiers and drones,

we need to drop air-drop televisions, satellite dishes and rechargeable batteries all over Afghanistan.

[Clio the Leo]

2. The new Lady GaGa video?

:)

[LiberalFighter]

3. They should provide a feed to the Indian stations.

I bet there is a lot of exposed female flesh on programs in India.