Fatwa-issuing Saudi radio talk show host taken off the air
Dr. Laura wasn’t the only radio talk show host to lose a gig this week. Just the only rational one. The Los Angeles Times has the sad news about a fatwa-issuing Saudi Arabian talk show host who’s now out of work:
Dr. Laura wasn’t the only radio talk show host to lose a gig this week. Just the only rational one.
The Los Angeles Times has the sad news about a fatwa-issuing Saudi Arabian talk show host who’s now out of work:
Fatwa-issuing Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan has a face made for radio
No more fatwas for Sheikh Abdel Mohsen Obeikan, the Saudi cleric and royal court adviser who earlier this year earned notoriety for rolling out an eyebrow-raising religious decree that called on women to give men breast milk to avoid illicit mixing.
Saudi authorities on Wednesday reportedly pulled the plug on Obeikan’s radio program “Fatwas on Air,” a daily morning show in which Obeikan would go on air and issue fatwas – religious rulings — to the public on various matters.
Taking the sheikh off air appears to come as part of Saudi king Abdullah’s recent clampdown on the nation’s fatwa bazaar.
In a bid to stop unauthorized clerics issuing odd religious decrees, the king has reportedly put out a royal decree authorizing only members of the Council of Senior Islamic Scholars to issue fatwas from now on.
With a resume like this, we don’t expect Obeiken to be out of work very long. According to what we hear, CNN’s search for Larry King’s replacement has been narrowed down to Obeiken and Ryan Seacrest.
