Saudi TV Airs Talk Show on Jihadist Websites' Impact on Youth

Posted on: Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 15:00 CDT Riyadh Al-Ikhbariyah Satellite TV in Arabic at 1830 gmt and Riyadh Saudi Television 1 at 1845 gmt on 1 July showed the first part of a new series of weekly programmes titled "Our Concerns." The series, which are produced by the Saudi Interior Ministry and presented by Abd-al-Rahman al-Husayn, deal with issues related to the impact of the Internet, especially Jihadist material, on Saudi youths' behaviour and actions. The programme is a recorded talk show to which a group of Saudi young men were invited together with a panel experts, it includes: Shaykh Salih Bin-Awad al-Maghamisi, preacher and prayers leader at Medina's Quba Mosque; Abdallah al-Bulayhid, the father of a Saudi youth arrested in Iraq; Abu-Sa'ud, a Saudi youth who used the Internet as the main source of looking for... [read full story]