Kuwaiti Islamist MP says Star Academy destroys morals

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — A Kuwaiti Islamist lawmaker on Thursday urged authorities to ban a team from Lebanese reality TV show "Star Academy" from recruiting young Kuwaitis, saying the programme destroys morals.

"The recruitment of youth for a programme that destroys morals and fights our (Islamic) values is no less bad and dangerous than recruiting them for terrorism or for peddling drugs," MP Waleed al-Tabtabai said in a statement.

Tabtabai, who adheres to the rigorous Salafi current of Islam, said Star Academy "imports Western values that are rejected by our society, and is based on mixing members of the two sexes to teach them Western habits and practices that they want to spread among our youth."

He warned Information Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah...

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