{"id":3714,"date":"2011-03-11T08:23:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/03\/11\/cucumber-censored-in-islamic-foundations-tv\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T08:23:51","slug":"cucumber-censored-in-islamic-foundations-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/11\/cucumber-censored-in-islamic-foundations-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCucumber\u201d censored in Islamic Foundation\u2019s TV ad\u00a0|\u00a0Minivan News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCucumber\u201d censored in Islamic Foundation\u2019s TV ad\u00a0|\u00a0Minivan News<\/a><\/p>\n

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By Ahmed Nazeer<\/a><\/p>\n

The Maldives National Broadcasting Corporation (MNBC) has censored the word \u2018cucumber\u2019 from an advertisement produced by the Islamic Foundation of the Maldives (IFM), due to the potential for public embarrassment.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the advertisement, Sheikh Fareed asks viewers whether Allah created \u201cmen or the cucumber\u201d for women.<\/p>\n

President of Islamic Foundation, Ibrahim Fauzy, claimed the statement was a voice clip from a sermon Sheikh Fareed delivered in 2002 in response to an article published in a Maldivian magazine, which reportedly claimed that cucumbers were \u201cbetter\u201d than men.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that sermon he was arrested, but it was a response to a statement in the magazine,\u2019\u2019 Fauzy said. \u201cThe magazine was registered with the then Information Ministry.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Fauzy said that when the word cucumber was removed from Fareed\u2019s statement, it \u201cno longer makes any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey quit broadcasting the ad without even informing us. We noticed that the ad did not appear last night,\u2019\u2019 he said. \u201cWe went to the MNBC station to ask about it and only then did why learn why this was the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Executive of MNBC Mohamed Asif told local media that the advertisement had to be censored because of an \u201cembarrassing phrase\u2019\u2019, and that the station had begun reviewing the matter after removal of the offending vegetable.<\/p>\n

The advertisement was for Sheikh Fareed\u2019s \u201dFarewell\u201d sermon, to be delivered tomorrow night at the Artificial Beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCucumber\u201d censored in Islamic Foundation\u2019s TV ad\u00a0|\u00a0Minivan News By Ahmed Nazeer The Maldives National Broadcasting Corporation (MNBC) has censored the word \u2018cucumber\u2019 from an advertisement produced by the Islamic Foundation of the Maldives (IFM), due to the potential for public embarrassment. At the beginning of the advertisement, Sheikh Fareed asks viewers whether Allah created \u201cmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[171,172,36,8,177,175,34,174,80,176],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","tag-cucumber","tag-fareed","tag-islam","tag-maldives","tag-masturbation","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-press","tag-sex","tag-sexuality","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-XU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3728,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/03\/11\/is-the-sheikh-referring-to-the-small-and-oddly\/","url_meta":{"origin":3714,"position":0},"title":"Is the Sheikh referring to\u2026","author":"monochromist","date":"March 11, 2011","format":"quote","excerpt":"Is the Sheikh referring to the small and oddly shaped local produce, or the longer, straighter variety commonly impored. 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