AXJ SAUDI ARABIA AND AMERICAN BLOGGERS RAIF BADAW AND CRYSTAL COX IN TROUBLE?

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AXJ SAUDI ARABIA AND AMERICAN BLOGGERS RAIF BADAW AND CRYSTAL COX IN TROUBLE?

Apparently in today's world instead of going forward human evolution is going backwards in time. According to CNN News Mr. Raef Badawy has been in prison and removed from his family by the Authorities in Saudi Arabia that many Americans are now considering hostile to the principals of the United States of America ( USA ). But wait, and American Citizen named Crystal Cox has just been sentenced to pay $2.5mm USD for creating and running a blog in the USA. Read: https://axjusa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/axj-will-defend-crystal-cox-...

Now it turns out that something so silly like creating a website on the internet and call yourself a "blogger", is a dangerous thing, and you can be tried and convicted of a crime and pay with your bones in prison? Something is not right here.

We attach the news published on the CNN website below but here at AXJ USA we are still in awe and bewilderment and wondering what ever happened to our First Amendment Right to Free Speech? A website is like a Channel on Television. Nobody obligates you to buy a Television Set. Nobody obligates you to turn it on it you have one. And nobody obligates you watch anything you don't approve of. If you don't like the program, then just change the channel.

The same holds true for the Internet. Nobody obligates you to buy a computer. Nobody obligates you to turn it on. And nobody obligates you to connect it to the internet. If you do, nobody in the world obligates you search for AXJ and read these comments and opinions which we can call a "blog".

This also goes for the "blog" created by Crystal Cox which you can read by going here: http://www.crystalcox.com/ and she can be contacted on: 1 ( 406 ) 624-9510 and by email to: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

We would also like to take this opportunity to thank Monica Foster for her wonderful webcast regarding her advice to parents to keep their children and teens away from the porn industry.

Published on Mar 18, 2013

In this webcast of Monica At Home : Christian Pornstar edition - Monica Foster shares why she feels it's very important for parents to keep their children and teens away from the families of pornographers and various other porn professionals (studio owners, pornstars, porn industry attorneys, porn distributors, etc).

Monica Foster explains that in many cases, the children and teens of pornographers and other porn professionals are highly sexualized at a very young age due to their parents occupations and lifestyles - and therefor are apt to introduce sex, sexually attack and/or corrupt the mindsets of children and teens they come into contact with from traditional (non adult entertainment industry attached) families.

This webcast features clips of Sunny Lane's parents (who's attitude toward porn much of the general public would find highly disturbing), James Deen (who relates that he was aware of porn at the age of 6 - in Kindergarten) and Demi Delia aka XXX Mommy who's teenagers appear to have been conditioned into thinking a career in porn is "normal" at a very early age.

Monica questions in this webcast why porn industry and hypocritical "Freedom of Speech" attorney Marco Randazza claims to want to protect his daughter's reputation while simultaneously defending the likes of porn studios such as Hustler who ruin the reputations of the daughter's of America every year via their "gateway to child porn" series "Barely Legal" (which depicts very young women who are presented with an image that parallels that of a minor). Monica conveys that in the future Randazza's actions and career choices may prompt the parents of his children's peers to encourage their children not to associate with his family.

Monica concludes with her thoughts and concerns in regards to the Los Angeles porn industry's increased use of children's themes in their xxx features and suggests that parents get to know the parents of who their children and teens socialize with.

In addition Monica states that she feels it may be a good idea in the future for the scholastic system to create a "watch list" comprised of children and teens who's parents are pornographers and/or Los Angeles porn industry professionals. Especially in the wake of the Steubenville rape incident and the revelation of ex-pornstar Traci Lords having been raped at the age of 10 in the same town.

Family pleads for jailed Saudi blogger

By Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN

updated 12:40 PM EDT, Fri April 5, 2013

Source: CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Rights groups say Saudi authorities are targeting activists through the courts, travel bans
• Blogger Raif Badawi has been in prison since June, charged with violating Sharia law
• His family has been effectively ostracized, waits for him in Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- The message the brother and sister read aloud is one addressed to a missing father: 9-year-old Najwa and 8-year-old Tirad reciting the words in unison, "Our mother's starting to worry about you."

Their mom, Ensaf Haidar, is indeed worried, but she's also pained. She knows how much her children yearn to see their dad, but she just doesn't know what to tell them.

How can she begin to explain that their dad has languished in a Saudi prison for almost a year? How can she expose her kids to a brutal reality she feels they're not ready to face?

"They're always asking me, 'When is Dad coming home?' " Haidar said. "Telling me, 'Mom, I miss Dad so much.' "

Haidar struggles with the dilemma every day.

"It often feels like the world is against me," she said. "When I see how the children are deprived of their father, this is what bothers me the most."

Her three children, including 5-year-old Myriam, think their father's just delayed by work. But Raif Badawi, 30, has been imprisoned since being arrested in June. He is accused of, among other things, breaking Sharia law and starting a website that infringed on religious values.

Raif Badawi has been in prison since June. He is accused of starting a website that infringed on religious values.

According to Haidar, her husband just wanted to encourage discussion about religion in his homeland. But starting a liberal Internet forum in conservative Saudi Arabia can be a dangerous pursuit.

"No one wanted to take his case," said Waleed Abualkhair, Badawi's attorney. "Because they believed that anyone who'd take this kind of case, that means he destroys his (own) reputation. But I don't believe in that. I believe that everyone has his right to have a lawyer. And I believe that Raif is innocent."

Abualkhair is more than just Badawi's attorney. He's also his brother-in-law and a fellow human-rights activist also on trial in Saudi Arabia.

Talking over Skype because he's been banned from traveling outside Saudi Arabia, Abualkhair describes how he's been accused of "speaking to the foreign media with the intention of harming the country's reputation." He said any activist who calls for reform there is in danger of being arrested.

Rights groups agree, accusing Saudi authorities of targeting activists through the courts and travel bans. Many were outraged when two of the country's most prominent reform advocates, Mohammed Al-Qahtani and Abdullah Al-Hamid, were recently sentenced to 10 years in prison apiece.

Amnesty International called that trial "just one of a troubling string of court cases aimed at silencing the kingdom's human-rights activists."

"Here's the thing," Abualkhair said. "The government of Saudi Arabia, they want to show themselves outside Saudi Arabia that they are modern, that they are open-minded, that they want to change, they want to reform, that the problem is coming from the society, and that the society moves slowly. They keep saying that for the foreign media.

"But actually inside, when we act with our society, when we want to reform, when we want to do something with our society, they keep punishing us."

CNN has made several attempts to reach Saudi Arabia's Justice and Interior ministries for comment but received no response.

Asked in January about accusations that Saudi Arabia is cracking down on dissent, Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, told CNN, "At the Interior Ministry, our area of responsibility is security."

He added, "My understanding is that these cases are being looked at by the courts now. Nobody will comment on cases being looked at by the courts."

Badawi's legal troubles started shortly after he started the Free Saudi Liberals website in 2008. He was detained for one day and questioned about the site. Some clerics even branded him an unbeliever and apostate.

According to Badawi's wife, he started his website to encourage discussion about religion in his homeland.

According to Haidar, she and Badawi began receiving death threats. Fearing for their and their children's lives, they planned to move the family out of Saudi Arabia in 2009. That was before they discovered Badawi had been placed under a travel ban and that his business interests had been frozen, depriving them of a source of income.

In July, Human Rights Watch released a statement urging Saudi authorities to free Badawi.

"Saudi authorities should drop charges and release the editor of the Free Saudi Liberals website for violating his right to freedom of expression on matters of religion and religious figures," a statement from the group said.

Today, Haidar lives in Lebanon with the kids. She feels safer, but life's become a lot lonelier. Estranged from her family, Haidar said it would be impossible to take her children back to Saudi Arabia. The stigma is too strong there.

"You feel like everybody's accusing you," she said, close to tears. "Like everybody's against you, at war with you."

According to Abualkhair, the Saudi Arabian government has little tolerance for activists who speak out.

"They didn't punish just (Badawi)," Abualkhair said, describing how Badawi and those closest to him have effectively been ostracized. "They punish his family. Actually, they punish their future."

Abualkhair said that even if Badawi is eventually released from prison, his future has been ruined.

"They destroyed his image in our society (by saying) that he's against our Islam," Abualkhair said.

Abualkhair said Badawi fears he'll be kept in prison indefinitely.

"What he's afraid of," he said, "is that they just want to keep him in prison without judgment for a long time, like what's happened now. Ten months without any judgment. They just moved his case from a court to another court to keep him in jail for a long time."

Haidar misses her husband more with each passing day, but she said all she can do is wait. Her children's questions become ever more pressing as she grows more desperate.

"At the end of the day, you find there's nobody to give you hope," she said. "Everybody is silent about the case. Nothing is moving forward."

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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/05/world/meast/saudi-blogger-jailed/inde...