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Syria: Blogger Calls for a Campaign Against Masturbation

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 @ 18:18 UTC

by Anas Qtiesh

Countries:: Syria
Topics:: Cyber-Activism, Health, Religion
Languages:: Arabic

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Syrie : Un blogueur vaut lancer une campagne contre la masturbation

Fadl, a Syrian blogger, takes advantage of the Muslim holy month Ramadan to call for a campaign against masturbation[ar].

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[...] say that upon reading about the anti-masturbation campaign I cracked up. Also, I posted about it on Global Voices, sans-sarcasm. Some people were amused by the idea and tweeted the link of the article and a friend [...]

# 2009-09-14 at 4:33 am

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