“Cucumber” censored in Islamic Foundation’s TV ad
10 Mar 2011, 4:48 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Maldives National Broadcasting Corporation (MNBC) has censored the word ‘cucumber’ 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 “men or the cucumber” for women.
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 “better” than men.
“After that sermon he was arrested, but it was a response to a statement in the magazine,’’ Fauzy said. “The magazine was registered with the then Information Ministry.’’
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