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A promotional video posted by Ghazi Al-Dhiyabi, a Snapchat celebrity in Saudi Arabia, about her wedding day preparations, has sparked controversy and criticism on social media in the Kingdom for “reducing marriage and women to one theme. of lust “.
Al-Dhiyabi posted a video on Twitter in which he appeared preparing for the wedding day, with scenes from his home, and one of the clips shows the couple’s bed decorated with flowers.
Al-Dhiyabi added the video with a comment: “Oh God, your servant has struggled with wishes and desires for many years for fear of your wrath and hellfire … And now that you have blessed him with a good wife, O God, write him a happy life, full of justice, prosperity, love, loyalty and serenity “.
Al-Dhiyabi’s video garnered over 4 million views on Twitter and nearly 11,000 comments.
Al Dhiyebi has more than 3 million followers on Snapchat and around 500,000 followers on Twitter and Instagram.
#wrestler_wrestler
Social media has interacted extensively with the topic under the hashtag # Ghazi_Al-Dhiabi’s wedding, launched by Al-Dhiabi himself during the promotion of the wedding.
While other activists launched the hashtag #Wrestler_Wrestler, in which most of the comments were negative.
Critics felt that Al-Dhiyabi’s commentary on his video, specifically the phrase “Oh God, your servant struggled with desires”, “shortened marriage and women only with the subject of lust” and that the plea he wrote “is not correct to say in public.”
Among the critics, there was a comment by Jalilou Al-Shamri, one of the famous social networks of the Kingdom, who invited celebrities, in a video posted on the Tik Tok platform, to “fear God and choose their words and comments carefully. . ”
Al-Shammari added that what celebrities are currently doing “motivates the new generation to view women as a craving for walking.”
Some believed that Al-Dhiyabi’s comment was unsuccessful and, instead of focusing on the question of wishes, the first was focusing on the importance of marriage in building family and society.
Others felt that Al-Dhiabi’s portrayal of the marriage bed, in all its details, was imperfect.
Other tweeters indicated that the clip posted by Al-Dhiyabi promoted many brands and that “causing controversy is the habit of most celebrities to market their ads.”
Religious discourse is the reason.
On the other hand, in addition to Al-Dhiabi’s many blessings on the occasion of his wedding, a group of tweeters considered the attack on Al-Dhiabi “unjustified”.
Maryam Al-Otaibi, who calls herself a Saudi feminist, asked about the campaign against Al-Dhiabi, saying: “All the people who are proud to have fought her instincts and conquered them have been attacked, or is this attack specific. of any male? who declares her virginity? “
Al-Otaibi added sarcastically: “Male societies deny the existence of a male capable of preserving his virginity, and such a model can dismantle the male system, why should the obsession with virginity be specific to women?”
Another tweeter felt that blaming Al-Thiabi is unjustified and that critics should understand that “the religious discourse of the past three decades has ingrained in minds the idea that marriage is linked to sex.”
Others believed that “fighting desires is one of the greatest acts of the believer” and believed that Al-Dhiyabi “did not make a mistake in pleading” and that attacking him was “unjustified”.