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To: Mike 2.0 who wrote (16235)	9/21/2000 12:25:05 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Thursday September 21 9:10 AM ET Politician: Sydney Olympics More Sex Than Sport dailynews.yahoo.com KUWAIT (Reuters) - An Islamist politician says Sydney's Olympic games contain more sex than sports and wants some events banned on Kuwait's state television. ``Some events, especially women's contests, have flagrant scenes which are unacceptable,'' parliamentarian Waleed al-Tabtabaie said in a complaint addressed to the information ministry and published in Kuwaiti newspapers Wednesday. ``Women's beach volleyball games, diving and synchronized swimming contests are not acceptable...they reflect Western norms that do not give a woman's body any of the respect, honor or protection which Islam and Sharia (Islamic law) have granted her,'' added Tabtabaie. The controversial MP has in the past protested against the staging of music concerts in the conservative state as well as celebrating St. Valentine's D