The thinking capacity of the person will be curbed...

The thinking capacity of the person will be curbed, the blood pressure will become abnormal and the white corpuscles in the blood will be affected.

These waves will have lot of impact on the nerves and cause several illnesses.[^3] Dr Alexis Carl writes: The radio, television and inappropriate computer games destroy the emotions of the children."[^4] The Daily Ittelaat in its Issue No.15743 reports about a European student thus: “A college student aged 18 years was arrested and produced in the court.

He is accused of kidnapping the son of a film actor and demanding for a ransom of $ 50,000 and threatened to kill the child if the ransom money was not paid to him. In his statement to the court the accused confessed that the thought of committing the act came to his mind on watching a movie on the televisions depicting a similar act. .

The police is of opinion that several such instances have come to their notice that the youths get motivated to commit crimes on watching movies on the television. A ten years old boy in Mashad , after watching a Karate show on the television, kicked his friend so hard that boy collapsed instantaneously and died. [^5] The Deputy Minister for Education and Training, Mr.

Safi Niya says: "When the television is there to effectively provide evil lessons, the best of teachers cannot do anything!"[^6] (Majalla Maktab Islam, v 18, Issue 1) One Cuban boy, Ronny Zamora, murdered a 83 years old woman. He did this crime in Florida and is now serving a life sentence in a prison there. His parents have sued three American television channels for damages to the tune of $2,500,000.

He has produced evidence that the child had learnt about manslaughter from the television programs. Last September there was a hearing of the case in the Court when it was mentioned that when the child was small he was very fond of watching television and used to sit in front of it for eight hours at a stretch. A night before the crime, the youth watched a movie on the television where robbery at a rich woman’s house was depicted.

A pretty girl of fifteen years, whose name was Razaia, watched a horror movie on the television. She was so horrified watching the movie that she fell down dead on the ground. When she saw in the movie that a white person was scalping the skin of the head of a black girl in the movie, she shouted in horror and had sudden cardiac arrest. The doctors said that she had a brain hemorrhage.