from the
nyt:
[On] "The Mission," a game show running on Al Manar, the satellite television channel of Hezbollah,...Contestants from around the Arab world compete each Saturday night for cash and the chance to win a virtual trip to Jerusalem.
The show is a novel way for Hezbollah to promote its theme - that all Arab efforts should be concentrated on reconquering land lost to Israel, especially Jerusalem.
this is so perverse as to be surreal. terror and militant islamicism are as pedestrian as Bob Barker in the ME...
but here's the thing: can a culture thats so embittered as to embrace suicide bombing coexist w a culture that has a game-show-watchin' media-literate middle class?