So a priest, a rabbi, an imam, and a Buddhist monk walk into a room with 10 atheists… No, seriously. It’s a new game show called “Penitents Compete” proposed by Turkish TV station Kanal T in which converts would win a trip to either the Vatican, Jerusalem, Mecca, or Tibet. This sounds amazing to me. Of course, if you can find something awesome, you can look outside and there’ll be religious people picketing:
But religious authorities in Muslim but secular Turkey are not amused by the twist on the popular reality game show format and the Religious Affairs Directorate is refusing to provide an imam for the show.
“Doing something like this for the sake of ratings is disrespectful to all religions. Religion should not be a subject for entertainment programs,” High Board of Religious Affairs Chairman Hamza Aktan said.
Yeah! Making religion entertaining cheapens what religion’s all about: judging other people and bombing them for their beliefs.
Al-Aqsa TV is the official TV station of Hamas, and I think we can all agree its children’s programming is educational AND entertaining. In this clip from “Pioneers of Tomorrow,” Nassur the Hamas teddy bear talks about going to the Gaza Strip and joining the mujahideen to wage Jihad against the Jews. Awwww, what a cute little martyr!
This is actually one of the least unsettling clips from Comment Central’s Top 10 clips of Middle Eastern TV. Some of the highlights:
There’s also a piece from Kuwaiti TV on why homosexuals should be tortured in public squares. I actually didn’t watch that clip — I just figured it had something to do with the Jews.
[via TiFaux]
