The aspiring imams are given clerical tasks to complete each week. The first challenge was to bathe and bury a body that had lain unclaimed in a morgue for a month. The man had died of an AIDS-related condition. They washed the body, wrapped it in white cotton, offered prayers and buried it, with some contestants shedding tears at the grave.

Izelan Basar, the channel manager of Astro Oasis, which screens the show, said: ''Seeing and handling a dead body is the most difficult ritual they could face as an imam. The 10 boys were brilliant, but the crew was not so good. The producer fainted and several crew members vomited.''

Good old Geerty's going for the Muslim vote again, I see. Is that what happened when Holland became the Netherlands?

But how often does Holland change the names of other nation states? Perhaps they could call "Australia" New Zealand and create a spiritual homeland for all the shepards.

He's a smart one, that Geerty. Amazing foreign policy analysis. I look forward to hearing more from him.

abu_rashid wrote on Jun 29^th, 2010 at 7:41pm:



It is pro Mulism. Jordan the country  IS Arab Palestine.

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Only in the feeble minds of half wits who base their knowledge on revisionist Zionist maps concocted a decade or so ago.

Karnal wrote on Jul 1^st, 2010 at 5:36pm:



Well, Donkey, what IS Jordan then?

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/twin-suicide-bomber-attack-leaves-tra...

muslims killing muslims ........

You are even more incoherent (if that is possble) than usual. Is this some sort of fundraiser by you - to type as much crap as you can? Is this your personal quest for revenge on sane people, trying to make us uncomfortable?

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If the politics of these lands did not result in people strapping bombs to themselves, or flying planes into buildings, or see carnage which displaces large numbers of their natives onto foreign shores, then I would agree with your statement Karnal.

We have a chicken and egg situation where everyone involved lays blame for the conflict at a predecessor of the other.
We are stuck in Afghanistan, fighting an unwinnable war, against a fanatical intransigent ideology, which can never be defeated while their remains a hate filled heart intent on training anonymous kids to blow themselves up in crowded places.

The options are all bad, stay and fight, for ever?
Leave and watch the lunatic fringe of Islam declare itself a sovereign state again, and see the propagation of a new terrorist stronghold to unleash it's bitter hatred upon the west?
If we do go with the second option, and see another 9/11 type event, do we then get all self righteous when Kabul gets blown to oblivion in retaliatory attacks?

All those who say that Islamophobia is just a biased prejudice, and that Islam is a lesser threat than many others we never think of, please supply your ideas on how to resolve the conflict in Afghanistan, which would not see us merely reset the clock to 9/11 2000.