Here’s “news” that should not be news but will obviously come as news to most Americans who never hear news like this: Muslims don’t like terrorism or Islamic extremists. From the Daily Telegraph (you didn’t think it would be in a US paper, did you?): Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world.
Excerpts: A blockbuster Ramadan television drama broadcast across the Arab world has broken new ground by daring to question the motives of terrorism committed in the name of Allah. The plotline of al-Hur al-Ayn (Beautiful Maidens), has…been hugely popular with an Arabic-speaking public fed up with the cliched portrayal of all Muslims as gun-toting fanatics….
The title of the programme is taken from the widely held belief that Islamic terrorists willing to become martyrs do so because the Koran promises them 72 virgins in heaven. In fact, the Koran makes no mention of 72 virgins and does not encourage suicide bombing or self-martyrdom.