"Name Your Favourite Terrorist" game show causes raised eyebrows
 

Lebanese game show raises eyebrows

A game show on a Middle Eastern television channel has contestants battling for points to enable them to step towards Jerusalem on a virtual map.

"The Mission" is being shown on the satellite channel al-Manar, which belongs to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Questions being asked range from the date of the French Revolution to the names of suicide bombers.

BBC News Online, quoting the New York Times, says the show has drawn criticism for being just a more subtle form of propaganda.

One US official told the paper the programme was encouraging violence, nicknaming it "Name Your Favourite Terrorist".

But al-Manar spokesman Ibrahim Musawi told the newspaper the show - which draws on contestants from across the Arab world - wanted to put its message "into a form that would appeal to a wider segment of the population".

Contestants compete for prizes of up to $3,000 (£1,600), and with each question they answer correctly they move one step closer on a virtual map towards Jerusalem.

Should a contestant successfully reach Jerusalem the show plays a favourite Hezbollah song which declares "Jerusalem is ours and we are coming to it".

Hezbollah, or "Party of God", emerged in the early 1980s and rapidly became the region's largest radical Islamic movement. Since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, it has shifted its focus towards the Palestinian cause.

It's now a mainstream Lebanese political party, with nine members of parliament.

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My favourite terrorist is George Bush!

My favorite terrorist is John Kerry.

He freely admits to burning villages, among other war crimes during his time in vietnam; and calls himself a hero for it.

Now that's my kind of terrorist. :ak47:

Sick sense of humor IMO

Lebanese..figures

This sounds like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch....

Shut up you moron