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U.S. Mideast plan: right idea; wrong, ham-handed approach --

By John Hughes

from the March 17, 2004 edition

US Mideast plan: right idea; wrong, ham-handed approach

 
When the Arab-TV version of "Big Brother" aroused widespread opposition among Bahrain's Muslim population, it was not too surprising. A commercial attempt at introducing the Arab world to the Western concept of reality television, it contained a first-meeting kiss between a young Arab man and a young Arab woman.

To most Americans, this might not seem particularly shocking. But in parts of the Muslim world such behavior borders on depravity, and the show was taken quickly off the air.

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