"The baby face of hate" and the "true Muslim faith," part I

Arab Radio and Television Network (ART) is a Saudi-based company with transmission facilities in Italy which describes itself as "the leading producer of premium Arabic family programming and entertainment worldwide." Its subsidiary, Iqraa Television, is ART's effort to provide "a focused insight into the teachings of the Quran" to "intellectual, elite, and conservative Islamic markets."

As The Weekly Standard's David Tell writes in his article "The Baby Face of Hate: MEMRI (the Middle East Media Research Center) releases an astonishing example of the "true Muslim" faith," Irqaa Television "is widely watched...and is hair-raisingly insane."

An interview with Prof. 'Adel Sadeq, head of the psychiatry faculty at 'Ein Shams University in Cairo, for example.

Professor Sadeq beams with glee as he explains how Western civilization "has no concepts such as self-sacrifice and honor," which is why Americans fail to understand that the suicide bomber experiences "the height of ecstasy and happiness" just at the moment when, "ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and then he presses the button to blow himself up." Big smile.

Then there's the program on "discipline in the family," featuring one Jasem Al-Mutawah, an "expert on family matters," who "patiently describes to his viewers where on her body, how severely, with what weapon, and under what circumstances a man should beat his wife."

More to come in Part II...