The Ayatollah Khomeini was famous for saying "There is no fun in Islam." (The Taliban bans kites, for heaven's sake. What could be bad about a kite?) This is the most hopeful thing I've seen from within the Saudi world in... ever. Anti-extremist sketch comedy. Curtsy: Instapundit.
UPDATE (with a curtsy in the same direction as above): Osama's a joke. The recent reports of his death began as rumors in Arab countries about bin Laden passing away in some inglorious and painful fashion (Typhoid was mentioned.) Actually, many of the "death reports" were actually jokes. Al Qaeda's fortunes have sunk so low in the Moslem world that he is being mocked, via jokes about his demise.
And: Zarqawi was about to be fired (text of a letter reported here previously). You really owe it to yourself to read the whole letter --absolutely fascinating.
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