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  • A Reality Show's Search for a Muslim Role Model

    08/08/2010 4:04:31 PM PDT · by Cardhu · 7 replies
    Der Spiegal ^ | August 6th 2010 | Nicola Abé
    It's like American Idol. Except in this Malaysian reality TV show, the goal is to find a religious role model. Young men compete in challenges such as washing corpses and ferreting out unmarried couples. The winner gets a MacBook and the chance to lead prayers in public. Nuri Ali Arbain had never dreamed of becoming an imam. But he also wasn't one to miss an opportunity, which explains why he was standing on a stage with the number 1801 pinned to his shirt, staring into the serious faces of the jurors and blinking into the lens of a television camera....