Al Arabiya 'Chickens-to-Terror' Promo Ad Is a Head-Scratcher

This video and story are too funny! If you eat chicken instead of soy, you are killing people and making them become terrorists. PETA would love it!


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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Al Arabiya via The Middle East Media Research Institute

WASHINGTON — Which came first: the chicken or the terrorist?

This and other existential questions are left unanswered in a recent promotional ad by the Dubai-based Al Arabiya television network.

In the ad, translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Al Arabiya tries to attract viewers by suggesting that they can learn the effect of local actions on global issues, and vice versa, if they watch Al-Arabiya's news.

But the message gets a bit muddied.

Click here to see the commercial with the translation by the MEMRI.

The ad begins with a man and a friend in traditional robe and head dress seated at a fine dining restaurant, asking the waiter for a grilled chicken dish.

Then the narrator cuts in: 'The preferred food for millions o"