Actually an interesting post today from Juan Cole on Michael Jackson's reported recent conversion to Islam and his influence in the Middle East. I'll quote directly and embed a great video as well.
Jackson is still enormously popular in the Middle East. Here is a Gulf tribute to the King of Pop. Given the stereotyping of Gulf Arabs as medieval and fanatical, and given the hurtful prejudice against their very form of clothing in the West, it is only right that they should have the last word here on Michael Jackson's universal appeal:
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