Taliban threat cancels soap in Jordan
17/10/2004 - 12:39:14After a week-long advertising blitz, Jordan abruptly cancelled plans to broadcast a soap opera about Afghanistan after an internet threat to ”strike” everyone from actors to TV executives if the show portrayed the Taliban in a negative light.
The Dubai-based Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, however, went ahead with its scheduled programming and aired the soap opera’s second episode on Saturday night.
The series, “al-Tareeq ila Kabul” – Arabic for “the Road to Kabul” - chronicles life under Afghanistan’s former Taliban rulers, and was to be aired during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which began on Friday in most Muslim countries.
