Middle Eastern Politics

It's all kicking off again in the Middle East. My money is on the Lebanese. They make better falafel and they do lots of exercise. All Moslems are incredibly fit - anyone who takes out a mat and does pilates five times a day must be in pretty good shape.
And they probably have some kind of god on their side; there's always a story of someone cutting open a falafel ball and it seeing the word Allah or E. coli.
But reading skills may not be the strong point of the Jihadists. Decreasing standards of literacy in the Arab world perhaps led to the rise in suicide bombers. The instructions on the bomb read 'Pull the pin. Step back. Run.' The poor readers only managed the first instruction and then the bomb went off. Just a thought.