Here's one television show you probably won't be watching this year ... unless you live in Canada. The show is called Little Mosque on the Prairie, and it's bringing the funnier side of Islam into living rooms all over Canada.
The first episode aired this past Tuesday. Zarqa Nawaz, a Canadian Muslim originally from Pakistan, created the sitcom, which follows the congregation of a rural mosque as they try to live peacefully with the locals in a small prairie town. In the first episode, those locals are suspicious when a new imam comes to town.
But even getting to the town is a challenge for the new spiritual leader. While waiting in line at the airport, he makes the mistake of yelling into his cell phone, "If Dad thinks that's suicide, so be it." Um, he meant career suicide.
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