Qur'an thumpers

I got home early today and decided to turn on the shortwave set and see what things are like in the daytime. On 15205 KHz I heard a beautifully sung Adhan, followed by a long sermon read in a monotone -- I could understand very little of it, but it had something to do with fasting and Ramadan and was peppered with ritual formulae such as "salla Allahu `alayhi wa sallam" ("may God bless him and grant him peace") and "radiya Allahu `anhu" ("may God be pleased with him"). The station identified itself as Radio Holy Qur'an from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It had a very strong signal.

Michael Jackson?

I'm listening to Radio of the State of Kuwait in English on 15490 KHz. The program consists of Western pop music interspersed with weird little mini-dramas about "the dignity of the civilization of our ancestors", sudden winds in the desert, and what not, read alternately by a man and a woman who sound like they're presenting a high school play.

They just played "Thriller", and now they're talking about the tents of Abu Nasir blowing away in the wind.