How-diddly-doo Omar Shamshoon!

Omar Shamshoon, is just like Homer Simpson, except, as David at Israellycool notes, he's not funny:

"Omar Shamshoon," as he is called on the show, looks like the same Homer Simpson, but he has given up beer and bacon, which are both against Islam, and he no longer hangs out at "seedy bars with bums and lowlifes." In Arabia, Homer's beer is soda, and his hot dogs are barbequed Egyptian beef sausages. And the donut-shaped snacks he gobbles are the traditional Arab cookies called kahk.

That's according to WSJ.com.

Some longtime "Simpson" fans who are Arabs are incensed over the Arabized version. "This is just beyond the pale," wrote As'ad AbuKhalil, a professor at California State University, Stanislaus, whose blog, angryarab blogspot, often touches on politics and the media. After viewing a promotional segment of "Al Shamshoon," Prof. AbuKhalil wrote, "It was just painful....The guy who played Homer Simpson was one of the most unfunny people I ever watched. Just drop the project, and air reruns of Tony Danza's show instead."

Tony Danza. Ouch.

Few shows have more obsessed fans than "The Simpsons," and their vast online community is worried about whether classic Simpsons dialogue can even be translated. One blogger wrote, "'Hi-diddly-ho, neighbors!' How the h -- are they going to translate that? Or this great quote: Mr Burns: Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese."

Given the popularity in Egypt of a certain television mini-series based upon the infamous forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, I venture that al Shamshoon will translate the Stonecutters' Song into Arabic thus:

Who controls the British crown?
Who keeps the metric system down?
Jews do, Jews do!

Who keeps Atlantis off the maps?
Who keeps the Martians under wraps?
Jews do, Jews do!

Who holds back the electric car?
Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?
Jews do, Jews do!

Who robs gamefish of their sight?
Who rigs every Oscar night?
Jews do, Jews DO!