As reported by Friday’s Wall Street Journal ($), the new Arab-language version of The Simpsons sounds more like a parody of Arab cultural hypersensitivity:
“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.
A teetotaling Homer Simpson pretty much misses the point. The article doesn’t mention the fate of Ned Flanders and the show’s occasional scenes in a Christian church, which are presumably even more problematic than Moe’s.