… the LA Times profiles a teenage girl in Tyre, Lebanon, named Hiba Qassir, who is studying at a high school backed by Hezbollah. She comments on her various ambitions, including becoming a film director, and calls martyrdom “the shortest way to heaven”. The summary bit below the headline (I am not sure what the journalistic term is for it - help?) reads as follows:

 Aspiring filmmaker Hiba Qassir is about to graduate from a Hezbollah-backed high school. She loves movies, but would give up her career dream if offered the chance to be a suicide bomber.

One has to wonder whether these Lebanese teens have gotten wise to the fact that saying you’d be willing to become a suicide bomber is the quickest way to a two-page feature on you in a major foreign paper. I don't mean to suggest that I think that necessarily happened in this case, but I wonder what the discourse on those sorts of issues is in Lebanon.