You want cultural divide? I'll show you cutural divide...

While browsing Wonkette, I learned of this. Now, I don't read Arabic, but sources lead me to believe it's basically a Hamas-related recruitment site targeted towards young children. Now, as horrifying as that is in and of itself, while browsing the site I found something more disturbing. What, you ask? Just look below...

What, you don't see it? Look a little closer... Still don't see it? Okay, I'll just point it out...

Yes!!! The scroll-bar is on the LEFT. I realize that based on the top-right to lower-left dynamic of Arabic script, much graphic design within the Arabic-speaking world actually runs opposite to what we're used to in the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabet-based portions of the world, mirroring our standard design formats based on the opposite-diagonal being the dominant one. I just have never before seen it as an influencing factor in web-design, and it just caught me off guard. I spent a minute just staring at the page, wondering how the hell I was to navigate it without the scroll-bar, before I finally realized it was on the left. It just comes across as, well, damn freaky. An affront to my sensibilities, more so than the cultivation of preadolescent martyrs.

Update: Al-Fatah.net appears to be down momentarily.