CBC has concocted another moronic sitcom with fiasco written all over it, but this one could implicate Canada in an international disaster.

The CBC has quietly ordered eight episodes of a promising — but potentially politically controversial — new sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, about a fictional Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan. But instead of hoisting pitchforks, rolling down hills and selling eggs at Oleson's General store like Michael Landon's Ingalls family, this transplanted clan will be trying to interact with the denizens of a little Prairie town in a post Sept. 11 world.

Is this CBC’s answer to The Book of Daniel, NBC’s ratings and PR debacle of last January?  Maybe CBC wants to get slapped with a fatwa.  We can only hope.

I have a few more ideas for CBC’s programming geniuses: Desperate Mullahs; Muslim Eye for the Christian Guy; Crossing Mahmoud; Extreme Makeover: Mosque Edition; Everybody Loves Mohammed.

If Little Mosque gets on the air, how long before Canadian flags are set ablaze in Pakistan, Gaza, Indonesia, Egypt, Syria?  (And we can’t rule out Pickering or Mississauga, either.)

Whatdya bet the “fictional Muslim family” are shown as sensible, level-headed folks, while the native-born Prairie “denizens” are a farcical bunch of racists, rubes, and rednecks?  We already know that’s CBC’s view of Winnipeggers.

Whitehorse has cable and satellite TV services, fortunately, so I don’t have to watch such drivel.  However, there are still remote places in Canada where the only television option is the local CBC outlet.  Some of those places are in rural Saskatchewan.