A rich Lebanese businessman with Hezbollah connections kneecapped in the midst of a large Black-Trans-Asian-First Peoples-Nonbinary-Otherkin-Latinx-Fatx-Allies Lives Matter demonstration was going to invite embarrassing scrutiny. Hopefully, it would scare the jihadis and/or their prospective partners off the deal. But if it didn’t, at least it guaranteed Saladin would not be joining next year’s cast of Dancin’ with the Stars: Beirut.

