Posted on 08/21/2009 12:29:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The world's first Muslim cartoon superheroes have taken the Arab world by storm, and now they are headed for British television screens
Named the 99, as each possesses one of Allah's 99 attributes, the characters include a burka-clad woman named Batina the Hidden and a Saudi Arabian Hulk-type man named Jabbar the Powerful.
They have proved a hit from Morocco to Indonesia and were recently named as one of the top 20 trends sweeping the world by Forbes magazine.
Now they are being brought to British television by Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, with a mission to instill Islamic values in children across all faiths. Until now, the superhero market has been dominated by the likes of Batman, Spiderman and Superman who have typically limited their crime-fighting abilities to America and the Western world. They were created by Dr Naif al-Mutawa, a clinical psychologist from Kuwait, who felt Muslim children needed a new set of heroes to look up to, to counter jihadist role models. “It hit me that the stories I was hearing were from men who grew up believing that their leader, Saddam, was a hero, a role model — only to one day be tortured by him,” he told The Times. “I decided the Arab world needed better role models.”
However, despite being called the 99, there will never be a full cast of 99 superheroes since it is forbidden to depict all Allah's attributes
Dr al-Mutawa hopes the cartoons will have a universal appeal.
He said: “It is based on attributes such as generosity and mercy. These are not things that Islam has a monopoly over.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Amazes me to no end that France is the only ones even attempting to do something about this takeover.
The 98 (blam)
The 97 (bbbaaannnggg)
The 96 (wham)
The 95 (kapow)
.........
This sounds good to me. Maybe it will actually be a force for some good?
Now they are being brought to British television by Endemol, the production company behind Big Brother, with a mission to instill Islamic values in children across all faiths
These Islamic Values?
1. Opression of women
2. Beatings and torture and killing of women for the various crimes oflooking at man wrong, being raped by a man and on an on
3. Chopping off peoples heads to make political points or because they are not muslim.
4.Learning how to make nailbombs to blow up school buses
Might these be some of the Islamic values being brought to the children of England?
This is "Fatima The Obedient"
Yeah, they might have trouble with the pedophilia and sodomy.
Yeah, neither were they things the Nazis had a monopoly over.
“Is there much christian TV is the UK??”
nope. just open sex on big brother...and islam
where’s Frank Castle when you need him
could very well be since the second half of this article, which was not published on these links, mentioned that the book’s creator was a supporter of hamas...
Are you sure it’s not the 911’s?
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