Posted on 02/24/2006 10:49:02 AM PST by laney
CAIRO, February 21, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – When world renowned American talk show host Oprah Winfrey announced a hero voting competition, she asked people to send true stories about a teacher, a firefighter, a parent or a relative, who has done something extraordinary for them.
But many Muslims are voting in the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States for Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
"This is an opportune moment to vote in droves for our prophet on Oprah's Web site to draw the world attention to our religion and the prophet of Islam," a young lady using the name Hadeel said in a contribution to IslamOnline.net Discussion Forum.
She exhorted other participants in the forum to vote for the prophet in the world's leading talk show.
Twelve cartoons, one showing the Prophet with a bomb-shaped turban, were first published in September by Denmark's mass-circulation daily Jyllands-Posten, and later reprinted by newspapers in many countries on the ground of freedom of expression.
The caricatures, considered blasphemous under Islam, have triggered massive and sometimes violent demonstrations across the Muslim world, with no sign of abating.
But the controversy has also prompted many Muslim minorities worldwide to launch local campaigns to introduce the prophet to fellow compatriots and wash away any misconceptions or stereotyped image.
IslamOnline.net decided earlier in February to launch a multi-lingual Web site to acquaint non-Muslims with the prophet.
Immediate Response
Hadeel's appeal received immediate response from many Muslims.
"It is a great idea," said a Muslim male who used the name Gogi 48.
"I visited the Web site and voted for my hero Muhammmad.
"Instead of voting in Star Academy, go and vote in Oprah's show," he urged fellow Muslims, referring to one of the hottest incarnations of reality TV in the Arab world, which was harshly criticized amid cries of immorality.
None of the Oprah Winfrey Show could be immediately reached to comment on the volume of such voting and whether the votes would be disqualified if they were seen unfitted.
IOL sent an e-mail to the show through the mail posted on its Web site and waited for 24 hours for a feedback.
IOL only received an automated thank-you reply from the Web site, apologizing for not guaranteeing a personal response due to the volume of e-mail messages they receive every day.
The show has asked people to send stories of people who did something extraordinarily heroic for others, like a neighbor who risked his or her own life to rescue you from a dangerous situation or perhaps he or she witnessed an accident and were able to help keep the victims alive until help arrived.
The Oprah Winfrey Show (September 6, 1986 - present) is the longest-running daytime television talk show in the United States, and is hosted, produced and owned by Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey is currently ranked as the most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine as well as the ninth most powerful woman in the world.
Well I am kinda like a Quantum life kind of person and enjoy the products...:)
Do You Know An Unlikely Hero?
Do you know someone who did something incredibly brave in the face of danger and became a hero? Do you know someone who is an unlikely hero? Do you know a person who risked their life for someone else? Do you know a mom who saved her own child or another woman's child? Do you know two people who were at odds and one saved the other's life? Do you know someone who scared off her attacker? Do you know a child who saved someone's life? The Oprah Winfrey Show is talking to Unlikely Heroes. Please tell us your incredible story and include as many details as possible --including the name of your hero. Only write if you are willing to appear on the show.
https://www.oprah.com/plugger/templates/BeOnTheShow.jhtml?action=respond&plugId=179200001
Do you know a true hero?
Maybe a teacher, friend or acquaintance did something remarkably courageous for you and you haven't been able to thank them? Perhaps a neighbor risked his or her own life to rescue you from a dangerous situation? Maybe he or she was there when you crashed your car and pulled you to safety? Maybe you were rescued from your burning home? Did your neighbor raise money for your family when he or she found out your child was sick? Or did your neighbors, out of the goodness of their hearts, fix up your home after they noticed it deteriorating?
Or, did your friend, sister, husband, wife or parents do something extraordinarily heroic? Maybe one of your loved ones did something unbelievably brave and courageous? Maybe they risked their own lives to help someone? Perhaps your family member or neighbor was the eyewitness to a crime and helped crack the case? Maybe he or she saw someone drowning and jumped into a dangerous situation to save them? Perhaps they even went as far as risking their own lives to do the right thing? Perhaps he or she witnessed an accident and were able to help keep the victims alive until help arrived? Maybe your loved one found lots of money or jewelry on the street and turned it into police instead of keeping it for yourself?
The Oprah Winfrey Show is looking for people who are heroes in their own neighborhoods or people who've done something extraordinary for their loved ones. If this describes someone you know, we want to hear your story!
The Pedophile Mohammed will have to compete with the bukkake whores Oprah had on yesterday.
I'm just an average Joe (Tim) with a particular fascination of quantum electro/chromo dynamics as related to an astronomical understanding to the origin(s) of the Universe. Although I'm a sommelier by trade these subjects do have a lot in common: The more you learn about them, the more you realize how little you know.
Exactly! Like that movie *What the bleep do we know? I have been using products from Layers of Light Q-Water Spray and Pouch, without a doubt the technology in Quantum Physics has given us the optimum health benefits as in Energy, Balance and Coordination..I feel like the Quantum Queen lately! :)
Now that would make a great screen name too.
And speaking of Oprah, Rush just 'quarked' her a good one a couple of minutes ago about her Howard Sternish remarks...
"The Oprah" had bukkake whores on TV?
Well changed my tagline...Have you researched the health benefits of Quantum Physics? I have shared the technology with some, but unless you have a open mind to new strides in technology....you are stuck in basic science protons and nuetrons era..
You know, I'm beginning to think that the best response to activist or apologist muslims is simply to say "not interested", and walk away.
(Nice tag!)
Because the attacks on the WTC on 9/11 weren't covered by the antique media?
OHHHH,so they were both VIRGINS when they were married?
WHAT is a bukkake whore?
Is it anything like a "yellowcake"whore?
Thanks! I will read...You know we are so affected by many hostile enviromental factors, no wonder we are out of alignment! :)From Silver fillings to Cell phones we run the gamut..DO you feel that you are in alignment or out?
Maybe they mean bundtcake? LOL...
I nominate Babe the pig.
And Hogzilla!..:)
Mohammed referred to Blacks as "Pugnosed Raisin Heads". (Sahih Al Bukhary vol. 1, no. 662 and vol. 9, no. 256)
The majority of people in hell are women. Mohammed said, "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers are women.- SURAH..Vol. 1:28, 301; & Vol. 2:161; & Vol. 7:124
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Oprah is an ignorant ditz.. about so many things..
The poster girl for millions of ignorant ditz's..
Good point!
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