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Sunday, September 5, 2010

Ads by TV3

The Hari Raya ads by TV3 has become a big issue in Malaysia for the last few days. The involvement of other religion elements (i.e: amitabha flower, flying tricycles and the inverse jawi/arabic script) in the ads claimed to touch sensitivity of the muslim community.
  1. I have been made to understand that FINAS is the govern body that responsible to filter all kind of the ads, movies and everything before they goes up on the air. If my understanding is right, I think it is proper to blame FINAS instead of TV3 on the matter.
  2. As for the world of celebrity and electronics media, I don't think that they will ever stick to the religious point of view. For example, even it is globally know that the voice of a woman is an "aurat", I don't think they give it a damn on it. I also recall watching an artist said a really really bad things about our prophet wife "Siti Khadijah" in a forum broadcast all over the nation, and guess what, the audience just laugh on the statement.
  3. One of the main issues raise up upon the ads by TV3 was that it will get the children confuse on their own religion. I am all behind this as TV3 should be responsible for their action as it may affect their audience. But should our children provided with a proper Islamic education, the confusion should be able to be avoided. As we are arguing should a proper sex education offered to our children, there should not be such argument on the Islamic education.
  4. Saying this, we should not only be concern on TV3. In today's world our children will be having much much more information sources instead of TV3; the magazines, newspapers, blog, foreign TV channel, websites, etc. It is absolute crucial for our children to have proper understanding of our religion or they will be end up as people who accepting everything offered to them by the media not because they want to, but because they don't know why they should not to.
  5. Back to the issues of TV3, they should make a public apology and be more caution in the future. I don't think that  it is the first time neither the second time. As for FINAS, the background of the inspectors should be widen-up. Involvement of people who can represent the overall community in Malaysia should be gather to prevent any miss-judgment in the future.
  6. Let us not to be too ex-stream on any issues because one of the character of a "munafiqin" is when they arguing, they will go beyond the limit. May Allah give us the strength to be always on the right path of His, insyaAllah.

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