After we completed our prayers for Eid ul Fitre at the Indonesian Embassy along Salcedo Street in Makati this morning, my mom read out an SMS from her sister saying that the Eid was discussed on Umagang Kay Ganda (the morning news show on ABS CBN). She stated that its anchor had made an announcement that prostitutes from Senegal are welcoming the end of Ramadan and that prostitution is legal in Islam. He accompanied his remarks with a laugh, even as his co-anchor Ms. Pinky Webb tried to say that it was not consistent in Islam.
The sound of his name alone ruins my day.
Why did ABS CBN even think of putting this person on a morning news show and call the show “A Good Morning”? This person has made it a habit of grilling guests on their show, or making controversial what is already controversial. When you watch him, he acts as if he is the most intelligent person around when in fact he could be the most ignorant. I never liked watching him, but now I have begun to hate him.
It is journalists like him that foster hate in this world. And for the record, prostitution is not legal in Islam.
It is journalists like him who enjoy the limelight of controversy and can create a hostage situation into a national embarrassment.
I am no perfect Muslim, but I am among the majority of the more than 1 billion Muslims who live in peace, love, and unity with other faiths. I am among those who wept for the people who died in 9/11 and it is sad that tomorrow a church in the USA will burn copies of the Holy Quran to commemorate the tragedy.
Today's Final Jeopardy answer: A Filipino TV journalist who is ignorant and makes the wrong perception of Islam even worse. (See my title)
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2 comments:
hmmm i actually read about the Senegal and prostitution somewhere.. can't point it out where but what i read is prostitution is legal in Senegal not in Islam.
sadly greater tragedy is happening in the US..
taberna and webb were discussing about the Eid, and then Taberna brings out a newspaper with the headline of prostitutes in Senegal welcoming the end of Ramadan. He did this obviously in bad faith and making a joke out of this holy day.
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