Who's UR Hero?????

Who was your hero growing up? Superman? Barbie?
What about children of this age? Pokemon? Power Rangers?
In the Arab world, this is especially a pungent issue. The lack of mystical heroes seems to weigh on the conscience of so many who are trying to salvage the problem by creating new heroes that conform with the major religion in the region, Islam. One such endeavor is by a young Kuwaiti chap, Naif Al-Mutawa, who is releasing a new comic book series called The 99, in which 99 characters portray the 99 attributes of Allah. As to how he managed to convince anyone to invest in his idea, it was rather simple enough: he revealed to his financial backers a newspaper story about a Hamas supporter in the Palestinian territories who was selling a children’s book with stickers of suicide bombers as heroes. "I took this around and said, ‘look, this is what’s happening in the vacuum’," he said. "I don’t want my kids growing up like that."

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I personally don't see any lack of heroes in the Arab world. We certainly don' need to revert to mystical, dazzling and fictional characters when true heroes do exist in our history. Why, we have the Prophet s.A.a.w.s, Abu Baker Al-Sadeeq, Omar ibn Al-Khatab, Othman ibn Afan, Ali ibn Abey-Taleb, Hamza bin Abuld-Moutalib, Kalid ibn Al-Waleed, Salah Al-Din Al Ayoubi, Al Sayeda Khadeeja, Ayehsa bint Abey Bakr, Khawla bint All-Azwar and many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many many more...

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