Oprah Corrupting America’s Children!
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Oprah is generally looked upon in American society as a great empowered but honest woman. She definitely has great interviewing skills. However, if you’ve always been an Oprah fan, this post may change your whole perception of her and her show.
I have a little bit more time on my hands now that I have spring break, and so I decided to turn on the TV to America’s favorite day-time talk show host, Oprah Winfrey. Unaware of the subject matter of today’s show I watched as she brought on a guest who was publicly taking the innocence of little children right before our eyes.
The guest was Laura Berman, an author who decided to talk today about how to speak to your kids about sex.
A concerned mother of a 10-year-old came on the show seeking advice on what to do. Her daughter for the past eight months has been asking her mom what “sex” was. The mother kept telling her child she would “tell her later.” The child knew it was something possibly embarrassing and refrained from asking her father, but still had no idea what it was and wanted answers from her mother.
“Doctor” Berman gave the mother advice. She told her to talk to the girl and tell her sex was just the ways babies are made. “That’s not too bad,” I thought to myself — after all I there was nothing explicit about that answer; but the doctor went on.
She decided to show the girl diagrams of human anatomy, both boys’ and girls’. She also told the mother to tell the child about “pleasure.” And forgive me for getting explicit, but the 10 minutes I watched of this show SHOCKED me. She decided to talk to the child about what I’ve seen IslamQA.com call “the secret habit” and tell her that it’s perfectly normal and OK to do so!
AHH! WHAT! Did I just hear that right? Oprah, have you gone mad inviting someone like that on your show!? A 10-year-old girl who had a simple question because she heard this word used around her school, and this is what they teach them in return?
Wallahi I was so disgusted. But it didn’t stop there! Berman proceeded to recommend getting their daughters toys (of the bad kind!) to “explore.”
I didn’t watch anymore. That served me right for even trying to watch anything. Wallahi I feel like it corrupted even me and I’m not a 10-year-old girl! It was so embarrassing I couldn’t watch another minute of it.
Lesson of the day – get your children out of public school and into Islamic school. Don’t let non-Muslims teach your kids! Islamic schools are not sheltered, I understand that, but at least there is a sense of disgust and reprimand that children learn when it comes to Zina. Instead of feeling it’s perfectly normal to do, at least the students KNOW it’s wrong!
Wallahu alem.
Sorry for the explicit nature of this post, but seriously be aware of all this garbage.
unconventionally-traditional Says: 10.04.09 at 10:35 am
that woman, no joke, is dangerous. I remember about a year ago she was promoting her own religion. I was dumbfounded! I couldn’t believe it, the fame and money got to her head. The worst part is shes an idol to some women, they literary worship her. Whats really eery is that she is obsessed with aging, she reminds of those women that desperately seek the fountain of youth, at all cost.
btw, home schooling is the best idea, and your kids turn out way smarter.
MR Says: 10.04.09 at 11:08 pm
The reality is children across the world find out about these “acts” from music, movies or sadly being part of it (child sexploitation, rape, evil men in their family, etc.).
Check out MuslimMatters series on Sex and the Ummah:
http://muslimmatters.org/2009/02/16/sex-the-ummah-child-molestation-in-the-muslim-world-myth-or-reality-part-i/
Back in the day when I was 12 I didn’t know jack about anything but taking Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Animaniacs.
Nowadays 12-year-olds know about Girlfriend/Boyfriend crap, drugs, “being gangsta” or being a “hot chick”, etc.
Times have changed.
May Allah protect and guide us all and our future generations. Ameen.
PS – Oprah needs some dawah!
shirien Says: 11.04.09 at 2:28 am
it’s funny because all the aunties are like “if only oprah was muslim.” lol
12-year-olds are doing everything these days. subhanallah.
I agree homeschooling is the best solution but for those parents who cant homeschool, Islamic School is a wayy better option.
Oprah does need dawah, infact most all of hollywood needs dawah.
Serendipitouslife Says: 11.04.09 at 2:59 am
I’ve heard that even in public schools, the parents do have the right to withdraw their children from SE classes. And its not just an issue with muslim parents, even conservative non-muslims prefer to withdraw their kids.
hk Says: 11.04.09 at 3:01 am
i blame the mother: if she had an ounce of functioning brain cells, she would pose that question to a child psychologist and not an adult sex therapist. do these people think about things on a broader scale? like the fact that if it’s okay to teach kids how to “pleasure” themselves, that they won’t think much when an adult touches them inappropriately? it’s a pedophile’s dream come true.
what i think is crazier is that non-Muslims are quick to denounce islam because of (forced) child marriages… and yet, here they are teaching kids everything they need to know about something that’s only reserved for marriage. (in no way am i advocating the child marriages that occur today throughout the muslim world, but just trying to make a point).
ya Allah, preserve us and our children.
shirien Says: 11.04.09 at 3:02 am
they have the ability to do so, but it’s not SE that they are learning this stuff
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There was a recent news report from in which schools in places like NJ are showing the kids what family is all about. And what they show them is Gay Couple families, Lesbian Families, Mother that was never married, etc.
So it’s not even about SE, it’s raising children to believe that homosexuality is supposed to be accepted and OK. Wallahul Musta’an.
shirien Says: 11.04.09 at 3:04 am
HK,
That’s very true in everything you said. And I was thinking about it yesterday and I’m thinking about this poor little girl. She asked a simple question out of her innocence, and they brought her on National Television to talk about it.
The poor girl is now thinking that it’s a BIG deal, and is going to go talk to all of her 10-year-old friends about what she learned and what she went on TV about.
It’s seriously messed up.
Amatullah Says: 11.04.09 at 3:36 am
uh I didn’t watch the video and I really don’t want too…but shirien, they brought the 10 yr old on the show?!?!?
shirien Says: 11.04.09 at 3:49 am
yes! look at the preview of the show i posted above, that’s the 10 year old girl in green. I was horrified. Even Oprah’s friend Gale was saying she doesnt even talk to her grown women friends about that stuff and couldnt imagine talking to her kids about it.
Usman Akhtar Says: 11.04.09 at 3:57 am
I think the most important thing is for parents to be able to communicate to their children Islamic ideas, even about these silent issues, because if the parents won’t teach their kids, then the kids will learn from their friends, and from the television, that are constantly inputting information into their minds.
In this day and age you have to be able to explain WHY homosexuality is wrong, WHY non-committed relationships at school are disastrous, WHY dating is haram, WHY talking to the opposite sex alone is haram, etc.etc.
If you ask many Muslim teenagers, they wouldn’t be able to give you an answer to why for example dating is haram, and if they don’t have an answer, they’ll start dating people themselves.
Usman Akhtar Says: 11.04.09 at 4:02 am
and btw, i’m currently in my senior year of high school, so i know how bad it is, especially when you see other Muslims dating, doing and dealing drugs, going to parties, dances, etc.
If your parents are not a happy, positive, and islamic influence in your life, then you are lost to the feasting grounds of Shaytaan called:
“highschool”.
bintwadee3 Says: 25.04.09 at 7:37 am
WHOA man. I’m not a diehard Oprah fan but when I get the time to watch (once in a blue moon), its usually good.
But this crosses the lines. Has she gone mad?!?! And what kind of mother is this?! What an incompetent fool, I’m sorry to say. Wallaahi people don’t know how to raise their children anymore. It isn’t “teach them while their young and drill it into them”, now the motto is “let them make their own mistakes, they’ll learn soon enough.”
And I completely agree with MR on this, its EVERYWHERE. My 10 year old sister knows everything (as do my brothers who are older than she) because of tv shows. But alhamdulillaah they have enough hayaa and sense not to go around talking about it and my parents CERTAINLY aren’t giving them TIPS, A3OODHU BILLAAH!!! I’m seriously thinking about writing Oprah a letter. I never do that stuff but that’s above and beyond.
Sadly, it reminds me of this story: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/172838/sixth_grade_students_have_sex_in_class.html?cat=8
Case en pointe.
Arif Says: 26.05.09 at 6:09 am
I was told that it’s the duty of Muslim parents to talk to children about these issues, especially in our current society. I believe that the mother was right to ask, but she was asking the wrong type of people and was receiving horrible answers. Parents should rather sit down with their kids once they’re old enough and explain it in a certain manner.
shirien Says: 26.05.09 at 6:14 am
I completely get where you’re coming from Arif. Allah ‘az wa jal talks about intimacy in the Quran but he does so in a manner that is of course in the best manner and not crude. If one does so in the proper manner and also goes over halal and haram with their children regarding it, then alhamdulillah.
But yeah this lady was insane and really out of line.
Arif Kabir Says: 31.05.09 at 1:29 pm
Very true. This also shows the great need for Muslim psychologists and social workers in our community that addresses these issues so that Muslim families will not have to resort to these other “experts”. In reality, it should not be the Imam’s duty to fill the vacuum because his duty is to teach the community and to keep them inspired. Only because there is no nobody else do we see the majority of the Imam’s schedule in marriage counseling, domestic abuse, psychological support and such.
Anon Says: 03.06.09 at 3:39 am
Salams, the video shows as private. May you please post a public one? JAK
Anony Says: 30.06.09 at 2:18 am
Just the other day , i was on the bus reading my book .When I looked up at the front row seats, I saw a couple of high school girls with uniforms holding a book on sex ….but get this it wasn’t your typical trashy novels but a guide book ”100 ways and tips on sex” holding it up for the world to see and laughing about as if they had a magazine in their hands. People are way too comfortable with their sexuality these days. Show some decency will you.
Saima Says: 29.08.09 at 4:03 pm
this video ddnt open sayin it was private…can anybody send its link on youtube if there is one?