'Next Top Imam' vs. 'Next Top Model'

I came across an interesting article today so as i really adamant to put some parts of the article in this blog. It is an article from Los Angeles Times, an online newspaper in the United States. It featured an article entitled MUSLIM WORLD: Malaysian reality-show contestants compete to be 'next top imam' .

I knew it was an obsolete news already as the news covering the recently 'hit reality show', has been featured by most of the renown media around the world long-long ago (BM diEnglishkan.sori). Not only BBC and CNN in the US, but the wide coverage went as far as the Europe and Middle East. Good news indeed in giving good perception to the foreigners towards Malaysia and of course toward Islam.

But what makes this article wisely-interesting is that, the 'Imam Muda' Reality show is being compared to the super-famous Tyra Banks' "America's Next Top Model" reality show. The author went on explaining that both reality shows are similar to each other, but with maximal differences.


Malaysia's new hit reality show, "Imam Muda," or "Young Imam," is a lot like Tyra Banks' "America's Next Top Model," except that instead of, say, posing naked with tarantulas, contestants must wash and prepare a body for burial according to Islamic tradition.

"Imam Muda" pits contestants against each other in a series of challenges to determine who will make the best spiritual leader, or imam. In the featured clip, competitors try their hand at divorce counseling in order to prove they have what it takes to serve their congregation.

so...

'Next Top Imam' vs. 'Next Top Model'

.......which one should be the role model?

what says you?

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