I finished listening to an interview with the south park guys about their Mormon musical. The Mormon Church, while not all embracing of the musical, acknowledged it and let it be. Why can’t Islam do this. Both are very conservative faiths. I see a lot of humor about jewish culture from jews. Even a few reformed Christians can laugh about their faith, why not Islam?
according to who ?
according to people who want to and do kill over cartoons, like south park. The other followers of the desert patriarch seem to be able to laugh at their faith. Islam seems unable to do ths
If you ask a male Muslim if he is a terrorist, fundamentalist or extremist there is a 70% chance for him to get mad.
Lol i am a muslim. And sometimes when people makes fun of it i play along for a bit time and then i stop.
You are the only Muslim I have seen that is close to self-ironic.
Why (aside from predictable racism) pick on Islam? Try mocking Scientology and see where you get.
As a lot of people fail to realise, Islam is not just composed of terrorists. They’re a very small minority of mentally infirm people that have used a religion as an excuse for killing. If it wasn’t Islam, it would be something else. In Northern Ireland, it’s protestants and Catholics. In Rwanda and the DPRC, it was Catholics. Some people just like killing.
Islam is the biggest religion in the world, so the vast majority are just normal everyday people. I’m more worried about a sinister undercurrent of anti-islam in the US than I am about terrorism to be honest
Actually, Christianity (2.1 billion) is ahead of Islam (1.5 billion) according to adherents.com
As for “Muslims lacking a sense of humor”, an extremely small minority is like that (just like any religion) but they get the most play in the press (unlike other religions). But, “insulting their prophet” is a good way to get some of them mad, even if it’s in jest.
You’ve never been insulted or angry over someone that was doing something in jest?
As for sense of humor, I’m sure that the vast majority of Muslims have a GREAT sense of humor on many multiple subjects.
To pigeonhole it to “insulting their prophet” and “see what the 0.00001% says about it” then apply that to all Muslims is…well… insulting.
No such thing was done or insuinated
They REALLY don’t have a sense of humor either, but this thread is not about Scientology. The next one will be.
I’m not talking about insulting, merely mentioning or depicting
An individual sense of humor is not the issue here, but humor on a cultural level.
As I put in my first post, the south park creators are producing a Broadway musical about the book of Mormon. In it, they lampoon the tenets and details of the faith, while being nice to the Mormon characters. The official Mormon church response was something to the effect of “The book of Mormon musical might entertain you for a day, but the real book of Mormon will help guide you for a life time.” No threats, no mean rhetoric, no protests. They have Mormon audience members and have had only one walkout.
In 2005, the same guys portrayed the worlds religious prophets/gods as super heroes. Nobody seemed to care.
A Year later, when south park wanted to briefly show Mohamed (again), without being mean, insulting or stereotyping, comedy central was so scared of the rhetoric they were hearing they refused to broadcast the image.
The Catholics didn’t even blink an eye when Jesus had a public access tv show, or when saint peter was portrayed as an easter bunny on the show, or when they made fun of the popes hat.
For the 200th episode, they hinted at a Mohamed depiction and actually received death threats, while nobody raised an eyebrow when Krishna was shown doing blow.
Why is there a lack of a sense of humor in that particular faith?
I think arab ppl are cool guys, eh get mad really easily and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Just like pirates :pirate:?
really how can you ask this when the same is true for all major religions
You’re right. All 1.5 BILLION people feel this way.
believe me… if you want to see an Arabian sense of Humor…watch this
this video is probably shot in saudi arabia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZFSe-wX-JE
oh and YOU really need to see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crmA_H5EnM&NR=1
lol a fucking lion.
I will check that out, but brooks usually doesn’t do it for me
When was the last time Christians in several nations all protested, rioted and demanded the death of an artist an the name of their religion? Read my examples.
I’m not talking about individual people, I’m talking about the faith as a whole. And yes, a lot of people feel that way or else it wouldn’t be a big deal, which it obviously is, hence the protests.
Once again, this is not about the sense of humor of individuals, or Arabic folks, or European folks, Turkic folks, or Asian folks, who can be any number of faiths, it is about Islam, not as being bad, or lesser, or invalid, just its inability to laugh or take humor in itself and why it is so taboo to seek that humor. Why and where does that come from?
there is a small minority that makes a big deal out of these things
a small minority
you are generalizing, massively
Excuse me, but if it was as big a deal as you say, you’d be seeing massive protests in nearly every country in the world. But, yes, it is an insult to many Muslims to have the image of Mohammed shown.
I’m sure there are things that aren’t a big deal that insult you, John. The vast majority of the people in the Islamic faith don’t protest, though, and of those that do protest, only a very small (dare I say infinitesimally small) call for death of those do.
Like the Westboro Baptist Church (of godhatesfags.com), these insanely small groups that call for literal death of the cartoonists and such DO NOT REFLECT THE FAITH AT LARGE.