Muslim comedians put the "fun" in fundamentalist

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette/Washington Post ^ | May 8, 2004 | Caryle Murphy

[Prodigal Daughter]

Please read article at its source since this is an article from Washington Post via Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

I resent it when conservative Christians are referred to as right wing religious fanatics, and Muslims are referred to as "fundamentalists."

Here's the paragraph that really got to me:

Muslim stand-up comics are increasingly in demand by both Muslim and non-Muslim groups. Canadian filmmaker Zarqa Nawaz produces what she calls "terrodies," or comedies about terrorism, and has named her company FUNdamentalist Films.

(I'm not laughing, are you?)

[Mr. Mojo]

Right up there with German or French "comedians."

[Alouette]

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[2banana]

Some of the "jokes" - I don't find joking about 3,000 people murdered too funny. And I notice note on joke about Isalm.

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"I get some dirty looks walking down the street," the Chicago comedian protested. "People looking at me as if I was responsible for 9/11.

"Can you believe that?

"Me responsible for 9/11?

Pause.

"7-Eleven, maybe?"

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The new tour, Moss said, is a way to highlight both the diversity of Muslims and the fact that blacks make up one of the largest groups of Muslims in this country. The show gives Moss a forum to banter about both his race and religion.

With John Ashcroft as attorney general, mused Moss: "I'm worried they're going to put race and religion on driver's licenses. ... So when I get pulled over ... I get two tickets!"

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"It's a bad time to be named Ahmed," lamented Egyptian-born Ahmed Ahmed, 33.

Once, Ahmed said, a ticket agent was skeptical about his occupation. " 'Oh, you're a comedian,' " the agent purportedly said. " 'Say something funny.' "

Pause.

"Ah-h-h ... I just graduated from flight school?"

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Ahmed, who with two other California-based Muslim comedians forms a comedy team called Arabian Knights, described his idea for a new reality television show: "It's called 'Mideastern Eye for the Midwestern Guy.' ... Five Arabs ... bust into a white guy's house and teach him how to make bombs and hate women." (Pause amid laughter.) "I'm kidding. Midwestern guys already know how to do that."

[Prodigal Daughter]

They whitewashed it. They don't just want to teach them how to hate women, but how to enslave and kill them too. Arabian knights, huh?

[RolandBurnam]

I hear the muslim comedy scene is really "blowing up" .

[thoughtomator]

Unfortunately, since they are stuck in the distant past, they're still telling the joke about the suicide bomber with two blue eyes.

[PA Engineer]

I heard it was a real bomb.

[nuconvert]

Not as funny as mullah-lifting, pong

[isthisnickcool]

The only joke this guy is associated with is the one he prays to 5 times a day....

[cake_crumb]

"Like their Jewish, Irish and African-American predecessors, Muslim comics are embracing ethnic humor, not just to draw laughs but also to promote Muslim acceptance into mainstream American society."

Muslims need to accept mainstream American society before being accepted into it.

If the examples in the article are the best part of his routine, his humor is as typically corned and lame as every Muslim I know. They have no sense of humor because they haven't accepted 21th century society, letalone mainstream American society.

[Semper Paratus]

For muslim comedians saying they 'bombed' last night takes on a new meaning.

"Take my wives! Please!"

[COBOL2Java]

Oh, those wacky Islamists! I think they should expand into a variety show, with hit tunes like: "Springtime for al Sadr" and "Don't Cry For Me, al Fajullah"...

[cake_crumb]

"I hear the muslim comedy scene is really 'blowing up' "

Really bringing the houses down. The audiences are just exploding with laughter.

[cake_crumb]

"Not as funny as mullah-lifting, pong"

...Or cleric blowing.

[cake_crumb]

"I heard it was a real bomb."

You mean he's a dud?

[anonymous_user]

Funny Arab commedians...

Kind of like the courteous French or delicious English cuisine.

[KarlInOhio]

At least have an "Hussein's Heroes" skit.

"Saddam! No one escape from Camp X-Ray!"

[cake_crumb]

Make that cleric BOWLING. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH! My typos made my pun BOMB!

[baltodog]

A bunch of White bashing, if you ask me.

The reason everyone is suspicious and untrusting of them is because their contemporaries are terrorists.

I gonna start a white-supremecist comedy troupe...