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"For example, have they produced a muslim character comparable to the Christian Church Lady?"

You missed the point. Those sketches weren't meant to mock Christianity at all. Rather, the target was the type of Fallwell/Swaggert-esque blue-noses who seem to get a sadistic kick out of telling anyone who disagrees with them that they are going to hell for the small or non-existant vices. Church Lady doesn't mock the vast majority of Christians (I'm a Christian, and wouldn't tolerate them if they mocked Jesus), but the weirdo fringe element we all knew at least one of as kids who insisted that their beliefs on sex, religion, etc gave them the right to tell others how they can behave. Call them the "Wash your mouth out with soap" brigade.

The Church Lady was a wickedly (pun intended) funny character, and I love those sketches.

I don't think I missed the point of the Church Lady character. Of course, 'she' was an extreme stereotype of the busy-body holier-than-thou miss-goody-two-shoes Christian. My question was more directed at wondering whether anything muslim/islamic gets made fun of in the same way. For example, are there any skits featuring women in burkas singing songs making fun of domineering men? Has mohammed ever been mentioned at all (as I'm sure that Jesus has)? That's what I was getting at.

muslims are notoriously thin-skinned. Unless SNL is prepared to run a little sandpaper over that thin skin, they're playing it safe, in my view.