U.S. Muslim comedy tour hits Deep South

cnn.com ^ | August 13, 2011 | Summer Suleiman

[Free ThinkerNY]

(CNN) – The Muslims are Coming is a comedy tour that is traveling to small towns throughout the South in hopes of opening up a discussion about Muslim stereotypes.

The tour started in Gainesville, Florida, home of Terry Jones, the pastor who attracted international headlines by burning a Quran, and stopped in Lawrenceville, Georgia, outside Atlanta, on Tuesday night. It will continue to Alabama and conclude in Tennessee.

The shows feature comedians Dean Obeidallah, Negin Farsad, Maysoon Zayid and Omar Elba. They are targeting small, conservative towns in the South where controversies over Islam have erupted.

“We came to the South because it has this reputation of being intolerant. It has this stereotype of hating other groups, so we wanted to see,” Farsad said. “We have a feeling that they’re not actually uniformly sitting around hating Muslims.”

[TexasRepublic]

Ah, kids ..... they blow up so fast.

[battousai]

...if you stick to their OWN literature, they can’t make that claim. and just the DOCUMENTED things from their OWN literature

The ones I listed apparently come from their own literature too, I got those from that Arab priest who runs a TV show on Islam, where he uses exclusively their own literature to prove his points debunking Isham ;). I have a link saved on my home computer so will post it for you later, very interesting reading.

[listenhillary]

They could heal their image by denouncing violence committed in the name of their religion. If the majority of them did this, my views would be radically changed.

Show that you have zero tolerance for terrorists and the idea that the end game is Islam over all and we’ll talk.

[WashingtonSource]

The could make an impression by repenting and converting to Christianity. Other than that, they could leave the country. Repent or leave — that would impress me.

[SunkenCiv]

/rimshot