Tour-bus driver fired for Muslim jokes (Thin-Skinned Muslims Get Bus Driver Fired Over Joke, CAIR)

Orlando Sentinel via CAIR ^ | 16 MAR | Orlando Sentinel

[Gail Wynand]

CAIR-FL: TOUR-BUS DRIVER FIRED FOR MUSLIM JOKES ( Orlando Sentinel)

"And now they're telling us we're supposed to be nice to these Muslim terrorists who are trying to kill us all," Hilal Isler recalled him saying. "Here in America, we call them 'rag-heads' or 'towelheads,' but that's not right. What they wear on their heads is more like a sheet. We should be calling them sheetheads."...

Sabiha Khan, executive director of the Orlando office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said she receives two to three complaints a month about discrimination against Muslims in Central Florida. Mostly the incidents go unreported, she said...

[conservative in nyc]

If you Google "Moslem jokes" you won't find any. Google just about anybody else and they are plenty.

Perhaps that's because you are using an archaic spelling of the word "Muslim". Google "Muslim jokes" and you will get 48,600 hits, compared to 62,900 hits for "Polish jokes", 27,700 hits for "Italian jokes" and only 11,800 hits for "Catholic jokes". On the other hand, there are about 276,000 hits for "Christian jokes", and 119,000 hits for "Jewish jokes", but a mere 827 hits for "Buddhist jokes" and only 310 hits for "Hindu jokes".

I'd say Muslims are pretty fairly lampooned - although not as much as Christians or Jews. But note that the search results may be somewhat hampered by the fact that many Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists don't speak English, and the foreign language words for Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and joke aren't necessarily the same as their English counterpart.

[WingBolt]

I'd say Muslims are pretty fairly lampooned - although not as much as Christians or Jews.

Jews like to lampoon themselves a lot (witness the Israeli holocaust cartoon contest!). Plus, Christians and Jews have been an integral part of the English speaking-world (you are searching for it in English) for quite a while, unlike Buddhists, say...

[WingBolt]

All the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.

Tom Lehrer

[Nailbiter]

too bad not able to fire professors as easily

[TigersEye]

This morning there were only 823 hits on "buddhist jokes" which was a little disappointing. But I recovered my sense of self when I got 1,080,000 hits on "Scottish jokes." : )

[CDHart]

How gross. Do they really think that?

Carolyn

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

One sect of the cult does believe it!

[CDHart]

The more I learn about Islam, the scarier it gets. These people are insane and dangerous.

Carolyn

[reagan_fanatic]

Agreed. His venue was not appropriate. If he wants to do things like that, he can do it in his off time (which he has a little more of at the moment.)

Oh yeah, and CAIR is nothing more than a glorified anti-American terrorist front organization. Just to be clear, you know.

[ga medic]

Sure, That's why we come to places like FR. However, tourism and hospitality is an extremely competative industry. It's all about "the customer is always right." To have a tour bus driver telling jokes that even might be offensive to someone doesn't make sense. Hospitality is all about making someone feel welcome. Business wise, it can be very costly to have an employee that is moody or sometimes too quiet. Having an employee that insults customers is just stupid. This man should have been fired. I am sure there are many more suitable places for his humor.