'We can't joke about the Prophet Mohammed' (I'd stay in Sudan if I could, says teddy teacher)

Telegraph.co.uk ^ | 02/12/2007 | Blake Evans-Pritchard in Khartoum

[DogByte6RER]

So much for Muhammad being merciful.

Just another reminder why Islam is "The Religion of Peace."

[muawiyah]

Well, whatever. Fur Shur the Sudanese are making a joke out of Mohammad.

[DogByte6RER]

"We can't joke about the Prophet Mohammed' Yes...but I can!

[Biggirl]

Well Islam and Mohammed never had a sense of humor to begin with.

[sionnsar]

I'd stay in Sudan if I could, says teddy teacher

A liberal friend and former teacher in Khartoum got out several years ago,citing the increasing hostility there.

From everything I heard, only a lunatic Western would stay there today.

[Biggirl]

The more angry protests, the more Mohammed is rendered to being a joke.

[PapaBear3625]

And I was not alone. Colleagues I chatted to this week agreed that the whole affair has more to do with Sudan than it does with Islam. “I have a lot of friends who are Muslim, and I did understand the Islamic culture before coming here, but I was not prepared for this,” one woman teacher told me.

The difference is that she was encountering her friends in a country where the majority does not (yet) think it's OK to murder somebody for insulting Islam. Things turn very different when you walk into a Muslim-majority country. The story would have been the same in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc

[Kakaze]

For me, the past few days have really driven home that just having a general appreciation of Islam is not always enough to avoid causing offence.

Thats right a general appreciation is not enough.........You must submit.

[Cicero]

Blake Evans-Pritchard? I wonder if this is a son or daughter of Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, currently the economics writer for the Daily Telegraph, who wrote that great expose of bill clinton?

[DogByte6RER]

The thing that makes a great joke is an element of truth to the joke...

[kinoxi]

“The Prophet Mohammed met Rebecca Nyandang at a cinema,”

They could just refer to 'islamic' teachings (oxymoron). I'm sure there is a rape/pedophilia/maim/murder joke in there that is acceptable to islamic sensibilities (another oxymoron).

[G8 Diplomat]

I had to read a book for school about a Sudanese kid who lived in Sudan all his life but eventually escaped to America...he describes the violence and famine and disease. The Arabs rode on horseback killing the infidels with swords and guns...he mentions Darfur. He hated it and wanted to leave. Only an ignorant loony Westerner would want to STAY there.

[G8 Diplomat]

I did understand the Islamic culture before coming here, but I was not prepared for this

Then clearly she didn't really understand the Islamic culture.

[oyez]

Islamic culture has an inferiority complex.

[G8 Diplomat]

Another joke with an element of truth:

[doc1019]

I think islam and reality to be the oxymoron.

[Zack Nguyen]

Is the author related to Ambrose Evans-Pritchard?

[ZULU]

Actually, their own religion condemns these freaks.

According to Islam there is supposed to be only one God.

In effect, they have elevated a human being - Mohammad - to the level of a Deity, committing blasphemy in their own faith.

[Eddie01]

[E. Cartman]

It’s long past due for people to begin naming their pet dogs and pigs Mohammed.