[Osx-nutters] Egyptian Two-Fer: Racism and Misogyny in One Cartoon

[David Cake]

At 10:33 PM -0700 24/2/07, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>On Feb 23, 2007, at 3:01 AM, David Cake wrote:
>
>>At 8:01 AM -0700 22/2/07, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>>>Most jokes about Islam are inane. We simply don't know enough 
>>>about it to know the funny parts.
>>
>>	Yes, few of us know enough about Islam to even make good jokes.
>>	Salman Rushdie did, though. Look where it got him. His humour 
>>was intended to be deliberately insulting, but he got more than he 
>>bargained for.
>
>I have never heard that The Satanic Verses was funny.

	Well, it was intended as satire, anyway - though it seemed 
rather mean spirited and crude to me.


>I don't disagree but this seems to be tangential to the point I was 
>trying to make about the paucity of jokes about Islam. Jokes about 
>Islam wouldn't necessarily be jokes about Allah. Almost all the 
>jokes about Christianity or Judaism are jokes about Priests, Rabbis 
>or people in Churches or Synagogs. They aren't jokes about Jehovah 
>and they aren't remotely blasphemous. In fact I cant think of a 
>single example of a statement that's both  funny and blasphemous.

	South Park managed to be both blasphemous and funny quite a bit.
	Cheers
		David