15 September 2012

Did Mohammed have a sense of humour?

.... The bizarre thing is that this film was made in America by someone obscure living in LA, but the rampaging Islamist hordes are attacking not only US embassies, but British and German ones, too. Any excuse, it seems, to tear into 'the West'. So flags are torn down, buildings torched, and an ambassador brutally murdered along with his staff, all in the name of the 'Religion of Peace'.

.... But protests over the Danish cartoons which satirised Mohammad, combined with images of Muslims criticising frivolous aspects of Western culture, leave the distinct impression Islam and comedy are incompatible – it is haram.

The most concerning thing for Muslims is that those who dare to express humour or satirise aspects of their religion are invariably derided by their co-religionists who hold to the Ayatollah Khomeini rather trenchant school of Islam. He once said: "An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humour in Islam. There is no fun in Islam." [Archbishop Cranmer] Read more