Potfry was on BBC radio debating terrorist apologist Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR about whether Islamic Rage Boy is funny. It took about two seconds for Hooper to mention the Nazis (who apparently had to deal with all those rage-filled Jews screaming for the death of Europe).
“If you laugh at me, you’re a Nazi!”
If Hooper’s goal is to make the American public believe that Muslims are either terrorists or whiny apologists for terrorists, he’s very good at what he does.
Here is the American Spectator on the Islamic Rage Boy debate (and the article includes some examples of acceptable Islamic humor).
Wait, if someone is a Jew but makes fun of IRB, they’re a Nazi?
That’s like saying if I’m a white guy (which I am), and I make fun of Al Sharpton (which I do), I’ll be Black.
Is Islamic Rage Boy funny? Is a frogs butt water tight? Rediculously missplaced over-the-top-to-the-point-of-stupidity rage is always funny. It has to be or poeple couldn’t sleep at night knowing I.R.B. is out there just waiting for his big chance. As proof of concept I offer this vid ;
http://www.jugglingcats.com/video/pick_of_the_day/2006_10_16.htm
Islamic Rage Boy is very funny, and all the more so because “they” find him unfunny. Here he is in a good mood.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/exhibits/natures_best_2006/gallery/baboon.html
Islamic rage boy is not funny in any way shape or form as he shows that their professional protesters are on the same side as “our” professional protesters (ie not the good side).
Making fun of IRB on the other hand is frickin’ hilarious.
It is a great strength of the American culture is our ability to joke in almost any situation. In a perverse way I knew we would be alright after the horror of 9/11 when I heard the first joke, even though it was too soon and frankly not very funny.
A culture whose best humor is the examples in the second link should be resisted to the last, even if all the other crap (burkhas, beheadings, lack of succulent pork products etc.) were not there.
AND here I thought he was shouting because the Saudi elites had swiped all the sheep. Again.
I should have known it was the Jews. It’s always the Jews. The reason Rage Boy and his 10th century pals are nothing but a bunch of unemployed, illiterate, misogynistic, xenophobes are the JEWS. Natch.
Silly me.
He (like most such things) was very fresh and funny.
He (like most such things) is tired and trite.
He (like most such things) will be tedious.
Note carefully the tense used.
I think he’s the bomb!
He could only be funnier if his eyeballs popped out, he hurled projectile blood out his nose and ears, and for the grand finale if his head would blow up taking thousands of other brethren with him. Now that shit right there would make the Pope wet his pants laughing!
My All-time funniest vision is the one where some top-secret Koran scholar decodes the magic word whereby every Islamic in the world simultaneously jumps off the nearest precipice of lethal height! Now that would indeed be a punchline to die for!
Imagine the joy in whoville!!
Islamic jokes really ARE lame.
A muslim was telling a islamicly acceptable joke to Mohammad, and Mohammad responds ‘Father of really lousy jokes’
Shoot. I’ve never really wanted an IRB shirt until listening to that whiny little bitch Hooper. What a wanker.
I read the article in the American Spectator, and I get that Islamic humor is hard to find, but that’s just because they’ve forgotten their slapstick roots. In The 13the Warrior by Crichton there’s a funny story about an Ali that got so drunk he fell asleep on the ground in his own puke. He gets woken up by a dog licking his face, but he’s so out of it he thinks it’s some kind person helping him out and when the dog pisses on him, he says “Allah bless you for your kindness.” And isn’t that really how the religion of peace should be portrayed? As a dog pissing on a drunk guy covered in vomit…
Man, I’m gonna get hunted down for that one….
You do realise that you have made islamic rage boy famous around the world… I mean if the guy is not dead with several of his body parts blown to pieces he could make a red carpet somewhere in Hollywood.
If he is alive he should appear next to Baghdad Bob.
The author of American Spectator article writes, “Jokes are simply a (mostly) harmless way to let off steam.”
American humor is so much more than that. It is the essence of our confidence as a nation. Laughter and fear can not reside in the same vessel. Fear abhors laughter, and the absence of laughter provides a void that fears can and will fill. Fear can not abide looking ridiculous. In the warm light of laughter fear withers and dies.
American humor is the lifeblood of this country. It is what led the founding fathers to take what was a Red Coat/Tory derisive song like Yankee Doodle and adopt it as their own badge of honor. Whenever Americans have been involved in wars and trying times it was their humor that saw them through. The honors we bestow upon our presidents like Lincoln, FDR and Reagan were/are supported by the day to day humor of Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Bugs Bunny, and that old class clown you work next to now.
In your own life it is important to laugh at what you fear; cancer, bad marriage, even the death of a loved one. Laughter is one of God’s great gifts. It overcomes fear, grief, loneliness, and actually makes us more valued by others. The person who can convince another to their point of view through humor is immensely more persuasive than those who use fear.
So, laugh at what would make you afraid, and then get to work at getting over it, around it or through it.