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metamorfosis -> RE: Tolerance of Islam in Toronto (8/14/2013 8:40:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: kdsub
Why is comedy like this, not insulting Allah, so wrong to you.
That's a really good question. I will try to answer for myself.
I first thought the OP was satirizing people for thinking they were extending the Moslem community a great deal of "tolerance" by allowing them to build a mosque. I thought that was damn funny, because it's ironic that anyone would fancy themselves "tolerant" for allowing a mosque to be built. The OP said there was public resistance to the idea, and I simply assumed that that resistance was due to religious prejudice. In that context, mocking non Moslems for their intolerance makes sense (assuming religious intolerance really is the reason for the resistance**) because it's true.
I could have mistaken who the real target of the jokes was. Maybe the jokes were making fun of Moslem communities for expecting tolerance while being intolerant themselves. This is why I don't think that's funny... it has nothing to do with it being "mean" to make fun of religions or minorities... It's simply that I don't actually see that kind of intolerance coming from Moslem communities in places like the U.S. and Canada. Granted, my experience is limited, but I've never seen it. That's the reason I don't find that funny. Not because it's "mean" but because it references something which (at least in my limited experience) isn't actually there. It is not true.
The joke about being intolerant of teaching girls to read really would have been funny if it had been made in reference to Afganistan, because that is true in Afganistan. I would have laughed at that one. But to say the same thing about Toronto is not funny, because it's not true in Toronto. At least, I doubt it.
I wouldn't have laughed at the joke about acid burns no matter which country had been referenced, because I think it's just in poor taste to make fun of torture, whether it's true or not.
I can see where you're coming from with the "people are being too politically correct" thing, and I sympathise, because I'm not terribly politically correct myself. However, I would like to submit for your consideration that in this case I didn't think the jokes were funny because...they just weren't funny. And not because I thought they were "mean" or politically incorrect.
** It's very likely that the public outcry against the Toronto mosque is actually a question of traffic and parking problems, but this wasn't clear in the OP, and I don't think it makes a difference to whether the jokes were funny.
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