NEWS: “Academics Find 1,000-Year-Old Muslim Joke Book”
Tweet From Discovery News by Jennifer Viegas Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:27 AM ET An 11th-century book by a revered Baghdad Muslim scholar turns out to be a tongue-in-cheek guide for party crashers, according to the researcher who translated the book into English. The tome was originally authored by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, a well known scholar of the Prophet Mohammed’s...
NEWS: “French Woman Sleeps on Flight from Pakistan to Paris…And Back to Pakistan!”
Tweet From New York Daily News Pakistan International Airlines officials are investigating how a French woman could have taken a flight from Lahore to Paris and slept while the plane stopped for two hours at the French capital. The woman did not get off the plane and flew back to Lahore. Wednesday, August 22nd 2012,...
NEWSPAPER: “American Muslims Tackle Islamophobia With Comedy & Humor”
Tweet From The National (United Arab Emirates) If you’re going to try to conquer Islamophobia in the United States with laughter, the very first problem you might run into is finding American-Muslim comedians. There just aren’t that many out there. The second, third and fourth problems may well be surviving the right-wing blog vitriol, a...
AP: “Egyptian Comedian Found Guilty of Offending Islam”
Tweet From Associated Press By AYA BATRAWY Associated Press CAIRO April 24, 2012 (AP) An Egyptian court on Tuesday upheld a conviction against one of the Arab world’s most famous comedians, sentencing him to jail for offending Islam in some of his most popular films. The case against Adel Imam and others like it have...
NY TIMES: “Comedian Aasif Mandvi on Food, Islam and Women”
Tweet From The New York Times It’s perhaps one of the most sumptuous paeans to Indian cuisine ever made. In the foodie flick “Today’s Special,” the masalas and chutneys serenade the senses as they make the journey from pot to plate, a symphony of colors and textures and almost — just almost — tastes, captured vividly...
NEWSPAPER COLUMN: “Telling Muslim Terrorist Jokes Is No Laughing Matter”
Tweet From Baltimore Sun By Rameez Abbas | 10:56 a.m. EDT, April 16, 2012 A few months ago, I was having lunch with a friend. When her dramatically inclined 6-year-old son wrapped a scarf around his head, she offhandedly commented, “Careful, or we’ll have to put you through a metal detector.” Weeks after that, I was lucky...
