.@chriskenny, @TimBlairBlog and @RitaPanahi on Bono's suggestion we fight terrorism with laughter. #viewpoint https://t.co/5YsNm9Gqxm— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) April 15, 2016
.@chriskenny, @TimBlairBlog and @RitaPanahi on Bono's suggestion we fight terrorism with laughter. #viewpoint https://t.co/5YsNm9Gqxm— Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) April 15, 2016
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Maybe I missed it, but when exactly did the Moslems develop a sense of humor.
Well, he made me laugh.
Here's what George Carlin had to say about him and Sting. And Jewel. And Tiffany. Etc.
Bono is saying ridicule is a more powerful weapon than killing them.
Everyone else says, "Why no. No, it is not. Silly Bono.
And yet, I must say, depictions of Jihadist as in Team America had the whole audience of young Americans cracking up laughing. They cannot take ridicule.
Kate at SmallDeadAnimals posted on this and it got a sold response. But all of the commenters are off the mark. "Send comedians over there" is where the go off the mark. No need to send them, just their ridicule. But they are not up for it, not up for waging war.
Skits ridiculing the whole virgins in heaven nonsense. They could be done well. Offer the reasons why it's so ridiculous, even another religion can counter that, a more sensible religion. Do a skit about that. Jesus is cornered by cadets sent to vex his teaching and they ask him standard questions that have no good answer in Jewish theology, the sort of things they sit around all day arguing about, having to do with Mosaic law, if a man dies and leaves a widow and his brother takes her (by law) then he dies too, the in heaven who is the husband? That sort of ridiculous hypothetical theological onanistic snag.
Then Jesus says, "You error because you do not understand the scriptures. In heaven there is neither man nor woman, Roman nor Jew nor, no master or slave." The skit goes on, "Heaven is a spiritual reality and your question is about physical reality where sex in the physical world is the clumsy down keyed energy level analog to much more real union between spirits. Sex in the physical world is the shadow cast by the reality of real profound union. In that sense all spirits from the world are virgins in heaven and there is no physical sex there."
See how comedic ridicule can mix with propaganda, with humor offer a better way to imagine. A better goal. I get what Bono is saying. But the commenters at Smalldeadanimals do not.
That doesn't mean they're not funny over there. Here is a smalldeadanimal commenter.
Terry Tory, The Honorable and humble. | April 13, 2016 2:15 PM | Reply
And Fresh from the centre of Canada; Toronto, the CBC's own This Hour has 22 Minutes gang!:
How does every Islamic joke start?
By looking over your shoulder.
How do you tell a Sunni from a Shiite?
The Sunnis are the ones with the Shiite blown out of them.
What's the difference between a Muslim and a vampire?
At some point the vampire will stop being bloodthirsty.
How does a Muslim close the door?
Islams it.
Did you hear about the winner of the Middle Eastern beauty contest?
Me neither.
How do you play ISIS bingo?
B-52...F-16...B-1...
What do you call a drunken Muslim?
Mohammered.
What do you call an evil Muslim?
Mu Ha Ha Ha Med.
John Cleese had something to say about this.
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