I know there are a number of Muslim comedians both in Australia and around the world. Good luck to them because if ever a religion needed to poke a bit of fun at itself, Islam is it.
Any Muslim humorist has his or her work cut out. At a scriptural level there are numerous forbidding entries regarding laughter in the Koran and associated texts.
The Hadith says, “Do not laugh too much, for laughing too much deadens the heart.”
Potentially this means any Muslim who uses the laugh out loud acronym is looking at an apostasy charge and in grimmer corners of Islam like Saudi Arabia this has probably already happened.
The Hadith also puts the brakes on satire, too. “Woe to the one who speaks and tells lies in order to make the people laugh; woe to him, woe to him.”
Iran’s mullah, the Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Khomeini said Islam was a joke free religion. There was not a laugh to be had according to Khomeini. One look at that grizzled visage and you just knew he hadn’t cracked it for a giggle in a very long time, if at all.
Full column here.
1st test in India starts today. This won’t happen:
https://www.facebook.com/tony.hills2/videos/10207981895536858/
Very nice TV, as was the first session for Australia.
Warner and Renshaw were fine examples of the concentration needed to win on the subcontinent. This track will be a shambles by day three methinks. It was just a pity Warner played on right before lunch. Renshaw showed wonderful footwork as his coach Dismayed has an obvious eye for talent, even if he (Renshaw that is) started life as a Pom, and a bloody Yorkshireman to boot.
Renshaw’s footwork was put to the test when he had to run from the field with his own dose of the runs, unfortunately retiring Ill. No more Vindaloos for that boy.
Game on.
Oh by the way, India have frittered away their two appeal reviews on balls which were clearly not out. Now they will be playing 40 overs without further opportunity for a review, bare arsed so to speak. Australia solid at 1-105.
When Renshaw returns to the crease, and makes a deserved century, I’d like to see someone run bare arsed down Rundle Mall, but that’s just me humouring myself.
Good morning South Australia have we Power today, wind blowing, sun shining?
Got something you can blow
Power still cheaper today in SA than in Queensland and NSW as it has been since December. Did you not read the Newscorp commissioned report that shows the most expensive power bills are in Queensland running on coal and kero. Queensland, NSW and Victoria have also had the biggest increase in power of the last decade.
You obviously missed the AEMO report also showing it was the Fossil fuel generation that failed during the heat wave that led to load shedding.
As I watched the final 20/20 in Adelaide the other night, I wondered where they got their power from after dark?
I decided the gerbils must work overtime on their little wheels.
Sorry Wraith, but your Premier is making you all look like idiots. he is just digging himself a deeper and deeper hole.
POTUS Trump will reverse climate change position, says former Republican congressman Bob Inglis who is currently in Australia. Trump has previously called Climate Change a Chinese Hoax, Mr Insider, and one of his 1st tasks on coming to office was to have deleted all reference to Climate Change from the White House website. Will Donald backflip, only time will tell. He has already on the One China policy.
http://tinyurl.com/gww6gtk
Apart from the Maccas gag over the wall (of which I am especially proud) this is all I can find to add:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5fdtvH05Yw
Oh, OK. Let’s even it up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_PZ6xtdfgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfAQYcsZXYw
Honestly, I have no idea how I got by without Family Guy.
TBLS……very funny, particularly your comment about Maccas. Never watched Family Guy, must start…..
Two names for you. Rick and Morty. You have to be over 18 and have an iq that can get the jokes. You qualify.
I so want to lol with someone over ‘Morty shields’.
I don’t know Bowie, I searched long and hard for that Maccas joke and i’m sure you’ve done better work! Though I admit I couldn’t determine who you were responding to.
How’s the fire risk in the snowies?
Mate, that was comedy gold!
No fires near us yet at all this year. Came damn close to a frost a couple of nights this week.
Milton says:
February 22, 2017 at 1:04 am
I saw your excellent piece about the new religion which appears to be based on the parables being delivered by the AGW disciples.
I was wondering Milton, perhaps we need to ask our resident AGW chronicler on here if we humans are a significant contributor to climate change in that we exhale CO2 by which our bodies convert carbohydrates from CO2-absorbing plants into energy plus water and CO2.
We humans (i.e. all 7 odd billion of us and rising) reportedly breathe out 2,500 million tonnes of the stuff each year. We humans (i.e. the true believers) may be barking up the wrong tree.
We could have a copulation problem, not a carbon dioxide problem.
I was going to put the proposition to me old mate JB, but he’s been getting cranky with my questioning lately ( I think they been a bit too tricky for him) , so I’d be ever so grateful Milton, if you’d ask him about it on my behalf.
Cheers
CotC – not a problem, Carl.
Jean Baptiste – A mutual friend of ours and I want to know if you have a copulation problem?
Yes I do. Too little time and too many women . Tell our mutual friend failing cancellations I might be able to fit her in about January 2019.
Allowing for your normal rate of cancellations JB, later tonight is probably a good chance eh, say in half an hour with allowance for travelling time?
Ha, in your dreams, JB!
Carl,
“We humans (i.e. all 7 odd billion of us and rising) reportedly breathe out 2,500 million tonnes of the stuff each year. We humans (i.e. the true believers) may be barking up the wrong tree.
We could have a copulation problem, not a carbon dioxide problem.”
Well, moderation in all things, including moderation?
I fully agree with the second line, AGW or not. Of course, when I made a similar comment to a workmate once re the overpopulation of the planet he said, “Well, are you volunteering?”
You’ve put out some very good lines lately.
Look at the massive increase in Co2 since the industrial revolution. Your denial just proves you don’t care about future generations. It is more important to you to not admit your are wrong than to help society come up with ways to improve life.
https://theconversation.com/factcheck-qanda-was-it-four-degrees-hotter-110-000-years-ago-73045
Next time you’re in the library, be brave , borrow a book! Read It.
Could I suggest the title of that exciting first experiment be ” Web Search Engines. What They Are and How to Use Them, For Dummies.”
https://skepticalscience.com/breathing-co2-carbon-dioxide.htm
Which edition?
Just look in the children’s section. I wont be holding my breath waiting for you too concede your post was ridiculous and uninformed.
Henry Blofeld
Great Train Journeys. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfShmBnMTs
Fabulous clip, Mr Baptiste, loved the Donkey being removed from the track and the Doggie walking under the carriage! Thanks and cheers.
Not sure if the Lifeline header will appear in my previous post (it was like an ambush) but if it does, I’m happy.
I’m not sure either. Perhaps a truncated version, Mac. But it is a reminder to us all to be kinder to others and show some courtesy.
Onya Mac for the Lifeline plug.
And kudos too or for your request for the squabbling combatants to cease and desist.
They’re a bunch of ill mannered, flat faced beady eyed inbred mongrels, despicable, uncouth, whining addle headed buffoons, poltroons and goons. Theres no place for such scabrous rabble sharing a space with gentlemen such as thee and me.
Sometimes I can barely restrain myself from giving the flop eared donkeys a bloody good kick in their fat arses.
A bit of decorum and gravitas would be appreciated.
Best wishes.
Decorum huh? I will if they will.
Agree Mac, it gets really tiresome. I loved this weeks topic, it was as per usual for JTI, amusing and clever. Of course you’re going to get some controversial comments about religion, that’s what this one was all about. But then we get the same stuff all over again about climate change, power prices, cons versus progressives etc. etc. it becomes incredibly boring.
I think we should all be able to disagree and be criticized if our views are seen to be too “out there” but when the comments come down to personal abuse that’s when it loses the whole point of reasonable and interesting debate. And bullying people on this blog should never happen but it does….often
Can all you guys and gals who have personal feuds on this blog either put the personal animosity aside or piss off?! Go and find your own Facebook page (or whatever the “site of the day” is at the moment). Most of us on here are over it – regardless of which side of the political divide you lean to.
Agreed, Mac. I said to Penny in an email a while back it’s getting harder to find a reason to come here and wade through the great waste-heap of interminable arguments, shouting-matches and repetitive droning that some people seem to find entertaining to get to anything in the comments worth reading.
And that’s no reflection on our host – one of the strengths of this blog is the free-wheeling character of it. But some people have taken free-wheeling as an invitation to indulge their need to turn every disagreement into abuse and bickering. Endlessly fascinating for them; boring as bat-shit for everyone else.
I believe the content is up to the moderator. Obviously the brawling and the bickering doesn’t suit some, but is the blog supposed to be tailored to suit their tastes?
I think the abusive interactions are fascinating informative and highly entertaining. What might be a waste heap and not worth reading to you might be a mine with the occasional hidden treasure to be discovered for others.
I think the characters here might be having a lot more fun than might appear to some who take themselves too seriously.
Surely theres some here you could have a regular interaction with that suits your style, and ignore the rest? Your interesting and considered debates would be very edifying I’m sure, and an inspiration to the hoi polloi to aspire to a higher standard.
TB-LS, at the risk of being criticised for disagreeing with your attempt to link bat excrement with the quality of some commenter’s posts on Jack’s blog, may I suggest that bats overall, unfairly get bad press.
Apart from their skill and stamina at being able to hang upside down in draughty caves and belfries for most of their lives, the intensity and frequency modulation of their harmonic compositions put the acoustic features of a Stradivari in the shade. And to top it off, the quality of their poo makes it a highly sought after and effective fertilizer because of its high content of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium. It is eagerly sought after by organic agriculturalists.
So, to put bats and their droppings/splatterings in the same basket as the usual suspects on here is a grievous error.
I say stop bagging the bats.
Crikey! I thought TBLS was talking about you and Jugs Judy!
So Carl, you are a big fan of bat shit. I knew there was some strange peccadillo inspiring, indeed flavouring your posts.
Stop bagging the bats COC? Not on your nelly.
When the Ficcus tree in our front yard is in full fruiting , you can come and scrape as much of the stinking sticky bat poo off my front deck as you want, bring plenty of sugar bags. Not to mention the world wars they have with the possums in the same tree until midnight.
A question for you. How can an animal hanging upside down drop its crap on my decking rather than, well to put it bluntly, disappearing up their own orrifices?
Well said TBLS. It’s a shame when one gets reluctant to submit an opinion because it will bring down unpleasant comments. It seems easier to just refrain and stay in the chariot!
Gave a nice day..
Sorry deceased Queen, your reply went to Carl. Pass it on to Jugs, he’s been a bit scarce lately.
OT but so bloody shocking and corrupt I had to share it.
Donald Trump with the backing of the NRA is overturning an Obama Bill that stands as protection for grizzly bears, bear cubs, wolves, wolf pups & coyotes in a Wildlife Refuge.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/alaska-resolution-hunting-predators-wildlife-refuges_us_58a62ddde4b037d17d2641e4
This unspeakable corruption will allow trophy hunters, like his sicko sons, to inhumanely kill not only a fully grown animal but allows the shooting of wolf pups & bear cubs in den sites. The shooting of these animals by psychopaths in choppers and excruciatingly painful traps will also be made legal.
Please somebody tell me the ‘Dallas solution’ is imminent before humans decimate or render extinct yet more animal species.
Did you know the West African Black Rhino has been declared extinct this year? That’s right, somehow we managed to kill them all.
Trump is also appointing Scott Pruit as head of the EPA.! This guy has made a career out of suing the EPA and has very close ties to the fossil fuel industry. The dismantling of hard-won, major regulations on climate change & clean water will be his immediate priority.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency.html?smid=fb-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur&_r=0
I’d weep but I’m too angry.
Bella
Keep up that anger Bella, it’s only going to get worse.
Worse?
Four years of that ignorant menace is four years too long Penny. Those shrinks who diagnosed him as unfit for office were obviously spot on.
Regards, Bella
The man is the bloody anti Christ Bella. Rightful king of the world.
Maybe someone will kill him, I’d pray for that.
The ‘anti Christ’ you say?
I like it Wraith, very fitting for a man with zero ethics.
His secret service agents must be pissed off bigtime that the boss is making a very fluid & very long list of enemies every single day.
Regards, Bella
It turns one’s guts Bella. I’m on your side.
Don’t have much of a view on this , except to say that you should look at the wild animal numbers in south East African countries which allow hunting and those that don’t.
I was surprised when I did
Carl on the Coast says:
February 22, 2017 at 4:05 pm
Did the Galapagos about 10 years ago.
Booked it all through a travel agent in Quito. We had advice to go on the small local boats and ask for a cabin up top.
It worked out beautifully.
The funny thing was that they got their accounting wrong and overcharged me my $300. It was an honest mistake which I only noticed after I paid. No worries they said – we will give you cash when you arrive, Yeah! Right ! I thought. The guys who picked me up at the airport duly handed over an envelope with the money in it.
On the way back we did the west coast and Rocky Mtn national parks – we hired a convertible Mustang and had a ball.
Jealous
Cheers JS, thanks. Sounds encouraging. The old bucket list seems to increase as one gets older.