STANDING UP FOR ISLAM: Muslim comics

Posted on November 17th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

STANDING UP FOR ISLAM: Muslim comics, like many blacks and Jews before them, are creating humor born of despair

“I’m an American,” he boomed inside a Chicago comedy club on a recent night. “But I’m an American Muslim, and, in fact, I consider myself a very patriotic American Muslim, which means I would die for this country …”

He pauses for a second and lowers his voice.

“… by blowing myself up.”

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