Admittedly, this explains a lot
July 9, 2008
Given my recent encounters with Shaukat Khawja and my observation that the man’s sense of humour is only slightly less dead than Muhammad, this quote from the Ayatollah Khomeni (a man Shaukat holds in some measure of esteem) seems all the more relevant:
Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam. There is no fun in Islam. There can be no fun and joy in whatever is serious.
Quite. I’ve always preferred the Jewish nugget of wisdom that observes (and here I paraphrase) that if you can’t laugh at jokes about your own Religion, you don’t take your religion seriously enough.
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