I have a question for Muslims who watch the Daily Show

[everythingsxen]

especially non-American Muslims.

How funny do you find the various comments made during the "This week in God" segments?

Like the typical running gag of...

Stephen Colbert: *God machine noise finishes* ... Islam: *totally deadpan serious* A great religion for which I have the deepest respect.

And other running gags like that in that segment where they put extra emphasis on being polite to seemingly avoid being blown up.

I think it is pretty funny and I was wondering how it played in the Muslim world -- if at all.

[imenja]

1. I'm not Muslim but

I can pretty much guarantee it didn't play well.
All Muslims don't blow people up. They'd resent the broad association between their religion and terrorism.

I love Jon Stewart, and I laugh along with him. But culturally sensitive it's not.

[itaintoveryet]

2. i would bet

they would find this a lot more funny if they weren't constantly being harassed from all sides.

[livinbella]

3. That is pretty damn sickening

He can be a bastard.
This is why I don't watch him.
When he starts spending equal time talking shit about likud, let me know. I still won't watch him.

[imenja]

8. he makes fun of Jews ALL THE TIME

though I don't remember any specific jokes about Likud. He must have made some though, since everything on that show is a joke.

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. He spares no religion including his own.

[Bridget Burke]

12. If you don't watch him....

How can you know what he says?

[Book Lover]

4. I'm an atheist but I used to be a serious Catholic

and if there had been a Daily Show when I was religious, I'd have been pissed off at This Week in God overall, because to that mindset, it is completely disrespectful to all religions. OTOH, it is impossible to make any joke about any religion without pissing someone off, so you might as well just make the jokes.

[livinbella]

7. BS. When he starts talking shit about likud, you let me know.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. LOL! He has a field day with Sharon.

I've definitely heard him poke at that right wing party.

[livinbella]

5. What the hell do you find amusing about demonizing Islam?

[bzmtq5]

6. Not a Muslim but....

The peaceful and terrorist Muslims are the yin and yang of the very dualism that monotheism abhors.

[Ian David]

11. I think you miss the point...

Jon is satarizing the xian-fundies like Dubya who pay lipservice to respecting Islam, and then decclare we are "on a crusade."

[bzmtq5]

13. Ditto

[imenja]

14. Not always

and last night was one example where that wasn't what he was doing