Are Muslims the 'saddest' community of people? Lighten up muzzies, we're only joking.

My halal brother, I too lived in Bradford for 8 and a half years. PM me and i'll give you a tour of BD2/3. All i've done my whole life is socialise with Muslims and I did say that a very small % of them took things too seriously, not the other way.

If you are admitting that a very small % of them did, then I don't understand the point of the whole thread.
This is the thing, I have no idea why its always about Muslims, it is annoying that 9 out of 10 times I find a thread on my home page about Muslims, while about 3 out of 10 times I see a thread about other religions.

By this I mean they can't take jokes. Everything turns serious and what initially was supposed to be a light-hearted casual discussion, turns into a hate-filled 'you diss my relligion, i'll chop off your neck' debate.

I understand Islam to be the 'religion of peace', apparently, and I accept that the media do portray the religion negatively and the opposite of the above, and yes, the media are idiots, but some individuals (even if only a small %), turn out to be what the media claim.

Now I know these are the 'idiot' Muslims, who are probably only by-name, but I mean the ordinary practising ones, still take things way to seriously, often. For example, white comedian says something about Muslims, somebody says the same joke in a discussion, Muslim people kick-off. Yet, when Muslim comedian says something, Muslims just laugh along as the white people being laughed at.

White people don't care, they laugh too, "Yeah we drink beer, eat bacon and shag women, and what?" Yet, if you said something like that about Muslims, some of them would start arguments and fights, even if you don't mean disrespect to the religion. Why aren't they more open-minded and willing to play along to jokes?

No offence is meant or cause by this post, and I understand religion is a serious issue to many people, but forget jokes, you mention the word 'Jew' or 'zionist' or anything of the sort in a discussion and 55 Muslims rant, "Let's stone his dad" and what not.

Discuss, I guess?

quite simple.

Islam is a way of life, not like Christianity, where the majority of people go to church for a bit on sundays, if that. Islam has a lot of aspects that cause it to become integrated into your life, and thus you don't attack people's religion, but also their beliefs, morals, culture, etc. It's easy for non-muslims to laugh it off because there are very few people who actually are devoted to their religion, whilst in Islam there is a much larger majority of people who are. This, coupled with some influential extremist muslims that preach non-islamic values (hate everyone who isn't a muslim, even as far as promoting terrorism, etc.) to a lot of uneducated and ignorant muslims who eat all this up, is bound to result in a very sensitive mind when it comes to the issue of religion.

quite simple.

This, coupled with some influential extremist muslims that preach non-islamic values (hate everyone who isn't a muslim, even as far as promoting terrorism, etc.) to a lot of uneducated and ignorant muslims who eat all this up, is bound to result in a very sensitive mind when it comes to the issue of religion.

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I think I stopped reading after this.

Where???

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