Making Fun With Muslims

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Please see the special note at the bottom of this week’s Muslim Connect. 

Since humor provides a unique understanding of culture, and Muslim Connect has been dreadfully serious for a couple of weeks, I’d like to point you to some places where you can laugh along with Muslims.

Khalid Al Ameri, @KhalidAlAmeri
Fair warning: If you click one of these links, you may not surface for a while, but you will be happier when you do! (This is also the answer to the question, “Why did Muslim Connect come out on Friday instead of Thursday this week?) Khalid and his wife Salama are Emiratis. They are charming, beautiful and funny. Their videos, which have multiple millions of views, show a warm and insightful side of Muslim life in Dubai and beyond. At one to three minutes long, it’s easy to eat a whole box!

Here are a couple of favs (Arab hand signs, Snow fight) and the whole list.

Nigar Nazar
Nazar is the preeminent cartoonist of Pakistan. Her popular character is Gogi, according to the BBC, “a progressive, educated Pakistani woman who wears polka-dotted dresses – and is loved by thousands around the world.” Nazar delivers her social commentary with a pleasant dose of cuteness.

Muslim Women Comedians
Because tastes and boundaries vary, let me just point you to this list. I can’t endorse all these comedians, but number 4, Maysoon Zayid is very funny and her TED talk is pretty clean. Here’s a briefer snippet, with one bad word.

If you have other examples of Muslims being funny, I’d love to hear them. Post them in the comments or shoot me an email. Thank you.

I appreciate that you trust me enough to read Muslim Connect. If you have any trust left over, please check out my friend, brilliant global researcher, Justin Long’s Roundup. It’s a weekly collection of amazing resources and insight. If Muslim Connect is a curveball on the corner of the plate, Roundup is the World Series! 

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  1. DeMars

    OK Khalid was pretty funny. I watched a pile of them and they just go on and on. Of course, somehow in the middle I got somehow off track and was watching PBR which was pretty amazing. All those bucking bulls. But I went back and found a few more Khalids. I like the one he did on why we eat together on one plate. I thought it was so true what he said about when you share the same plate, you know what that person likes, and doesn’t like. You really know them. And in a true marriage with agape love (in my words) you would want to bless the person you are sharing the plate with. Nice. Gaylene

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