TV’s lighter side of Islam a hit but not everyone’s laughing
Sanna Trad; 17/5/08
“Go home, Osama,” was not a particularly clever insult. “Go to hell, you educated pigs,” was much better, although a little unexpected. Waleed Aly, a counter-terrorism expert and founding member of the new SBS comedy Salam Cafe, reckons there came a point where the racist insults he received in the street stopped offending him and started making him laugh. “The funniest thing is the one-liners you get,” he said. “How can you compete with comedy like that? After a while it stops being offensive and just starts being funny.” Salam Cafe, the brainchild of the show’s regular panel members Mr Aly, Ahmed Imam and Susan Carland, takes a rare look at the funnier side of the issues that affect Muslims.
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