Therefore, we joke about Jesus but not about Muhammad.

Therefore, we joke about Jesus but not about Muhammad.
KRÖNIKA TV4's open night before Christmas Eve was the subject of a small viewer storm. This is because, in a humorous sketch in many people's minds, you joked a little too coarse and on an inappropriate occasion about Jesus and the Christmas gospel. Critics, including a leadership writer at Sydsvenskan, hear and amaze, have also pointed out that one would never have joked about that way about Muhammad and Muslim feast traditions. That's right, but there is an explanation for this that most people miss.



The first and for most obvious reason why Swedish comedians refrain from joking about Islam is of course that they are afraid of the lifeblood. When Muslims get upset, as we have experienced, not everyone is content to call and complain. The survivors of the attack against the French saturday magazine Charlie Hebdo can confirm this, as well as our own Lars Vilks and the satirists who Danish Jyllands-Posten used to make a series of Muhammad caricatures.

But there is also another reason. Islam and Muslim culture, in contrast to Christianity and Christian culture, are not part of our common Sweden and therefore not a source for our humorists. Humor is a lot about creating miracle mirrors that we recognize in. The absence of recognition, also lacks humor.

From a politically correct point of view, Islam is often claimed to be part of Sweden, but outside of the chattering classrooms, reality looks different. The humor scene is a receipt for it. What is not joking about there is not part of the popular community.

When we joke about Jesus we drive with ourselves. When we joke about Muhammad, we drive "the other". If Muslims were part of a Swedish "we" and not a foreign "judgment" we would thus drive ourselves when we joke about Islam, and it would thus be difficult to assert racism. Possibly one could refer it to oikophobia in case the humor was of the more humiliating kind.

The contradictory here is that those who most eagerly advocate that Islam and Muslim culture are part of Sweden are also those who strongly condemn that we are joking about Islam and stamping it as racism. On the contrary, one seems to want to cement segregation and exclusion behind words such as integration and inclusion. The goal seems to be that the immigrant and the Muslim should always be taboo for the comedians and be kept outside the Swedish folk community.

The question that needs to be asked is: Who benefits from the fact that the immigrant and the Muslim continue to be portrayed as a victim in an alienation with the Swedish people as scapegoats - left-wing parties in search of new groups to wear aprons after the collapse of communism, academic institutions such as Södertörn University College, globalism engineers , separatist and fundamentalist immigrant organizations?

As so often in the case of postmodernists and multiculturalists, this also lacks in logic and consistency. One should both have and eat the cake - Islam, Muslims and immigrants are part of "we" and Sweden when it suits the narrative but becomes a "judgment" and a vulnerable group when it fits the agenda better.

In Sweden, we have a long tradition of joking with ourselves and our culture - everything from old farming comic to contemporary TV series like the Solsidan. Comedy about Swedish lantis and baby loops still live in humor series such as Uti gay, and Swedish white trash can also be joked about, as in Morran and Tobias.
But woe to the one who's even struggling to do something like dysfunctional immigrant families in the "locality". And yet, the key to entering Swedish society is probably just as much in the embryonic humor as in language and jobs that our politicians are constantly rattling as an integration mantra.

The movie Life of Brian could be made 40 years ago without major protests, except from the Archbishop of Canterbury. A corresponding paraphrase of Muhammad's life is still completely impossible. Try, albeit not at all, the same ingenious level as the Monty Python gang has been made and ended in bloodbathing and, moreover, in fierce condemnation, from both the Muslims themselves and from the Western Left's liberal opinion establishment, including our own supposedly impartial and objective state television.

Even Irish, who take their Catholicism far more seriously than we Swedes do with our Protestantism, can allow themselves to joke about religion. An example from the same era as Life of Brian is Irish comedian Dave Allen (David Tynan O'Mahony) whose lifeless operation with the Catholic Church was a standing feature of his show.

If Muslims and other foreign immigrants want to become part of Sweden - which one often has strong reasons to question - they must stop taking themselves so seriously. Then they must not only learn to tolerate, but also to laugh at Muhammad as a ridiculous roundabout dog or even with a bomb in the turban.

But it seems to be infinitely far away. Today, many immigrants cannot even compliment without feeling vulnerable to racism. And our politically correct and alleged diversity-challenging establishment counter-productively fuels that experience instead of helping to remove it.

We do remember all the HD columnist Patrik Lundberg adopted by South Korea and his self-pity under the headline "You are struggling for the soul from me" that people could imagine that he was good at pinging because he looks like a Chinese, and his criticism of Fazer's China sweets that got the company's frightened management to immediately remove the happy cartoon from the packaging.

In one stroke, one had in their inclusive diversity diver done the exact opposite - excluding a whole group from the public space in Sweden and definitely like some one may produce with a little humor and satire. Swedish media poured lots of water on Lundberg's "poor mey" mill. There was no hesitation in how sorry it was about this journalist with his own column in Helsingborgs Dagblad and later in Aftonbladet.

Another person most of us remember regret from his supposedly vulnerable position in the racist Sweden's gutter is the author and playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri. In a difficult example of pekorail journalism, he then urged Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask to change his skins with him to experience how terrible he is with racist structures, discrimination and oppression where he moves between the writer's salons and Dagens Nyheter's cultural side.

A more recent example is how SVT, the past week, struck up a great deal about Swede's racist attitudes to foreign-born doctors. In one episode, an upset female doctor during the vignette tells "So the doctor meets the patients' racism" about how it happened that a patient greeted her welcome to Sweden. Another has given her compliments for her beautiful dark eyes.

Support in the opinion that this is an example of difficult structural racism, she was understood from SVT. If she was hesitant before, she is convinced now - clearly you should feel offended, discriminated against and exposed to everyday racism, threatens SVT. If you do not, you lack the ethnic equivalent of what Marxism calls for class consciousness. Such a turn that SVT is there and enlightens you, so that you are not led by dark forces to believe that you as a doctor are privileged in some way.

Yes, who is really the most vulnerable immigrant in Sweden - is it the evening newspaper columnist, the playwright and the author or doctor? Choosing to belong to one of these groups certainly feels like choosing between plague and cholera.

As long as immigrants and Muslims have this attitude and their instigators within the left-wing liberal opinion establishment, they support that attitude, they will never become part of Sweden. Humor where we laugh at ourselves and our peculiarities is a good litmus test on what and which are part of a Swedish "we". Only when Swedish comedians are allowed to joke about immigrant background and Islam, these can be claimed to be included in the Swedish language.
And that ball lies with the immigrants and the Muslims themselves. When they laugh at instead of shouting for racism or committing a terrorist act, they have signaled that they want to play and play. Being a part of Sweden is about being prepared to play ball, not about separating parts of the Swedish territory separately, and then picking some raisins from the Swedish welfare cake.

When it becomes equally allowed to draw a history of Somalia as drawing a Norwegian story, when TV4 can send out crazy satirical humor kits about Islam during Ramadan and Robert Gustafsson and Johan Rheborg are allowed to make a TV series where you without barring drives with a socially mismatched immigrant family in Rinkeby, then we begin to approach something that can be called an inclusive multicultural society in which everyone regardless of origin and religious affiliation is part of the Swedish community.

Thriving representatives of immigrant groups and Muslims as well as the entire Swedish establishment that claims to have such an inclusive society as their goal are currently working diametrically opposite. But if you want to be part of the Swedish laughter's community, one must also find that one is, at least, the object of this laughter.
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