"There Are No Jokes In Islam" Update: "Barclaycard chief forced to quit after making 'joke' about Muslims," from the Daily Mail (thanks to Twostellas):
A Barclaycard executive has been forced to quit after making an insulting remark about Muslims.Marc Howells, one of the company's leading figures, left his £200,000-a-year job following the tasteless quip during a staff meeting as he discussed quarterly figures.
Colleagues were stunned when he said: "The results were like Muslims - some were good, some were Shi'ite."
Offended members of staff complained to senior bosses about the "wholly inappropriate" comment.
Mr Howells, 42, who worked for Barclaycard's European arm and has a £2million home in St John's Wood, was forced out earlier this month after negotiating an undisclosed pay-off, classed as "redundancy under compromise".
A company source said: "No one could quite believe their ears when he came out with his Shi'ite joke.
"He had a very responsible job in a multinational company. What on earth was he thinking of?
"There were a few embarrassed guffaws but everyone except him knew he was for the high jump the moment he said it."
Such is the way of the world today.
Not to side with the worshipful disciples of Political Correctness, but I have to agree--the fool should have known better. There is no humor in PC's kingdom.
Should he be in hot water? Yes, but only hot enough to remind him to carefully consider his audience.
Was he justly treated by his company? I'm sure he wasn't.
You said it yourself, Robert: "Such is the way of the world today."
It was a stupid remark and not a good example of the political correctness that is killing us.
Here's a better use of words, from the early 1990's. In a cartoon, a long-haired hippie says "Hijackings, assassinations, car bombs..." He shrugs his houlders. "Hey, Shi'ite happens!"
Now, if this was a joke about a Christian, not only nothing would be said but the guy would be up for fast track promotion.
This is weird, as if just typed the above, up pops a a notice that someone form Istanbul wants to contact me. Oh course I decline.
What is going on?
When the hostages were taken by Iran in 1979, Shiite jokes were in with no one in the least embarrassed. They were said from lecterns and even, gasp, pulpits.
It is not nice mocking your Muslim overlords. Bad dhimmi!
He is lucky not to get 100 lashes.
I see the pact of Umar is now enforced in the UK.
What, No Riot Yet?? They're probably hanging him in effigy in Tehran (and burning it of course).
"Barclaycard executive not in Sunni mood -- sacked after making Shi'ite joke"
Sacked? Put in a Burqa? Now THAT would be real punishment!
Colleagues were stunned when he said: "The results were like Muslims - some were good, some were Shi'ite."
Now that's funny. :)
Obviously, his subordinates are not only reflexively PC, but also saw their opportunities and took 'em.
...At the man's own expense.
Excuse me but for lack of a better term the "PC" stuff is a lot of crap especially when such a laughable double standard exists. Make an offensive Christian joke and it’s conveniently ignored but not so with spurious cults such as Islam. The PC police can keep their sick social engineering programs to themselves.
hehehehe!! lollll
This is very interesting since the joke does not disparage Muslims, but merely plays on the fact that Shiite sounds like Shit in English. It is a tasteless pun, not anyway racist or derogatory. It is quite telling then about European culture that even the appearances of being disparaging of another non-western culture can get you sacked. It is almost demonic in its perversely oppressive in its result ie. no one can ever say anything remotely critical or even have the appearance of criticism of minorities.
A pox on all cowardly comedians who do not challenge this absurd cultural phenomenon.
"A company source said: "No one could quite believe their ears when he came out with his Shi'ite joke."
And these top executives who scrambled, worked hard and pushed their way to the top of the ladder were shocked by this? Wait a minute, I think I just answered my own question. They wanted him out the way so they could move on up. As Lennon said,
"There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill"
This is purely business, nothing else.
When the Shi'te hits the fan...............
Here comes the Sunni..................
Get your boards! The Sufi is up!
Wait! I forgot there is no fun in Islam........
I'm suggesting he was canned for his lack of judgement, not for making a crappy joke. As others have pointed out, the Long Knives are always out in that arena.
The employees who did this betrayed him. Part of this is immigration destroying job security. There are still places with more loyalty than this and there were many more even just a few years ago.
This is rounds of layoffs, outsourcing, H-1B visa abuse, foreign students competing for jobs, etc. This is what happens with a constant stream from the outside, you lose the friction that gives people freedom and security.
To regain our freedom of speech we have to end all immigration so that people have job security. Without job security, we don't have speech security. Without speech security we have no security. They can take everything from us including the loyalty we used to expect and get.
Have the assorted imams who openly preached hatred against Jews and homosexuals in Channel 4's "Undercover Mosque" programme been sacked yet?
No? Didn't think so. Not a peep of condemnation from their congregation or and islamic groups.
Did those offended members of staff have anything in common? Were they Baptists from Florida? Anglicans from Bath?
But it was a pretty stupid joke. Not funny (puns are among the lowest forms of humor, second only to sarcasm), and not the right way to make an insightful (inciteful?) comment about Islamic violence.
I think everyone is missing the point here!!!. Sharia banks - Barclay's - England? - Muslims calling the shots to a capitalist entity?. Forgive my ignorance, but Islam and Capitalism?. Since when did that unholy alliance materialise?.
Whatever next, St Paul's Mosque. - Akbar Ben - Iranian Palace - The tower of Islam. Every time these traitors "submit" to Islam, its just another liberty Quashed, another freedom Vanquished into the annuls of yesteryear.
My frustration is rising with every passing day. - The left submit to Islam as they despise the West. - The right, Capitalism,(IT SEEMS) submits to make profits. Our society is cajoled through threats and bullying, by quangos of governmental department.
Meanwhile Islam submits to nothing!. They give nothing!, yet demand everything through the pretence of religion. And once in a position of strength, Islam will usurp the lot.
No democracy - No freedoms - No independent thought or reasoning, (sorry guardian readers where will your place to "think" be then?.) - just blind obedience to a stone age cult.
OR DEATH!!!.
Our foundations are crumbling around our feet - our roots have been poisoned by Saudi oil - our history is rapidly fading away. A horse - A horse - My kingdom for a horse!!. WHAT KINGDOM???. - WHAT HORSE???.
"Colleagues were stunned when he said: "The results were like Muslims - some were good, some were Shi'ite."
He could have scored a bullseye if he'd simply avoided the "muslim" reference in his quip. Anybody paying attention would have gotten it and there'd have been no repercussions (as 'shite' and its variances are as common in Brit parlance, as in N. America ). Dumb; expensive mistake.
"Colleagues were stunned when he said: "The results were like Muslims - some were good, some were Shi'ite."
He flubbed the joke anyway. It should be: The results were like Muslims; Some were sunny and some were shi'ite.
Still not especially funny, but at least coherent.
Another attempt to salvage the joke:
The results were like Muslims; some are good, some are not, and there is no way to tell them apart until it is too late.
Okay, I'd be fired too.
This really shows how fast we are sinking into the shi'ite.
A couple of years ago I heard the same joke on BBC radio(of all places) and there was not a murmer then.
Way overblown! An apology and cutting out his tongue would have sufficed.
Dr. Seuss had a funny little book called the kings stilts, the minister was a spitting image of Khomeini, he hated how the king had fun walking on a pair of stilts.
But one of the blackest UNintentional humor I ever came up with was at Khomeinis funeral where the crowd bounced the coffin around and Khomeinis corpse was essentially crowd surfing.
It was alright though since the corpse obviously was not enjoying the ride. It was the first time that Khomeini ever "thought outside the box".
The battle against political correctness and Islam is a bit like pushing Shi'ite uphill with a bent pin.
well I lol'd.
- John Belushi
Barclays places peoples' bank details in muslims hands half way round the world from the UK - do they not? What can it be thinking of?
Were there any dour muslims at the meeting? If not, what the hell?! Too bad this guy's colleagues are such sophmoric, backstabbing, rat-out jerks, eager to prove their multiculti sensitivity by reporting this felony case of politically incorrect, "racist" hate speech. I'm sure "racist" was bandied about in the fracas; it has become a catch-all epithet for anyone who dares to defy cultural Marxism.
I would not last fifteen minutes in a milieu where self-censorship was a requisite for survival and where political correctness was more important than friendship, loyalty, personal freedom, individuality, even life itself. It would appear that some people have been so thoroughly indoctrinated in this insidious hogwash that they are incapable of independent thought. Group think reigns supreme, even in the corporate world. Isn't that one of islam's specialities?
Let it be a lesson for all of us. Most of us are surrounded at work by Muslims and their non-Muslim liberal moonbat sympathizers and collaborators who will not hesitate to rat you out if you make a similar remark.
Without doubt his colleagues let him down.
This is nothing to do with dhimmitude and everything to do with stabbing someone they don't like for some reason in the back (front?).
His colleagues should be ashamed of themselves and so should the board of Barclay's for giving this nasty piece of career assasination any time or credence at all.
...when can some Muslim professors, journalists, doctors, lawyers ...etc...be sacked for saying something like ..."Death to America", "Replace the Constitution with the Sha'ria", or "You are a dirty Kuffar"....
.....seems reasonable to me...
Ban Muslim Immigration...Muslim immigration is pointless and harmful to the host country...
More & better jokes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wskT6YfVB6E
Jeff Dunham - Achmed's "Jingle Bombs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go&NR=1
Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terrorist
Make fun of them every chance you get, but pick your battles and know your audience, the corporate world is a ruthless and brutal mother.
This executive may have lost his job, but he continues to breath.
Unlike the shepherds of Iraq that refused to 'diaper' their goats.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5622900
"He had a very responsible job in a multinational company. What on earth was he thinking of? There were a few embarrassed guffaws but everyone except him knew he was for the high jump the moment he said it."
At least they admit it, they've fired the only employee present who wasn't gutless.
He apparently made the mistake of assuming his fellow employees shared the trait.... something to keep it mind if you have the opportunity to decline business with Barclaycard.
Barclaycard, what are you thinking of?