If Joey Rasdien had said anything remotely negative about Judaism or Christianity, he would have been celebrated as an “edgy” and “iconoclastic” comedian. But when he dared say something mildly critical about Islam, he and the organizers of the event where this took place had to issue abject apologies. The whole world is cowering in fear before barbarians who will murder you for insulting them.
“WATCH: Comedian apologises after causing uproar at festival,” by Yasmine Jacobs, IOL.za, July 23, 2017:
Cape Town – South African comedian Joey Rasdien has apologised for comments that he made during his slot at the Ilm Arts Festival at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday.
He apologised in the form of a tweet wherein he expressed its intention to be satirical….
“There is this other brah. This is going to be a bit controversial. I love Islam but there are certain things that make me wonder. That brah that wrote 40 000 hadiths in two years. there are 365 days in a year which makes it 740 days in two years,” he said at the festival.
The ‘brah’ that he referred to was one of the companions to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
“There’s 365 days in a year which makes it 740 days in two years which gives you 1440 minutes per day, plus you must sleep. How can you write forty thousand hadiths in two years?”
Shortly after that, he made remarks about women who were clearly offended by his comments.
He was then told to get off the stage by one of the audience.
The organisers have distanced themselves from the comedian and and have also apologised to those who were offended….
Dwayne Austin says
“If Joey Rasdien had said anything remotely negative about Judaism or Christianity, he would have been celebrated as an “edgy” and “iconoclastic” comedian.”
Not exactly true. Large numbers of Jews in attendance would have labeled him an antisemite. It’s Christians that don’t seem respond to verbal attacks…
BC says
he should know that the only thing we infidels are allowed to do is shut up and not say anything about Islam or Moh., no matter how ridiculous and inconsistent something may be. That is what ‘islamophobia’ was created for. Muslims are like spoiled brats praise is all they want to hear.
John Forbes says
This is just another PUSH for ISLAM to have special status above all others as the writings of the KORAN Claim ! ISLAM being the LAST & FINAL ONE !!!!!!!!
UTTER NONSENSE but DANGEROUS NONSENSE !!!!!!!!!!!!
This is why it is so important to PRINT CARTOONS & CRITICISE this IDEOLOGY so that it FOLLOWERS fully understand that n the 21 st Century it will never have a place above OTHER FAITHS !! NOT EVER !!
MUSLIM JIHIADI JUSTIN will of course find this terribly DISTRESSING & PASS WIND along with more BLASPHEMY LAWS but so be it !!!!
Ebrahim says
If Christians and Jews don’t take religion serious or the “Word / Divine words of God” serious then please don’t blame the Muslims. If you can laugh at Jesus been crucified or mocked at then go ahead. I and probably the rest of the Muslims do not tolerate religious jokes and this is about any religion.
PaulM says
Sure thing buddy. You are a hypocrite. There is no other sick, evil, satanic religion on the face of this earth other than your cult that condones and kills people for drawing cartoons. That allows for sexually molesting babies and little girls. Your prophet was nothing more than a dope smoking child molester who married a little girl at 5 years of age, then raped her repeatedly when she turned 9. You do see or hear of other religious zealots out there blowing themselves up and taking thousands of lives of innocents with them. Get your head out of your own ass and stop being such a zombie. Oh and by the way, if you are going to rebut me? Use your own “terrorist handbook”, the Koran ok?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
The unfunny comedian cohort uses the pretext of “art” to mete out their regular thumps of agitprop, all of it leftists. This Rasdien guy seems to have the unfunny comedian part down, but is confused about which side he’s supposed to be on.
The cohort includes the likes of Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Kathy Griffin, the entire SNL cast past and present (including a U.S. Senator), Lewis Black… there is a long unfunny list, all of them pro-Moslems. Or they better be.
BC says
Lewis black is the funniest guy on the planet
BC says
Plus he is not pro Islam or pro any religion in fact I do not think he is pro anything!
Lucia Bartoli says
Just the same old trailer trash.
somehistory says
740 days? Isn’t that an extra 10?
Besides not being funny, it also isn’t insulting. But then, moslums are insulted by crooked shadows.
There is no logic in islum…even some moslums have said so. So they are insulted that someone questions a moslum’s ability to write that much nonsense in two years..even with an extra 10 days.
Dan says
What?
The Religion of Peace send him a death threat?
TheDane says
The World has gone bananaz!!
TheDane says
I think all non-moslems in the World should do something offensive to moslems. How will they deal with that? Issue fatwas or nuke us all? … probably both.
Westman says
There is no humor in Islam – said Ayatollah Khomeini. There is when viewed from without. There also seems to be very little math skill.
Guy Macher says
Western men arise–we must take back the world!
moeped says
+1
But is it what destabilizing forces want in the first place?
I believe we have to take it “case by case”. IE if you hear of a grooming gang in your area, mobilize and show that it won’t be tolerated. React like the Sikhs did in the UK.
Case by case defense is what we need to prevent future violence.
moeped says
F*uck those who are offended. Especially by what this guy said. NEVER apologize for speaking the truth or questioning. It’s what makes us great. F*uck the over-sensitive religious death squads. F*uck them all to hell!
Gitstupha Ubasta says
Exactly right. Ridiculous ideas shouldvALWAYS be held to ridicule and islam is the most ridiculous offensive psycopathy on the planet.
Lydia says
That would be 54.054 hadiths per day (a little over 54 each day).
I don’t know how long these things are.
Either way, they are all wrong anyway so he wasted a lot of time.
Katnis says
The fact that he’s taking a shot at islam in the first place is fantastic. Good for you, Joey!
Watch the entire video. You can see people leaving at the end of it. You can also hear audience members complaining that “you can’t talk about Islam like that.”
Oh yes we can. We need more Joeys and we need comedians with broader reach. Keep it up!
mortimer says
Joey Rasdien points out that the stories about writing 40,000 hadiths in only two years are not credible. His math proves that. By using a similar approach we can prove the story about Bukhari editing the hadiths cannot be correct. Bukhari supposedly eliminated 90% of the hadiths by analyzing them. But how did he do that?
Out of 0.6 million hadiths, Bukhari selected only 0.46% as trusted. But what was Bukhari’s criterion of that ‘trust’? Do you know? We do not know what tools he used to judge ‘trust’.
What we actually do know is that it took Bukhari 16 years to analyze 0.6 million hadiths.
Bukhari could not possibly authenticate 600 000 Ahadith in 16 years at the rate of 7 min/hadith.
In order to judge over 600,000 hadiths within 16 years, working full-time, Bukhari could have spent NO MORE than 7 minutes on every single hadith. The breakdown is as follows:
-600,000 hadith / 16 years = 37,500 per year = 3,125 per month = 104.66 per day
-Assuming no breaks for lunch, 5 times prayer, toilet, public holidays, sick days, etc.
-30 work days in a month = 8.72 hadith per hour (assuming a 12 hour day=12 hr x 60 minutes= 720minutes a day).
-104.66 hadiths per 720 minute-day=approx.6.88 minutes per hadith
-8.72 hadiths per hour (60 minutes/8.72 hadiths) =approx.6.88 minutes per hadith
-It is unlikely that Bukhari analysed any hadith properly in less than seven minutes per hadith.
-If Bukhari had devoted a more reasonable one hour per hadith, it would have taken him 136.9 years to look at 600,000 hadiths, working every day and not taking any breaks. According to the legend, it took only 16 years to do this Herculean task. Working 16 years, 12 hours a day and devoting 1 hour to each hadith, Bukhari would only have looked at 70,080 hadiths, a mere 8.5% of them.
Conclusion: The story of Bukhari analyzing 600,000 ahadith in a mere 16 years defies the common sense. Therefore, the hadiths of Bukhari are not credible and Islam is not credible.
Musalmaanmasala says
Islam IS NOT CREDIBLE is known. Thats why its followers take umbrage at the drop of a hat at anything that puts it in a bad light. The Koran is full of holes. The hadiths cannot be trusted whether s
“sahi” or not and Joey Rasdien and you are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT in youir calculations.
Now as Christ says in the Gospels “Listen ye who have ears to hear and eyes to see” ISLAM IS FAKE.
Michael Snow says
Unfortunately and I mean this, I can hardly understand a word he is saying.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; Interesting how all these all-powerful deities need humans to defend them.
Interesting, that.
John A. Marre says
That’s not even a criticism.
Muslims are perpetually enraged. They are taught that anger is the best way to respond to anything they don’t like. And non-Muslims bow down in complete submission and give way to Muslims’ rage.
It’s safe to trash Christianity. You won’t have your head chopped off. No matter what you say, you’ll only get laughs from people who don’t know who the fuck they are, don’t practice any part of Christianity, don’t even call themselves Christians, and are Christians in name only.
rabrooks says
If the muzzies are so put-off by the show, stay home!
Rick Spencer says
It was an act at a Muslim convention, with the emphasis on marriage. Yusuf ‘Joey’ Rasdien is a Muslim himself, previously very popular in the SA Muslim community, which totals only about 700,000 – 800,000 citizens or 1.5 % of the SA population.