When Islam meets comedy - Salman Rushdie, Crackhouse Comedy and hundreds of death threats
August 15, 2022
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as posted by the channelIn the wake of Salman Rushdie being cancelled by an apparent Islamist attack, I look at two other recent examples of religious intolerance affecting comedy. Crackhouse Comedy Club in Kuala Lumpur was shut down following a performance at an open mic night deemed insulting to Islam, and in the UK a comedian received hundreds of death threats after professing his sexual preference on a podcast.
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