Publications

Publication details [#61802]

Zoonen, Elisabeth A. van and Fadi Hirzalla. 2016. “The Muslims are coming”: The enactment of morality in activist Muslim comedy. Humor 29 (2) : 261–278.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

A morality-based analytic frame, showing humor's social potentials, explores how activist Muslim comedy (like the film The Muslims are Coming!) intends to unify Muslims and non-Muslims, given their shared placidity, modernity and normalcy. This united in-group is asked to resist three out-groups: conventional Muslims, terrorists, and nescient media. These appeals also create specific restrictions, say as for gender, and tend to equate justifiable contrast.