Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s advertisement based on his popular comedy skit, “Achmed the Dead Terrorist,” was scrubbed from South African TV because they say it mocks Islam.
The ringtone was taken from a puppet routine performed by Dunham, in a TV special on Comedy Central. A 10-minute clip of the comedian’s routine that was posted on YouTube has been viewed more than 67 million times since April.
But the government of South Africa doesn’t think it’s funny. According to iafrica.com, South Africa’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled that a GloMobile ringtone commercial featuring Dunham and his puppet was offensive to Muslims.
The commercial depicts Dunham holding his skeletal puppet, Achmed, dressed with a white cloth around his head and demanding that the audience keep quiet, uttering, “Silence! I will kill you!”
Here’s the video.
Not sure why this mocks Islam, seems to me it mocks terrorists. Maybe Muslims should channel their outrage to something more outrageous, like maybe…. Islamic terrorists killing people of all other faiths all over the world.
Jeff Dunham is perhaps the greatest ventriloquist alive… or at least the funniest
I’m tired of Muslims being offended, not that they should be because he is addressing terrorism, not the Muslim faith. If anything, other religions should be offended because of the extremist Muslim hatred of anything and everything that doesn’t agree with them. This is America. If you don’t like it, don’t look or listen, and if that doesn’t work go back to the Middle East!