{"id":56587,"date":"2011-08-14T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/56587\/muslims-coming\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T16:20:47","slug":"muslims-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/56587\/muslims-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muslims Are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this the other day and decided to share it.  I have seen these comedians on YouTube and they are very funny.  Their tour will hopefully ease some of the tension between Muslims and non-Muslims here in America.<\/p>\n<p>MURFREESBORO \u2014 &#8220;The Muslims are Coming!&#8221; comedy show, with jokes celebrating cultural differences, pleased a diverse crowd Saturday, packing most all 450 seats at MTSU&#8217;s Wright Music Building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try to bring people together,\u201d show host Dean Obeidallah told the audience at the free show and noted he was raised by a proud Christian mother and Muslim father. \u201cEveryone has the same rights and religious freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obeidallah got several laughs when he did his own version of comedian Jeff Foxworthy\u2019s \u201cYou might be a redneck if &#8230; \u201d shtick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou might be an Arab redneck if your trailer faces Mecca,\u201d Obeidallah said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnj.com\/article\/20110814\/NEWS01\/108140317\">The Muslims are coming!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this the other day and decided to share it. I have seen these comedians on YouTube and they are very funny. Their tour will hopefully ease some of the tension between Muslims and non-Muslims here in America. MURFREESBORO \u2014 &#8220;The Muslims are Coming!&#8221; comedy show, with jokes celebrating cultural differences, pleased a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19,11,840],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-lifestyles","category-people","category-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}