Je Suis Charlie - and the Daily Mash guide to humour for Jihadists

Around the world millions have marched, stood in silence, or displayed the Fre3nch flag in a show of support for the French Republic and the Free World's value of the right to express your views.

Perhaps the best of all the many comments which have been made using humour to make the point was on the Daily Mash site,

The Daily Mash Guide To Satire for Jihadists.

You can read the whole thing at the above link, but it includes the following

"ARE you locked in a holy war against the West because you never get any of the jokes on Mock the Week? End that misery with our handy guide to understanding satire.

1) Make sure you are in an atmosphere conducive to humour, like a packed comedy club or in your own home with like-minded friends. If you are unable to hear the satire over the gunfire and explosions of a terrorism training camp, it is unlikely to make you laugh.

2) Look for nuances in the satirist’s statements. Do they really mean it when they say that the Iraq war was Britain’s greatest foreign policy triumph since the Suez Crisis, or could they be using irony?

3) Irony and sarcasm are ways the satirist implies meanings that they do not state outright. They are rarely used at gunpoint, however, so continue to take anyone pleading for their life at face value.

4) If you do not laugh at a joke, do not immediately resolve to hunt down and kill the satirist involved. It may simply not have been particularly funny."

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