Lighten up.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Journalism - Brief article

Religions generally tend to be short on humor. I'm a Christian, but I wish Jesus had as much of Cervantes and Twain in his soul as they did of him in theirs. All this gets me to Islam, which, I must say, seems to me the most humorless of all religions. Even in a relatively tolerant Muslim nation like Morocco, a magazine editor and a reporter were recently convicted of defamation for printing what the Washington Post's Craig Whitlock describes as "heard-on-the-street jokes about religion and politics." Whitlock...