It causes irritation that Arjen Lubach destroys the people of the SGP, but at the same time dares not to say anything about Islam. “Is Arjen Lubach cowardly because doesn’t want to make jokes about it?”
Arjen Lubach has on the radio It is known that for fear he makes no jokes or critical items about Islam. “If I now show a broadcast long Mohammed cartoons, then I have to move and then police officers have to live around me for the rest of my life. Yes, sorry, but I don’t have that for it,” said the RTL 4 Satiricus.
“Arjen is cowardly!”
There is no hair on Arjen’s head who thinks of Islam jokes. “The brave that you do, whatever you think of Theo van Gogh, are then also killed. Yes, can call me cowardly for days, but everyone would reason.”
Humberto Tan opens his show RTL Tonight with it. “Is Arjen Lubach now cowardly because he doesn’t want to make jokes about Islam? Lale Gül says,” Yes, that’s he, “and I say,” Can you determine that yourself? “
‘I don’t get it’
Lale is disappointed in Arjen. “Yes, absolutely. I don’t understand him. I find the statements he makes in that interview urgent, explosively and a lot, because I compare it to a crime journalist who says:” I’m not going to write about Bolle Jos, “or a police officer who says:” I’m not going to detect a murderer because then I am at danger. “
“Then we would all say,” Yes, wait a minute. This is your profession, you have to do your job, you get salary and admiration for that. ” I also see it with a satirist, but somehow we do not say collective: Hey, wait a while, the country’s best -known satirist says openly in an interview that he does not take his profession seriously. ”
Toothless
After all, that is the case, according to Lale. “He actually says,” I think Islam is a big problem. ” He even says that it is a bigger problem than Christianity, “That has become toothless, I have nothing more to fear, but Islam is getting bigger, more vocal to other groups then and yet I will never make jokes about that.”
Why? She paraphrases Arjen: “Not because I find it irrelevant or can’t come up with nice jokes about it, but pure for fear. I don’t feel like heavy security, threats, that my editors feel unsafe and I don’t feel like ending as Theo van Gogh.”
Court
Cowardly, says Lale. “If you listen carefully, he says that he does not take his profession seriously. A little satirist says: ‘Wait a moment, I am not a court jester and I am not just going to make safe jokes about harmless topics. No, I will challenge power and everything is discussed! I am the canary in the coal mine, that is my Raison d’être As a satirist! ”
What does Arjen say about it herself? He says: “The fragment that is quoted is a small piece from a longer conversation about religion and satire. I make jokes about everything, sometimes about Islam. Yet reality is also the case that mocking what people find can still lead to threats and unsafe situations.”
Sad
It also affects Arjen, he says. “As a public joke, I also have a lot to do with that. That I have to make certain considerations in it, I find sad, but unfortunately necessary to be able to live a free life.”
Arjen must therefore leave other religions alone, says Telegraaf star Wierd Duk Today Inside. “Lubach is bashing the SGP and then I think: nice and easy, because you will never get it at the door. Then you also have to be consistent. If you are too cowardly to tackle Islam, then you should not look for an easy target at the SGP.”