Fox News Interview: "Why Would a Muslim Write a Book About Jesus?"

[Hal_Jordan]

It's based on the joke that some people will take an allegory (in this case replacing religion with apes) and those who misundersand it think they are being insulted by the allegory even though it's meant to convey something else.

So basically he said anyone who's not Muslim/Human is an ape to the eyes of the insulted. And since many Christians do not believe man descended from apes (which is technically true, it's a descendent we share with apes that we came from), he's insulting them there too saying that Muslims are human, everyone else is an ape. It's not true of course but that was the joke.

Actually, I was making the point that someone does not need to actually be an ape to study them extensively and be considered an expert on them.

Much like you don't have to be a Christian to study the religion extensively and be an expert on the subject. Something this reporter just couldn't grasp the concept of.

 

[Teelie]

I know that but my comment was meant to be a play on what I was saying. "You're calling us apes now?" as opposed to actually being a response to the comment itself. The take away was that focusing on the apes segment over the allegory was ironically the very thing that happened here with the reporter ignoring the book to focus on the author's religion and who was more qualified than she was to even discuss it.

 

[Hal_Jordan]

I know that but my comment was meant to be a play on what I was saying. "You're calling us apes now?" as opposed to actually being a response to the comment itself. The take away was that focusing on the apes segment over the allegory was ironically the very thing that happened here with the reporter ignoring the book to focus on the author's religion and who was more qualified than she was to even discuss it.

Oh sorry, I misunderstood what you were responding to.

 

[Teelie]

Doctor Evo didn't get my joke reference. Sometimes I think they are a little too obscure.

 

[Doctor Evo]

It's based on the joke that some people will take an allegory (in this case replacing religion with apes) and those who misundersand it think they are being insulted by the allegory even though it's meant to convey something else.

Ah, I see. Seems like a leap, but I suppose that was the point.

And since many Christians do not believe man descended from apes (which is technically true, it's a descendent we share with apes that we came from)...

This is a common misinterpretation: we ARE descended from apes - in fact, we are apes. You're referring to the argument that we aren't descended from modern apes, which is a rebuttal to the idea that we descended from chimps, or gorillas, etc.

The family Hominidae - to which we belong - contains all of the great apes; thus, the common ancestor to all four genera in that family (Homo, Pan, Gorilla, and Pongo) would be considered an ape.