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Comedy Jihad with Sakdiyah Ma'ruf
(The Feed) Arranged marriages, domestic violence, patriarchy, and fundamentalists' secret obsession with porn are just the beginning when it comes to the controversial jokes from Sakdiyah Ma'ruf. [The original meaning of jihad, by the way, is the struggle against oneself to be good and pure not against others to be Muslim.] (The Feed: facebook.com/SBS2Australia, twitter, instagram, tumblr).
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Taking on extremism one penis joke at a time
Taking on extremism with Indonesia's first female Muslim comedian
Sakdiyah Ma’ruf’s comedy "opens this place of play" to talk about being a woman in her Muslim community with its cultural prejudices. We as, "Is it dangerous for us to be with you?"
"I don't know, perhaps if they heard that halal [kosher] condom joke," she answers.
Sakdiyah Ma'ruf — Islamic Indonesia's first female Muslim comedian — doesn't always get a good reaction to her comedy, to say the least. She's been harassed and threatened by religious extremist groups and accused of betraying Islam, but for her it's a important way to speak out that makes her feel alive.
"I always knew that I need to say something about my experiences growing up, about the experiences of women in my community."
Maybe it's time to rise up for our rights?
As religious extremism increases in Indonesia, Sakdiyah wants to foster understanding and break down barriers: "I can open this place of play for people to think about their own prejudices, about the life of Muslims."
"With comedy I really feel alive. You can come from a completely different background. But if we can share similar ideas, concerns, anxieties, pain...then you can connect to them in a more meaningful way."
In 2015, she was awarded the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent at the Oslo Freedom Forum, an event that doesn't escape playful skewering in her act:
"Oh my god, you're a Muslim woman in Indonesia and you're brave enough to speak up! Let me give you an award and a ticket to Oslo so you can breathe the fresh air of freedom and human rights."
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(The Feed) Arranged marriages, domestic violence, patriarchy, and fundamentalists' secret obsession with porn are just the beginning when it comes to the controversial jokes from Sakdiyah Ma'ruf. [The original meaning of jihad, by the way, is the struggle against oneself to be good and pure not against others to be Muslim.] (The Feed: facebook.com/SBS2Australia, twitter, instagram, tumblr).
What must life be like for Muslim females in the largest Muslim country in the world (Indonesia), which was formerly a Buddhist and Hindu country near India? This student film was made by English Department #14 Muhammadiyah at the University of Metro, Indonesia, edited by Aan Fergian (youtube.com/aanfergian, instagram.com/fergiaan).
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