Sweet Home

It's really odd when you have to define exactly why something is offensive. Sometimes it's just flabbergastingly hard to get out. Maybe to you it makes perfect sense that Christians in a majority-Christian nation making tasteless jokes about Muslims is, well, tasteless. I guess if I had to explain why this man's "joke" was not only unfunny but also mean-spirited and offensive, I would say that Muslims get a bad rap from extremists and that such "harmless" jokes only serve to further a perception of untrustworthiness, danger, and implied inferiority that our [American] (let alone Alabamian) Muslim neighbors have neither earned nor deserved. I would say that I'd like to see how the same people who say it's "just harmless fun" react to more overtly racial remarks about other minorities, however, I'm pretty confident I already know how that'll go.

I submit that perhaps you would never have to vigorously defend your "well-intended, innocent fun" if it was, in fact, that. Unless you're a moron.

Related reading:
Patrol Mag: More of Christians reasoning badly
NPR: The shoe on the other foot. Sure, point out the violence of the Muslims [but be sure to ignore the political malfeasance and skullduggery behind it]. But, minus the overt violence, it would seem that Christians do their fair share of persecution here in God's country, too.