Talk:Azhar Usman

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Reliable sources
I cleaned up the "External links" section to fit with our guidelines and there were some reliable sources in there which could help if anybody wants to add content to this article as they can be cited in the References section. I've listen them below.

- Them From  Space  17:57, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
 * BBC interview with Azhar Usman
 * BBC: Muslim comedians laugh at racism
 * PBS on Azhar Usman

Incorrect Quote
I removed a quote Azar supposedly said, which was "his sole goal, through comedy, is to promote better understanding of Islam and Muslims.". The citing reference was a transcript from This ABC Australia National Radio show. No where in that article can the given quote be found, the closest thing to it was: I mean this is recorded in our tradition and it's sound, authentic, preserved tradition about specific jokes that he made about how he laughed, incidents upon which he would laugh, and even those incidents when he laughed more than he did regularly, because he was known as being such a jovial prophet, he was always smiling, and they say that the prophet was always laughing, and laughing in his case meant smiling, but on occasion he would even laugh to such a degree that his rear molars could be seen, which obviously means he was really laughing. Again, it's a lost part of our tradition, so I think that it's wonderful to study it and learn about it, and one of my goals is to actually bring that out, and I'm hoping to perhaps in the next one to two years, put together some literature about this subject.

This was deemed incorrect for a radio interview given by him January, 09, 2010 on Minnesota Public Radio's show "All Things Considered" in which the host asks him about this quote on Wikipedia and he says: I don't know where that quote came from because I never said that. That's a testament to wikipedia being a useless and unreliable resource. Skip to the 7:30 mark to hear the excerpt.

--Pavleck (talk) 10:46, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Career section
I just removed the sentence "He has performed in over a twenty countries on five continents" which is a repeat from the first paragraph. This entire section could use some editing, but I'm not familiar enough with the topic. Shmuel A. Kam (talk) 09:58, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

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