Humor and free speech are ideals that Islam cherishes.

Violence and terror solves nothing and are doomed to fail. Humor and free speech are ideals that Islam cherishes. Remarkably, our Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, was always seen with a smile on his face. One of his name is ad-\a^^ak...the smiling one. People were allowed to speak their minds in his presence and he never got angry with them even when his companions got terribly upset and urged violence as a means of silencing dissent.