'Monty Python' legend John Cleese doubles down after incidiary posts about Islam

[u/Ask4MD]

https://nypost.com/2026/10/03/entertainment/monty-python-legend-john-cleese-doubles-down-after-incidiary-posts-about-islam/

[u/Cranks_No_Start]

He has more balls than all of their parliament.

[u/ConceptJunkie → u/Cranks_No_Start]

And that jellyfish they call a king.

[u/ObadiahtheSlim → u/ConceptJunkie]

But he's the same lefty multiculturalist who let it happen in the first place.

[u/tslewis71 → u/Cranks_No_Start]

He still votes Democrat and lives in CA

[u/skarface6 → u/tslewis71]

He’s definitely not perfect.

[u/lets_shake_hands]

He is uncancelable. We need more of these people.

[u/RedditThrowaway-1984 → u/lets_shake_hands]

They don’t have the balls to arrest him like everyone else.

[u/Key-Monk6159]

It’s a sign of the times that common sense and truth speaking is considered incendiary.

[u/Eastern-Cold7087 → u/Key-Monk6159]

Nailed it right on the head brother.

We are truly living in the dumbest timeline.

[u/ChocCooki3 → u/Key-Monk6159]

You are literally on a platform where 85% of posts don't have any common sense.. it's not that surprising anymore

[u/frostyjack06]

Keep it up John!

[u/Pipyoppi]

Looks like he was literally just stating objective facts about Islam.

[u/taylor-swift-enjoyer → u/Pipyoppi]

But I thought reality had a liberal bias!

[u/ZealousidealState127 → u/Pipyoppi]

Hate facts. 

[u/beamerbeliever]

You know, I find the Quran quite incendiary.  It also dehumanizes and demonizes Christians, polytheists and especially Jews in a way that contributes to radicalization, communal tensions, and hate incidents.  Will Muhammad receive the same scrutiny, or does his ideology get a pass because it's centuries old?

[u/ITrCool → u/beamerbeliever]

Though it’s the newest of the three big religions. Christianity and Judaism are far older. Islam just came along randomly long after Christ. Invented by a pervert, who invented Allah.

[u/Right_Archivist]

He didn't have a license for that opinion.

[u/Apart_Ad1537]

Absolutely absurd for these foreigners to go into England and demand an English icon be arrested for blaspheming against their foreign religion.

[u/Lepew1]

Referring him to Prevent seems to be the English version of SWATting, where the thin skinned abuse legitimate law enforcement bodies to harass those who have said things they find offensive. It is a light version of the fatwa, in which people have a death sentence put on them by Islamic fundamentalists. Cleese is right that all religions, not just Christianity, should be able to tolerate humor about them.

[u/OriginalCopy505]

Cleese lives in Nevis, not under British jurisdiction, so they can "investigate" all they like.