Cape Town - South African comedian Joey Rasdien has apologised for comments that he made during his slot at the Ilm Arts Festival at the Sandton Convention Centre on Saturday.
He apologised in the form of a tweet wherein he expressed its intention to be satirical.
My apology following my set at the @ML_Fest on Saturday evening. pic.twitter.com/YsIB2gl4gS
— Yusuf Rasdien (@joeyrasdien) July 22, 2017
"There is this other brah. This is going to be a bit controversial. I love Islam but there are certain things that make me wonder. That brah that wrote 40 000 hadiths in two years. there are 365 days in a year which makes it 740 days in two years," he said at the festival.
The 'brah' that he referred to was one of the companions to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
“There’s 365 days in a year which makes it 740 days in two years which gives you 1440 minutes per day, plus you must sleep. How can you write forty thousand hadiths in two years?”
Shortly after that, he made remarks about women who were clearly offended by his comments.
He was then told to get off the stage by one of the audience.
The organisers have distanced themselves from the comedian and and have also apologised to those who were offended.
From the organizers #MarriageConference #mfest17 #IlmArtsFestival #SandtonConventionCentre #MuslimLifestyleFest pic.twitter.com/pw4gEVRD7L
— Muslim LifestyleFest (@ML_Fest) July 23, 2017 The festival aimed to put Islam in a good light and to showcase the religion's beauty by providing a platform for some of the worlds leading Islamic scholars, performers and artists to unite.