Can an army of bloodthirsty theocrats survive a
brutal ribbing? Well…yes. And a new supply of
Chinese ground-to-air missiles gained courtesy of Qatar isn’t
exactly going to make ISIS hemhorrage too terribly under assault
from even the most rapier-like wit. But political comedian Dean
Obeidallah
points out at The Daily Beast that the terrorist
group/fundamentalist state has become a popular target of
entertainers across the Middle East. Says he, “they mock ISIS on
everything from being hypocrites when it comes to Islam to being
bumbling idiots to simply smelling like crap.”
He writes that one of the funnier videos he’s seen translated
into English is a Palestinian-produced take (embedded below) on an
ISIS checkpoint manned by the Three Stooges of homicidal
fanaticism. Belly-tickling-wise, it’s probably better than some of
the material that Saturday Night Live has inflicted on its
audience. It ends with an off-tune dig to the effect that ISIS is
more interested in terrorizing Arabs than in tormenting
Israelis.
Which, again, is better than some of the material that Saturday
Night Live has inflicted on its audience.
Whatever their quality, the comedic attacks, Obeidallah
emphasizes, are a means for people across the region to defy ISIS.
For comics in Syria and Iraq, that defiance potentially risks
serious consequences, since entertainers face death for poking fun
at the group.
Read the whole piece
here.
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