Not that there's anything wrong with that
Posted on 10/29/2014 7:58:01 PM PDT by Bettyprob
This is Iraq under a future Islamic state, as imagined in “State of Superstition,” a hit comedy on state-run Al Iraqiya TV. The half-hour show turns a deadly serious subject — the reign of terror imposed by the extremist group Islamic State in parts of Iraq and Syria — into fodder for spoof and satire.
The Beheader character is a comic takedown of Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph and Islamic State leader. An actor in a preposterously long and tangled fake beard — one of a couple of dozen fake beards glued on to characters each episode by an overworked makeup artist — plays him as a slogan-spewing buffoon.
The show takes enormous risks in the name of satire in a country where Islamic State has tortured and killed Iraqis and set off car bombs that have killed hundreds of people.
“Making a comedy about Islamic State is like trying to defuse a bomb,” said Thair Chiad, the show’s urbane writer and creator. “One mistake and you die.”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Yep, I think they should tend not to try to defuse a bomb with a blow torch.
The world is collapsing around them, their army is fleeing ISIS and they are watching TV? Not funny.
This is why I don’t give a damn about ISIS killing these f**king shites. Let these murderous sunnies kill these crazy shites. And vice versa! Supply both sides (and the Kurds).
I like it! Sort of like Monty Python meets Bollywood!
It shows me how isolated the general Iraqi public is from the real world. The Iraqi government makes a smart move in this. What the common folk don't know won't hurt them.
The government has all the money in the world. Basra, home of the "marsh" Arabs, is their access to the Persian/Arabian Gulf...and the rest of the petroleum-rich area.
The Iraqi people haven't a CLUE as to what the rest of the world sees, hears and knows. It's truly shuttered away in its own world. The Persians can afford to laugh in their bubble...as long as they remain clueless.
As opposed to Americans, who'd probably be tweeting during it.
Wow! They got Obama to play a role!
I think ridicule is one of the best weapons to use against the loons.
I agree - during WW1 and 2 part of the propaganda war was to make fun of the enemy - it sort of says they are not so big and scary that we will not make fun of them!
I know. We lived over there for five years.
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