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Post by onionluke on Jan 6, 2017 17:42:50 GMT 7
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Post by AyG on Jan 6, 2017 18:25:00 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 18:25:12 GMT 7
I saw an article about this on news.com.au last night. I nearly cried reading it, it's ridiculous if you ask me.
What is the world coming to ? ( I said that in front of Jehovah's Witness in Byron Bay one day and he said - "Do you really want to know " ? )
Seems there are a lot of idiots around these days whose only claim to fame was to do something "controversial". Got news for them, just because it shocks or offends people does not make it art, or good entertainment.
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Post by AyG on Jan 6, 2017 18:46:58 GMT 7
Seems there are a lot of idiots around these days whose only claim to fame was to do something "controversial". Got news for them, just because it shocks or offends people does not make it art, or good entertainment. Are you writing about comedians, or ISIS members? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 19:07:38 GMT 7
Neither, actually. More the type of people who "create" these stupid programs, like The Real Housewives of ISIS etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 19:09:06 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 19:19:20 GMT 7
I think it's the kind of p**s-take that will resonate with young Muslim women - and it was sent to me by a young Muslim woman.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 19:45:20 GMT 7
Extract from the New York Times - ................................................. The criticism has provoked a counterbacklash, with the show’s sympathizers denouncing what they say is political correctness and arguing that freedom of expression — including pungent satire — is the best line of defense against extremism. The satire, they say, mines a rich tradition that includes Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 sendup of Hitler, “The Great Dictator.” “I like it. It’s making fun of ISIS which is a good thing,” Irfan Mansor, a man who identified himself as Muslim, wrote on the BBC Two Facebook page. “The whole point of satire is to bring people down to a level. If you can mock something, you’re not scared of it. ISIS want to be feared. Don’t give them that.” Several scholars of Islamist radicalism echoed that view, saying that comedy was a potent weapon because it denies the Islamic State the approval it so desperately craves. “We think nothing when the Ku Klux Klan or the Nazis are satirized, so why not ISIS?” asked Shiraz Maher, deputy director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London. “ISIS wants to be taken seriously as an actor and state, they want approbation, and comedy denies them that, and takes away their shine.” A BBC spokeswoman, Kate Toft, said the broadcaster was not commenting on the show “other than to say that it’s satire and the BBC has a rich history of satire.” ................................................. www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/europe/bbc-the-real-housewives-of-isis.html?ref=world&_r=0 |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 19:54:12 GMT 7
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 20:28:16 GMT 7
Yes, gorgeous -
They are as entitled as anyone to mock their "sisters," that volunteer for ISIS.
And anyone that has seen Spitting Image, for example, knows that the UK has a vicious taste for satire.
Long may it continue.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 20:40:48 GMT 7
They used to air it on Australian TV as well, very well done and very funny.  |
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