This Is How People In The Middle East Are Making Fun Of ISIS

[LiberalArkie]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/29/humor-isis_n_5737500.html

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As militants of the Islamic State group continue their brutal offensive in Syria and Iraq, some have taken to a whole different front line to attack the radicals: social media.

In recent weeks, dozens of humorous campaigns ridiculing the extremist militants have emerged on Twitter and Facebook. While some blast such humor as insensitive and inappropriate, others defend satire as a way to push back at the Islamic State's intimidation tactics.

"Sometimes, you have to mock, to belittle. Because sometimes, belittlement is your enemy's greatest fear," Libyan-American writer Hend Amry wrote on Twitter.


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Meanwhile, Palestinian satire TV show Watan ala Watar produced a segment in June mocking the Islamic State fighters as ridiculous hypocrites. The clip also takes aim at the group's regional politics, suggesting they are harming the whole region except for Israel.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/29/humor-isis_n_5737500.html

[LiberalArkie]

1. I thought "harming the whole region except Israel" interesting

[Purveyor]

2. Interesting indeed. Thank you for posting. +1 eom

[DinahMoeHum]

3. "Terror is the absence of humor. . .humor is the absence of terror. . ."

- Richard Myrle Buckley, better known as "Lord Richard Buckley"


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckley

[hifiguy]

4. Open mockery has always been

a great weapon against tyrannical extremism.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Especially the extremely mysoginistic ones...

some "men" cannot stand to be laughed at.

[NBachers]

5. Humor is the most subversive tactic of all

[DetlefK]

6. If there's one thing bullies don't like, then it's being made fun of:

In my class, there was a boy. He was destined to become a professional "bro" one day, a douche. He was athletic and good-looking and he knew that. While our class was standing outside of a building, waiting for something, he started bullying me (I don't remember what exactly he did). I remembered how I had been laughed at when an insect had been crawling through my hair without me realizing it, so I started staring at his hair and giggling while he tried to harrass me. He didn't like it a bit, he demanded to know what I'm laughing about, he got really nervous and finally pretty-boy retreated to check what I was laughing about. He never bullied me again.

[KoKo]

8. Good Stuff! Thanks for posting this!

[Fred Sanders]

9. Make your jihadi buddies feel special....

Dress for success fashion tips for the Caliphate....from Iran...hilarious.

[raven mad]

10. Humor can destroy evil!

Thank you for a little light on a dark subject.

[Danascot]

11. Someone still reads Huff Po?

I only go there when I want to feel like I'm wading in molasses, which is never. It's so slow it's unusable. The article is from July which probably explains why it just finished loading.