Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Monday, May 18, 2015
Video - Syrian comedy troupe & filmmakers use humor to counter ISIL propaganda.
Video - Syrian comedy troupe and filmmakers use humor to counter ISIL propaganda.(AJ).
The six young filmmakers behind the sketch starring Hereh, known as the Daya Altaseh collective, have been producing videos, some satirical, some not, about the Syrian civil war since 2013.
Initially, their preferred target was Bashar al Assad, Syria’s president. Once in a while, they skewered the country's ineffective, fractured political opposition. “We go after everyone, including the free government,” said Daya Altaseh’s founder, Maen Watfe, 27, referring to the Syrian National Coalition, the country’s main dissident group. “We support them, but we also criticize them because we want them to be better.”
A few months ago, the activists began to turn most of their satirical firepower on ISIL. Their objective was twofold. To the outside world, said Watfe, they wanted to show that the armed group was not the true, or at least not the only, face of the war against Assad. To young Syrians, they wanted to convey the idea that the radicals were hypocrites and their agenda a perversion of Islam.
Comedy, a language that most Syrians speak fluently, was as as good a weapon against ISIL propaganda as any, they figured. “It affects people the most. It makes them stop being afraid of ISIL,” said Watfe. “Because we make them look silly.”
Attacking ISIL — even through comedy and even from the relative safety of Turkey — is a risky business.
According to police sources quoted in Turkish media, the group has about 3,000 members inside the country.
The young people running Daya Altaseh appear to be in the fighters’ crosshairs. Threats and insults have poured onto their Facebook page.
Earlier this year, said Watfe, the filmmakers decided to move out of their apartment in Gaziantep after “large, bearded men” interrogated their landlord about their work and whereabouts.
They happened to have been out of the house at the time. “If not, we’d probably be on a beach somewhere, wearing orange jumpsuits,” said Aya Brown, the lone woman in the group. Hmmm.....As they say 'We only need to fear, fear it self. Read the full story here.
Friday, April 17, 2015
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Friday, October 4, 2013
Obamacare Commemorative Stamp Collector Set released for the launch of Obamacare.
Obamacare Commemorative Stamp Collector Set released for the launch of Obamacare.HT: The PeoplesCube.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Al Qaeda offers to help look after Syria’s chemical weapons.
Al Qaeda offers to help look after Syria’s chemical weapons.HT: panarabiaenquirer.
DAMASCUS: Following moves by Russia to have Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons placed under international control, representatives for terror group al-Qaeda working inside Syria this afternoon offered their help in looking after the deadly arsenal.
“It’s the least we can do,” said Abu Omar of the Ahrar Dimashq Battalion, an al-Qaeda linked group that has been fighting alongside Syrian rebels against Assad’s government since 2011. “We’re all in this together; us, Russia, the USA, France, everyone. We really want to do our bit.”
Omar added that the rebel group were “perfectly placed” to help out. “Well, we’re already in Syria now,” he said. “And we know Obama’s issue with having boots on the ground, so we can just go and get the chemical weapons ourselves and save any foreign military or inspection team the expense or trouble. Honestly, we’re happy to help out our allies in the West.”
While there hasn’t yet been an official response, a source from the Kremlin said the offer was “very kind”.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Video - Clip re imagines Obama as Aladdin.
Video - Clip re imagines Obama as Aladdin.HT: TimesOfIsrael.Online parody rewrites Disney movie to celebrate and satirize US president’s impending visit to Israel.
The music sounds familiar, but the lyrics — a takeoff on Disney’s “Aladdin” — definitely don’t.
Hebrew speakers have been doing a double take since Wednesday as they’ve watched a new online clip inspired by the 1992 movie. The video, a parody tied to President Obama’s trip to Israel next week, rewrites the words to the song “Prince Ali.” Instead of featuring the arrival of Aladdin (disguised as the prince) at the Sultan’s palace, the scene now trumpets the visit by “President Barack” to Israel.
Creator Yuval Binder is so good at vocal imitation it’s impossible to tell exactly where he’s inserted his own voice over the original Hebrew dubbing, provided by legendary Israeli comic actor Tuvia Tzafir. For the big finale, the Genie talks tachlis, or gets to the bottom line, about why Obama is making his grand journey: “He’s mentioned that there’s some major chaos here, so that’s why he’s coming to the sh**ty Middle East. Welcome, President Barack!”Read the full story here.
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