{"id":288892,"date":"2017-01-06T14:56:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T13:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbc-sparks-outrage-after-airing-controversial-real-housewives-of-isis-skit\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T14:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T13:56:58","slug":"bbc-sparks-outrage-after-airing-controversial-real-housewives-of-isis-skit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/bbc-sparks-outrage-after-airing-controversial-real-housewives-of-isis-skit\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Sparks Outrage After Airing Controversial &#039;Real Housewives of ISIS&#039; Skit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The UK&#8217;s BBC has come under fire from viewers after airing a comedy skit titled &#8216;Real Housewives of ISIS&#8217; that featured women in hijabs modelling suicide vests and celebrating beheadings.<\/p>\n<p>The skit was part of <em>Revolting<\/em>, a new sketch comedy show from the team behind the BAFTA-winning satire <em>The Revolution Will Be Televised<\/em>, which aired on the publicly-funded BBC2.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MgP5wEXqq3g\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only three days till the beheading, and I&#8217;ve got no idea what I&#8217;m going to wear,&#8221; one character in the skit \u2013 a spoof of the never-ending <em>Real Housewives<\/em> series, which recently stretched to Melbourne and Sydney &#8211; says, while her friends Instagram photos of fashionable suicide vests using the hashtags &#8220;Death To The West&#8221; and &#8220;ISIS emojis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another scene depicts a woman chained to a kitchen stove by her husband.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbctwo\/videos\/1080140528761781\/\" target=\"_blank\">clip posted to BBC2&#8217;s Facebook yesterday<\/a> sparked over 50,000 comments, with many viewers labelling the skit as &#8220;insensitive&#8221; and &#8220;bad taste&#8221;, and questioning the BBC&#8217;s judgement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not funny at all. With everything going on in the world, I&#8217;m sure those who have been affected by ISIS or the relatives of those killed in terrorist attacks won&#8217;t be laughing,&#8221; one commenter wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are utterly abhorrent BBC. You are truly sick in the head and morally bankrupt,&#8221; added another.<\/p>\n<p>Others debated whether the satirical intent of the show&#8217;s writers might&#8217;ve missed its mark.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I enjoy decent satire like <em>Four Lions<\/em>, but this is a poor effort,&#8221; another commenter wrote. &#8220;Not only does it mock the very real&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/bbc-sparks-outrage-after-airing-controversial-real-housewives-of-isis-skit\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s BBC has come under fire from viewers after airing a comedy skit titled &#8216;Real Housewives of ISIS&#8217; that featured women in hijabs modelling suicide vests and celebrating beheadings. The skit was part of Revolting, a new sketch comedy show from the team behind the BAFTA-winning satire The Revolution Will Be Televised, which aired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}