'Next year, we'll have Saddam', he joked bitterly, referring to the dictator who terrorised Iraqis from 1979 to 2003, Saddam Hussein. 'This isn't entertainment,' Bilal al-Mosuli, a resident of Mosul, the self-proclaimed 'capital' of IS in Iraq from 2014 to 2017, wrote on Twitter.Īnother Iraqi, Ahmed Abderradi, expressed disbelief at the show on Facebook. Pictured: the family's home the celebrities believe they are visiting before it is stormed by jihadis The programme also broadcasts mock executions and shootings 'with blanks', according to a disclaimer at the start. And it's causing a scandal in Iraq, along with accusations of bad taste. What looks like a close shave is, in fact, a candid camera-style television show airing during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that takes tricking celebrities for laughs to a new level. In another episode, Iraq international footballer Alaa Mhawi, who has played 44 times for his country, was blind-folded and filmed begging for his life.
In one show, comic actress Nessma passed out with fear after being fitted with a fake suicide vest and was only brought round when the presenter poured water on her face. In the prank show Tanneb Rislan, terrified celebrities are taken to visit Iraqi families who they believe have been displaced after fleeing from extremists.īut once there, the duped participants are ambushed by fake jihadists and told they will be killed - until 'troops' come to the rescue and bring their ordeal to an end.
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A TV show has sparked outrage in Iraq after featuring fake ISIS fighters who 'kidnap' celebrities, strap fake suicide vests to them and tell them they will be executed.
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