A comedy series on BBC 2 is being slammed by some very unhappy people.
A sketch on the BBC 2 comedy show, Revolting is getting people on social media very very angry. Why? Well, the sketch is called The Real Housewives of ISIS – so you can probably work it out from there.
The clip, which is doing the rounds on Twitter pokes fun at the ‘ISIS housewives’ who are seen wearing and comparing suicide vests, complaining about having to compete with 40 virgins and using social media hashtags like #DeathToTheWest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOB6UDC-67w
The series has seen a massive backlash on social with many slamming the makers of making light of ISIS
https://twitter.com/UncleMeraj/status/816672501833101312
The BBC's The Real Housewives of ISIS is awful. People are getting butchered, raped, enslaved are entitled to more respect. #MoralCompass
— Fuad Alakbarov (@DrAlakbarov) January 4, 2017
https://twitter.com/n_elhuda/status/816695986055741445
https://twitter.com/Its_Rahmat/status/816689050211991554
The series was created by comedy duo Heydon Prowse and Jolyon Rubinstein who reacted to the criticism by writing,
“It’s important not to pull your punches in satire. You have to be fearless or it undermines your credibility.
“You can’t go after David Cameron for five years like we did and not go after Islamic State.”
Jolyon Rubinstein added,
“It’s about people who are vulnerable to these kind of approaches. We’ve had the “White Widow”, so this is actually happening to women here.”
The BBC declined to comment to both The Telegraph and Digital Spy.
Revolting is on Tuesdays at 10PM.
