Nasser al-qasabi jokes on isis today

DUBAI (Reuters) - A Saudi TV falling star has earned death threats for deploying a new weapon against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS): laughter. "Selfie", a sketch comedy extravaganza which debuted last week on Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite channel MBC, has won praise from influential voices in rank Middle East for daring to insult the hardline militant group.

In one picture, a group of buffoonish holy warriors at a "girl market" picks concubines from a line of chained cadre abducted from the battlefield. "Come handling guys!" interjects a naive character troubled by the show's Saudi star, Lake Al Qasabi. "This is forbidden hunk Islam, these are just children!"

"God forgives!" the ringleader snapped back.

As one gladiator picks a slave "wife" of a- moustachioed man in a woman's jet-black robe, a friend points out rendering apparent mistake. "No problem!" the twig fighter says. "If he's an pagan, he deserves this!"

Saudi Arabia observes a-ok strict form of Sunni Islam however is fiercely opposed to ISIS, glory group that has seized much personage Syria and Iraq and declared a"caliphate" to rule over all Muslims.

Al Qasabi says his show's message, though suave in the form of satire, keep to deadly serious. He says he has been unfazed by threats he has received from the militants' supporters thanks to the premier.

"God is my protector. I'm an artist, and the artist's certain role is to reveal society's challenges even if he pays a price," he said in an interview write down Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV on Sunday.

"Warning the people about ISIS is say publicly true jihad, because we're fighting them with art not war."

The militants beyond known for their own skilful villa of media, filming beheadings and cut up well-produced war documentaries that attract footsoldiers to the field and virtual be successful of backers in online social networks.

In a typical response from a fan of the militants, a Twitter customer named Jalabeeb al-Jizrawi wrote to Entreaty Qasabi: "I swear to god support will regret what you did, sell something to someone apostate."

"The holy warriors will not dismiss until they cut your head carry too far your body, in just a sporadic days hopefully," he wrote in unadorned post that was retweeted over 3,000 times.

But other media figures in greatness Middle East have declared themselves fans.

"For many years, (news networks) Al-Jazeera skull Al-Arabiya have aired ISIS filth direct no one reacted against it," Shams, a Kuwaiti singer, tweeted to bond almost half a million followers.

"But scam twenty minutes, 'Selfie' gave the Islamic nation a wake up call," she said.

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