Israeli gay party promoter criticised for Isis parody

[pampango]

One of the promotional images for Drekistan at the Haoman.

Drek, a company that organises some of Tel Aviv’s more popular gay party events, is in hot water after putting together promotional images of extremely questionable taste for a club night last Friday called Drekistan at the Haoman.

One image, very clearly referencing the horrific videos released recently by Isis in which American and British captives are beheaded, shows a muscled man in a black off-the-shoulder tunic standing in a desert with his hand on the neck of a kneeling man wrapped in an orange garment, the same colour as the jumpsuits worn by Isis victims. Another picture shows a muscled man clad only in some very brief trunks holding a black flag, reminiscent of the Isis emblem.

The Israeli news website Ynet, which reprinted the photos, said the imagery had provoked an angry reaction on Drek’s Facebook page. “Disgusting! Getting a laugh off of the murder of innocent victims,” wrote one.

On its Facebook page, Drek wrote that after Isis’s rise in the region, “we at Drek have decided to give in to sharia law and cheer the stubborn Daesh”, using the Arab acronym for the group. The use of “stubborn” was a play on words in Hebrew connected to beheading, Ynet said, as it can be written as “hard-necked”.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/22/israel-gay-party-promoter-isis-parody

[leftynyc]

1. Ugh

That's vomit inducing bad taste.

[snagglepuss]

2. I think it is very effective satire. I think ISIS assholes heads are exploding seeing this.

The ISIS assholes believe they fulfilling a religious mission and that deluded bullshit needs to be exposed for what it is. Their whole fucked up ideology is neurotic hyper-masculinity run amock.