ISIS kidnap prank pulled on Egyptian actress

(Those people should be taken out and shot.)

BY SUE SURKES June 10, 2016, 5:02 am

In a cruel and tasteless prank, an Egyptian actress and singer was forced to beg for her life by actors dressed as Islamic State terrorists, who “kidnapped” her and tried to drape a “suicide belt” over her shoulders.

Video footage aired this week shows the actress, Heba Magdi, trembling and in tears as the terrorists surround her. One of the actors, his face hidden by a balaclava, points an automatic weapon at her head and orders her to pose for pictures in front of an Islamic State flag.

Magdi is then seen trying to hide behind a chair as she hears shouts of “get the suicide belt!” She resists the terrorists’ attempts to seize the chair and drape the belt over her shoulders, and then cowers in horror as a “battle” breaks out behind beyond the door, and the Islamic State fighter gears up to fight back, pointing something that resembles a rocket-propelled grenade launcher at the door.

At the end of the video, the horror is revealed to be a prank, but the poor actress nonetheless appears to be deeply unsettled.

Heartless Egyptian celebrity pranks appear to be something of a Ramadan month tradition. Last year, in a sick Egyptian TV prank, a well-known Syrian singer was taken on a pleasure cruise off the Egyptian coast, and then arrested by purported Israeli naval forces, interrogated at gunpoint at an elaborately constructed faux Israeli army base, and led out for execution, with a gun put to his head.

A week earlier, in a similarly vile prank by a different Arabic TV station, an Egyptian actress named Lucy was persuaded that the small plane in which she was flying over Dubai had lost its engine and was crashing, and that she would die if she did not parachute out.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/is-kidnap-prank-pulled-on-egyptian-actress/