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WATCHING a home-grown terrorist dressed as a ninja turtle blow himself to pieces after choking on a peanut in controversial film Four Lions, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The comedy from misanthrope comedian Chris Morris sets out to satirise Islamic terrorism in the UK.

Despite ruffling a few feathers – quite literally in one scene featuring a suicide bomber crow – it is, undeniably, a frequently hilarious and sharply scripted film.

Following a group a bungling, idiot Jihadists from Sheffield, it's Dad's Army meets The League Of Gentlemen.

But with the threat of terrorism still very real and the July 7 attacks in London fresh in people's minds, is it too soon to be making light of such a sensitive subject?

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True, it doesn't exactly paint a flattering picture of the terrorists – depicting them as incompetent morons – and other comics such as Sacha Baron Cohen have exposed the gullible and prejudiced to equally brilliant effect, but Morris has pushed the envelope of good taste so far open, Bin Laden himself could crawl in the resulting dark void and get lost.

But what sets Baron Cohen apart from Morris is that his comedy only really offends the detestable, while Four Lions is likely to upset the vulnerable and scarred victims of terrorism the most and not the perpetrators of the crime.

It also begs the question whether any subject is still too taboo to squeeze a laugh out of? Morris already managed to cause uproar when he tried a gag about paedophilia.

So what next, necrophilia involving the victims of 9/11? Watch this space.

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What do you think? Will you be going to see Four Lions? Should some subjects be off limits for comedy? Where is the line between satire and bad taste? Add your comments below.

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