Are they stupid, making a demand they know will never be met, or do they have a sense of humor?
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/11/16/alqaeda.threat.ap/index.html
A little from column A and a little from column B.
Bombast and manufactured outrage are fairly conventional propaganda weapons. I’d ignore the statement, as we really don’t need any further evidence that these nuts need some serious killing.
I wasn’t planning on buying a Koran.
*Hides in the buker with the sensible dudes.
Before the army of
“but but but but but but but they’re not muslims, islam doesn’t believe in murder”
“Have you ever read the koran”
“…no”
Sense of humor?
[ul]That’s funny![/ul]
If they weren’t so fucking crazy it would be funny, in a sort of Onion kind of way. “Fringe Muslim Group Demands Entire Western World Covert to Islam, or Face the Sword!”
OK, I’ll convert to Islam ONLY as long as I get to one of the Muslim Clerics we’re always hearing about. Those guys seem to have all the power. Or maybe I could be an Imam?
Yeah, that’s it - Imam TVGuy, all bow down before me and face east so I know which way to point my DirecTV dish.
I have no intention of cnverting to any religion anytime soon, and if they think a death threat is going to change my mind, they are sadly, severly mistaken. Death is an end, that’s all.
Al-Qaida, Jemaat Islamiyah, Get Lost!!
I admit, it would be so much simpler if all of Islam did buy this line. All of Islam would rise up to with ‘convert of die’ on the lips, the west would exterminate Islam completely, we’d have all the oil.
Inconveniently, there continue to be sensible, thoughtful people on both sides of the issue.
Dang.
Everyone I’ve told about this “demand” today has busted out laughing at the notion we’d do anything of the sort.
Heck, even if we did convert they’d just come up with another reason to hate us.
We should say yes just in case it would make their heads explode.
Only if I get the 72 virgins, now, and not in the afterlife. (I’m willing to compromise a bit, though. They don’t have to be virgins, and there doesn’t have to be 72 of them. One will do quite nicely, thank you, but I’ll certainly not turn my nose up at more.)
A lot of Americans do convert to Islam.
And some of us convert to Judaism.
72?
Really?
Careful, buddy.
I hear they recycle them.
Maybe. Of course, as I said, I’m not that picky. It doesn’t have to be 72 of them, and really, it’d be better if they weren’t virgins, anyway. (Besides, do you know how hard it’d be to find virgins over the age of 18 these days?)
Yeah, I mean we wouldn’t want to do anything illegal.
Well, hey, if they can find the willing volunteers, then I’d be a fool not to take them up on the offer! (Surely there must be a Muslim college for blind and deaf women where they could find recruits. 
) You know that there was a Christian church that had great luck with their missionary program involving prostitutes? (They’d do ya for Jesus!) I think their name was Children of God, but I can’t remember, and they had pretty good luck winning new converts until the authorities cracked down on them.
Actually, it would probably just piss them off more, because it’s now a “Mulism” nation that is supporting Isreal and so very interested in their oil.
Unless they are under the impression that the religion or even lack of such has much of anything to do with foreign policy decisions.