Having a Pat Robertson moment (or, more likely, a Pat Robertson life), one of the many irredeemable lunatics that passes for religious leaders in the Middle East claims that bird flu discovered in Israel is a sign of Allah's wrath. He also "...asked for congregants to 'pray for Allah to dry out the sexual organs of the Jews with a disease so they won't be able to reproduce anymore.'" Can't you just feel the love emanating from the Religion of Peace?

As the article dryly notes, though:

Muhammed made his comments in spite of predictions the virus found in Israel may surface through migrating fowl in the nearby Palestinian territories.

The article also mentions cases appearing in Egypt. What did they do to piss off Allah? Turkey I can understand, what with their satanic secular state and all, but Egypt? What with all of the disasters going on all over the place, it's apparently pretty hard to stay on his good side, even if you're a Muslim. Maybe even especially if you're a Muslim, judging by (for instance) the tsunami last year. If what the moderate Muslims say about their religion is true, I'd be more a little convinced if Allah would start smiting all these false prophets.

I'm just waiting for the next earthquake in Iran (the geology is such that it seems inevitable) to see who they blame *that* on...

Well, I for one think that we should build a giant battlemech called, Jesus. And they should build a giant mech called , Mohammed. Then, let them blow each other to smithereens with Jesus shooting his Holy Cross Pentecostal Particle cannnon against The Prophet's Ululating Subsonic Discombobulator Ray. The winner gets to keep all the oil and smack the losers over the head with their shoes. And the losers get to sit back and literally say, "It was all fault".

Stupid stupid tags: "And the losers get to sit back and literally say, "It was all Jesus's/Muhammed's fault".