Just when you thought the Middle East was getting normal...
Let me present
Susblood Labs, which is manufacturing a combination pen and capsule of preserved pig's blood, designed to reconstitute in the heat of a suicide bomb and defile the body of the bomber. Apparently this is meant to act as a deterrent to bombers, by keeping them out of heaven.
(I could talk about the basic physics and theology problems with this, but why bother? There's something delightfully mad about the whole thing.)
EDIT: But wait! There's more! From the Middle East Media Research Institute, a translation of a
fascinating contest showing up on some Islamist websites. Help design a website for a terror group, and get to fire missiles at American troops!
(You know, I really wish I were kidding. It could be that both of these things are bogus... but somehow, I doubt it. The first one, in particular, just seems so appropriate to the mindset that if it's satire, it's the most brilliant bloody satire I've seen in a while. The latter... well, all sorts of strange things show up on the public fora of terror groups. Most of them are nonsense. But such splendid nonsense! For that one, I think the best commentary came from
Dry Bones.)
