Friday, September 01, 2006

Jihad Cola

Whatever the figures, there is broad agreement that Islam’s growth in Britain is possibly the fastest anywhere in the western world with all the attendant headaches for racial profiling and airline passenger stereotyping. American writer Robert Ferrigno, whose newest bestseller ‘Prayers for the Assassin’ imagines an Islamic United States in 2036, complete with Jihad Cola as the number one drink, says "mass conversions may involve relatively few ‘true’ spiritual conversions. Most believers go along to get along". But he insists that his novel makes “an imaginative, not statistical leap, positing a future where spiritually-bereft Westerners, their society rent by economic and social decay, were drawn to the spiritual certainty of a fundamentalist faith like Islam".

How 'bout Sharia IPA? Would JJ fall for it? Maybe if it's really hoppy, and with a tinge of ouzo in it?

1 comment:

My Frontier Thesis said...

AI, here's another interesting story about drinking Jihad Cola at gunpoint — c'mon, all the cool kids are doing it!

A professor of mine made another interesting point (indirectly) about the intolerance of Islam vs. the 10 Commandments/Torah.

The Quran says in order to become Muslim, one must testify that there is no god but Allah whereas the first commandment says "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." The latter suggests that there are still sub-dieties floating around out there, but they are to be ignored; the former is quite absolute.