lack of Virgins is most upsetting.     
  
The unrest began last Tuesday when Al Qaeda announced that the number 
	of virgins a suicide bomber would receive after his death will be cut 
	this April from 72 to only 40. The rationale for the cut was the 
	increase in recent years of the number of suicide bombings and a 
	subsequent shortage of virgins in the afterlife. 
  
	The suicide bombers' union, the British Organisation of Occupational 
	Martyrs (or B.O.O.M.) responded with a statement that this was 
	unacceptable to its members, and immediately balloted for strike 
	action. General Secretary Abdulla Bul Bul Amir told the press, "Our 
	members are literally working themselves to death in the cause of 
	Jihad. We don't ask for much in return, but to be treated like this is 
	like a kick in the teeth". 
  
	Speaking from his shed in Tipton in the West Midlands, England in 
	which he currently resides, an Al Qaeda chief executive explained, "We 
	sympathise with our workers' concerns, but Al Qaeda is simply not in a 
	position to meet their demands. They are simply not accepting the 
	realities of modern-day Jihad in a competitive marketplace.. Thanks to 
	Western depravity, there is now a chronic shortage of virgins in the 
	afterlife. It's a straight choice between reducing expenditure and 
	laying people off. I don't like cutting wages, but I'd hate to have to 
	tell 3,000 of my staff that they won't be able to blow themselves up". 
  
	Spokesmen for the union in Newcastle, Bradford, Middlesbrough, Glasgow 
	and all Australia stated that they would be unaffected as there are no 
	virgins in these areas anyway. 
  
	Apparently, the drop in the number of suicide bombings has been 
	largely put down to the emergence of the Scottish singing star, Susan 
	Boyle. Now that Muslims know what a virgin looks like, they are not so 
	keen now on going to paradise.