Wednesday, March 22, 2006

A free ticket to paradise

Turkmenistan's dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, who wrote his own little red book Rukhnama, told his people that reading the damn thing three times will make reader more intelligent, make him recognize the divine being, and send him to paradise.

Inquiring minds would like to know whether the transfer to paradise will be immediate upon the third completion of the reading.

In any case this is a refreshing change from the traditional approach of dictators. Usually an immediate meeting with the divine being is promised to those who refuse to read the dictator's book.

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