Al Qaeda to go on strike
   Muslim suicide bombers in Britain are set to begin a  three-day strike next  Monday in a dispute over the number of virgins they are entitled to  in the afterlife. Emergency talks with Al Qaeda have so far failed to produce an  agreement.
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 36. 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 Organization 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 Abdullah 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 sympathize 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 , Middlesbrough, Essex,  Glasgow and 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 on going to  paradise.