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It is a joke to show how religious extremists appear.
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Exactly. A SATIRE.
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Satire: 1. a literary work in which vices, follies, stupididies, abuses, etc, are held up to ridicule... Webster's New World Dictionary, 2nd College Edition
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This satire is especially effective at exemplifying the
irony when members of a supposedly peaceful and loving faith espouse violence for purposes of converting and/or punishing the previously unconvinced.