Southern Magazine Editor Ponders Bin Ladens Flat Tax Proposal
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Press Releases Metro Magazine Press Release Receive press releases from Metro Magazine: By Email RSS Feeds: Southern Magazine Editor Ponders Bin Ladens Flat Tax Proposal Raleigh, NC, September 18, 2007 --( Reeves, who writes the My Usual Charming Self column in the monthly Raleigh Metro Magazine, noticed Bin Laden’s offer in the first of the terrorist leader’s two recent videotaped messages directed at the US market.“I suppose the only answer is for each state to hold a referendum on whether to be Sunni, Sh’ite, Druse or a more narrowly defined sect, and establish a central mosque in capital cities where our new ayatollahs can meet and pray over how to spend the zakat,” he writes.Other “passing nuisances” Reeves foresees to accept Bin Laden’s proposal involve curtailment of freedom of speech, denigrating the status and attire of women, changes in the legal code to allow for Koranic dictates – such as amputation of hands and fingers for thievery, the prohibition of alcohol and emptying museums of all images of the human form.### Raleigh, NC, September 18, 2007 --( PR.com )-- Editor and publisher Bernie Reeves offers an opinion of the ins and outs of Osama Bin Laden’s recent pitch to Americans to join international Islam to avoid high taxation at (http://www.metronc.com).Reeves, who writes the My Usual Charming Self column in the monthly Raleigh Metro Magazine, noticed Bin Laden’s offer in the first of the terrorist leader’s two recent videotaped messages directed at the US market.Reeves responded in Between Issues, his online-only column published on the magazine’s web site, www.metronc.com.“I suppose the only answer is for each state to hold a referendum on whether to be Sunni, Sh’ite, Druse or a more narrowly defined sect, and establish a central mosque in capital cities where our new ayatollahs can meet and pray over how to spend the zakat,” he writes.Other “passing nuisances” Reeves foresees to accept Bin Laden’s proposal involve curtailment of freedom of speech, denigrating the status and attire of women, changes in the legal code to allow for Koranic dictates – such as amputation of hands and fingers for thievery, the prohibition of alcohol and emptying museums of all images of the human form.“All in all, a small price to pay for lower taxes,” he concludes.Reeves’ entire satirical column, entitled “Bin Laden’s Flat Tax Appealing,” is available at http://www.metronc.com.### Contact Information Metro Magazine Kim Weiss 919-831-0999 www.metronc.com blueplate pr 919-272-8615 Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from Metro Magazine