Extremists Attack Internet

Religious extremists in the Middle East have condemned the internet in uncompromising terms, claiming that it is leading the faithful astray.

"To our dismay, computers with all sorts of abominations have been found in the unsupervised flats, may God protect us," said a dismayed wall poster condemning internet use by seminary students.

The internet, with its freedom of information and wide variety of opinions, is seen as a major threat in the more extremist spider-holes of the Middle East, as well as in the Murdoch family.

"We consider it to be very dangerous," said one "educator" who serves on a committee to enforce religious observance. "It is something that is liable to cast down a lot of casualties."

Others have condemned the internet as an "epidemic" which "must be stopped", and as an "instrument of impurity" which will result in children being excluded from education.

Fortunately, the religious extremists in question do not follow the extreme sort of religion which would normally blow people up or wipe countries off a map; which may explain the absence of their apoplectic apophthegms from today's front pages in the tabloids.