[ErnBatavia]

By reading the newspapers, you’d think nobody ever died of natural causes over there...nobody.

[bygolly]

Or another way of putting it, dying by the hand of a Sunni or Shiite is the natural cause of death in Muslim lands.

Forgive me if I forgot any other Muslim sects.

[Allegra]

By reading the newspapers, you’d think nobody ever died of natural causes over there...nobody.

Actually, the Iraqis joke that they don't die of natural causes. They usually follow this comment with BOOM and machine gun noises. They've got the gallows humor down pretty pat. ;-)