Having
arrived at the Gates of Heaven, Barack Obama meets a man with a
beard. 'Are you Mohammed?' he asks. 'No my son, I am St. Peter;
Mohammed is higher up.' Peter then points to a ladder that rises into
the clouds.
Delighted
that Mohammed should be higher than St. Peter, Obama climbs the ladder
in great strides, climbs up through the clouds and comes into a room
where he meets another bearded man. He asks again, 'Are you Mohammed?'
'Why no,' he answers, ‘I am Moses; Mohammed is higher still.'
Exhausted,
but with a heart full of joy he climbs the ladder yet again, he
discovers a larger room where he meets an angelic looking man with a
beard. Full of hope, he asks again, 'Are you Mohammed?' 'No, I am
Jesus, the Christ; you will find Mohammed higher up.'
Mohammed
higher than Jesus! Man, oh man! Obama can hardly contain his delight
and climbs and climbs ever higher. Once again, he reaches an even
larger room where he meets this truly magnificent looking man with a
silver white beard and once again repeats his question: 'Are you
Mohammed?' he gasps as he is by now, totally out of breath from all his
climbing. 'No, my son, I am Almighty God, the Alpha and the Omega,
but you look exhausted. Would you like a cup of coffee?'
Obama says, ‘yes please!' As God looks behind him, he claps his hands and yells out: 'Hey, Mohammed, two coffees!'
