One of the movies my wife and I love best from the 1980s is “Jewel of the Nile”. Featuring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, it was a low-budget answer to the first two Indiana Jones movies. The plot consisted of Jack (Douglas) seeking the Jewel of the Nile for riches, and Joan Wilder (Turner) knowing the truth that the “Jewel” was actually a holy man who was a threat to the would-be dictator of the fictional African country where the plot is carried out. The Jewel as depicted in the movie appears at the right.

Now it’s 25 years later, and Fox News is reporting American-Born Cleric Added to Capture-or-Kill List, Called ‘Terrorist No. 1′. It seems that the Jewel has transferred to a different “religion of peace”, Islam. Furthermore, he seems not to have aged a single day, check out the picture to the left.

Frankly, I’m saddened that someone whom I had such respect for 25 years ago has left his personal “religion of peace” for the “religion of pieces”. Kinda devastating, you know? But if these two aren’t the same individual, and the same joke, then I just can’t believe it.

TD