BJM - Nicely done. In this case, "getting stoned" isn't a good idea! ;D

Remember the book "The Lottery"? 555 stones...

OMR: LOL! I worried that I was risking a punishment like stoning (that's for women) or beheading.
MS: Sorry, I haven't read it. Please elaborate on your stoning allusion.

Just saw that video going around the internet of a girl being stomped and stoned to death for refusing to marry the man her father chose for her. Are not Muslims allowed to have more than one wife?

Since you gave me a pass on screwing up quadratic equiations, I'll give you one for omitting the *very* significant opening:

Maria
The most beautiful sound I ever heard ... etc.

555 - there, we're even. :) :) :) Done it six times, always including that - it sets the mood, the tone, and the context in the OS, and can/should do that in the parody as well. No need to read all or any of them, but here's a sample to show that it works even on a much more trivial subject:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/westsidestorybernsteinsondheim2.shtml

No obligation to read that one, either, of course, Otherwise, great job.

TT: Thanks for the pass. I knew of the intro (and your work), but it didn't fit the duet form. Besides, the first line is repeated at the end. BTW, BHO secretly may want Shariah because 1st Lady MRO is too hard to control.

Wonderful job, Barry. Except that now, I'm sure I'll never hear that song again without thinking of this version.

Patrick: Multiple wives are allowed, as young as 9 I think, often arranged by parents. A man can divorce one just by saying so, but no wife can initiate divorce.

DM: That's a real compliment, but I'm sorry if I spoiled TOS for you after 54 years.

TT: After some reflection, I came up with this opening:
Utmost duty is found in Islam's cause;
Allah's beauty resounds when the world has one set of laws . . .

Thanks for proving what I've always said: that you can make *anything* work, if you really want to. Said it here, and there's a plug in there for you, which you missed:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/bonnietyler44.shtml

*Very* nicely done. Would have added greatly to the already-good song -- and all it took was a little extra reflection. :) :) :)

(For future reference, this rater tends to cut noobs and average writers a little slack, but the better the writer, the higher the expectations. So take it as a compliment that the Barry-Bar is quite high, if that matters at all.. :-D )

BJM (Barry) - The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a VERY disturbing short story about rural America where the villagers participate in a timeless ritual human sacrifice by stoning. But as Bob Dylan sang, "Everybody must get stoned!". ;D