NO JOKE - TRUE STORY

In Germany at the end of a class and beginning of the big summer vacation German kids do often get exercises for homework and training.

This is an excerpt from a collection of vacation maths exercises - for kids leaving the elementary school to attend the grammar school in the following year.

MUSTAFA IS THE HEAD OF A ROBBER BAND WITH  40 MEMBERS

(here we go.  OK, there is a German tale called Ali Baba and his 40 robbers, They could have well used the name Ali Baba, but they used MUSTAFA. !!! and we truely understand that using a common word starting with "t" would have been much too obvious... )

AMONG THEM 32 DO WEAR A BEARD, AND 30 DO WEAR A TURBAN.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE MIGHT BE ROBBERS WITHOUT A BEARD OR A TURBAN?

Obviously the subconcious mind programming works in either one or the other way, as one of the kids who had to do this excercise was attending an airport 1 week later, to pick up somebody who arrived from Toronto, and in the aircraft were a lot of people from India. There was one among with a beard and a turban, and the kid  commented that this one was a guy from "the maths exercise".

The good news is that this kid does know the background and was just "kidding around", but there might be numerous who would sell the picture of the modern robber called Mustafa  (well, they might have called him "Moshe" .... oh, sorry. Certainly not.)