Maybe because 20 years have passed.

It was hilarious at the time, and yes, you have to remember that this was at a time when the libs were totally scared of muslims to the point where you had the whole mohammed cartoon controversy. So a blog which aggressively and openly mocked the jihadis and their god was extremely irreverent and hilarious.

He also made heavy use of memes, which was pretty new in the early 2000s.