Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Words Virgin Raisins

A German scholar contends that the Islamic text has been mistranscribed and promises raisins, not virgins
The Pakistanis, it appears, are passionately devoted to the idea that mass murderers will be rewarded in the afterlife with an eternal sex orgy, for the Newsweek article reports on a German linguist's view that the notion that "martyrs" receive 72 virgins is a mistranslation and they actually get 72 "white raisins."
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