This Week's Evil Islam Thread

[gaelic cowboy]

Good points.

Better to err on the safe side and turn religious. I've got it all worked out: I'll convert to Islam right before I die, to get my 72 virgins. But first, I'm going to repent for my sins right now, make confession, and become a Catholic priest. So I can have my 72 virgins in this life too.



All kidding aside, with schools like this it's no wonder Europe keeps breeding homegrown terrorists. As coincidence would have it, right now as we speak, a massive coordinated police operation is happening in Belgium:
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But I dont like raisins can I change it to potatoes instead.

Scholars have long pointed out that these images are clearly drawn pictures and must have been inspired by the art of painting. Muhammad, or whoever is responsible for the descriptions, may well have seen Christian miniatures or mosaics representing the gardens of paradise and has interpreted the figures of angels rather literally as those of young men and young women. A further textual influence on the imagery found in the Koran is the work of Ephrem the Syrian [306-373 CE], Hymns on Paradise, written in Syriac, an Aramaic dialect and the language of Eastern Christianity, and a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew and Arabic.

Luxenberg tries to show that many obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic. We cannot go into the technical details of his methodology but it allows Luxenberg, to the probable horror of all Muslim males dreaming of sexual bliss in the Muslim hereafter, to conjure away the wide-eyed houris promised to the faithful in suras XLIV.54; LII.20, LV.72, and LVI.22. Luxenberg 's new analysis, leaning on the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian, yields "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" rather than doe-eyed, and ever willing virgins - the houris. Luxenberg claims that the context makes it clear that it is food and drink that is being offerred, and not unsullied maidens or houris.