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scooby,s hot weblog Evryone has the right to my opinion!
Wednesday, 26 May 2004
A German scholar contends that the Islamic text has been mis transcribedand promises raisins, not virgins
In a note of encouragement to his fellow hijackers, September 11 ringleader Muhammad Atta cheered their impending "marriage in Paradise "to the 72 wide-eyed virgins the Qur'an promises to the departed faithful. Palestinian newspapers have been known to describe the death of a suicide bomber as a "wedding to the black-eyed in eternal Paradise." But if a German expert on Middle Eastern languages is correct, these hopes of sexual rewarding the afterlife are based on a terrible misunderstanding.

Such interpretations will undoubtedly draw the ire of many Muslims --and not just extremists. After all, revisionist scholars have been persecuted for much less; in 2001, Egypt's Constitutional Court confirmed the "apostasy" of former University of Cairo scholar Nasr Hamid Abu-Zayd, for considering the Qur'an a document written by humans.

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