Posted on 10/28/2002 5:33:31 PM PST by Notforprophet
Respected Imam Saheb, Assalam Alaikum, Last week, as I was getting ready for work, Lisa Meyer (a writer for Time Magazine) was on CNN on a segment called INSIDE THE MIND OF A SUICIDE BOMBER.
She was asked "What makes Palestinians blow themselves up inside Israel?" She replied with a couple of statements, out of which one was that "They are promised to be married to 72 virgins in heaven."
When the surprised CNN anchor-person asked "72 virgins? Why not 71?", Ms. Meyer replied, "Ask Mohammad, I do not know."
Please explain if this has anything to do with Islam?
To the best of our knowledge, the practise of the Palestinians - suicide bombings is in the course of a liberation struggle against the oppressive Zionist regime. It is not practised to earn paradise and its bounties as that is certainly a given for every Muslim -Palestinian and non-Palestinians. That may be examined by posing the following question to Lisa Meyer; "What can stop the suicide bombing?" The answer would certainly be:
If the rights of the oppressed Palestinians are fulfilled. Surely, then no Palestinian would be merely covetous of the 72 virgins by blowing himself up. "Female" Lisa Meyer would have no reason to penetrate into the broken "non-virgin" male minds of the oppressed to search for any perceived virginity there, to be raped and abused by Lisa Meyer's dominating journalistic skills. She should certainly ask Mohammed (Hadith) from the outset if she did not know. Her response was indeed premature and pre-virgin.
and Allah Ta'ala Knows Best
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
FATWA DEPT.
And, get this... pre-virgin. What the heck is that?
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