[america4vr]

Unfortunately for the West, virgins do make for a much more powerful motivator as reward for martyrdom.

Lucky for Hamas that the scriptures have been taken to be translated as "virgins" instead of the more precise meaning of "raisins". It would be a damn nearly impossible task convincing a disillusioned fifteen year old to blow himself up along with as many Jews as possible for the likes of seventy-two raisins.

[dayglored]

72 raisins

[johnny7]

There was this...

now there's THIS.

[ovrtaxt]

Yum Yum! Welcome to Paradise, sucka!

[Dan(9698)]

Unfortunately for the West, virgins do make for a much more powerful motivator as reward for martyrdom.

Those who find out that it is "raisins" will never tell even if they are disappointed.

[ApplegateRanch]

Unfortunately for the West, virgins do make for a much more powerful motivator as reward for martyrdom.

Especially since Christ told us (the Sadducees, anyway) that there is no giving or taking in marriage in Heaven.

Since he ALSO said that we would be 'as the angels are', I'm not sure how having virgins would be of any use.

[PapaBear3625]

Lucky for Hamas that the scriptures have been taken to be translated as "virgins" instead of the more precise meaning of "raisins".

As amusing as it might seem to think it was a mis-translation, every translation of the Qu'ran that I've seen talks about the reward in paradise similarly, For example: Quran 52:20, three translations by three authorative sources

052.020 YUSUFALI: They will recline (with ease) on Thrones (of dignity) arranged in ranks; and We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.

PICKTHAL: Reclining on ranged couches. And we wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.

SHAKIR: Reclining on thrones set in lines, and We will unite them to large-eyed beautiful ones.