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Did anyone hear Glen Beck this morning when he ‘interviewed Allah’? I certainly can’t do it justice but maybe someone knows where it’s archived or taped or something but one part (really paraphrased) that was great was when he asked Allah: Beck: So what’s up with this 72 virgins thing? Allah: (Nasty laugh). Oh, that’s a rumor I started. Beck: So it’s not true? Allah: Right. Like I’d make 72 perfectly nice girls spend eternity servicing some schlub who goes around killing innocent people. Beck: So why’d you start the rumor? Allah: That way when somebody comes to heaven and...

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder: One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see." And I saw. And behold, a white horse. There's a man goin' 'round takin' names. An' he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the man comes around. The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around....

According to author Christoph Luxenberg, due to a possible mistranslation of the Koran (if one were to read certain words as Syriac instead of Arabic), the "virgins" some terrorists believe they will be rewarded with in paradise may be "white raisins" of "crystal clarity" instead.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - American troops killed hundreds of insurgents in and around Baghdad in fighting over the past week, but have more work to do to fully secure the city and roads to the south and west that are vital for U.S. supply transport, a top U.S. military official said Monday. In the heaviest battles seen in the capital since the fall of Saddam Hussein a year ago, U.S. troops battled Sunni insurgents on the western edge of Baghdad - at one point for nearly 72 hours straight - and fought rebellious Shiite militiamen in a densely populated neighborhood...

Unlike animals, humans know that they must die. And they are frequently fascinated if not terrified by that fact. Every culture around the world features customs, legends, doctrines, and suppositions regarding this greatest of human mysteries. Among Muslims, a wealth of popular traditions supplements the fairly sparse data supplied by the Qur’an. Izra’il is the angel of death in Islamic folklore. (A similar character appears in Jewish accounts.) He keeps a roll on which the names of all humankind are inscribed. The names of the blessed are surrounded by bright light, while darkness encircles those of the damned. Izra’il does...

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