Monday, June 27, 2005

Female Suicide Bombers get 72 Virgins?

Hmm this is an interesting statement I saw on opinion Journal.

Girls Gone Wild
Fundamentalist Muslim mythology has it that terrorist "martyrs" are greeted in heaven by 72 virgins. With Palestinian Arabs increasingly making use of female suicide bombers, we've often wondered what they get in heaven. Now we have the answer, thanks to a report in London's Sunday Telegraph from an Israeli prison:

One of the inmates, Ayat Allah Kamil, 20, from Kabatya, told me why she had wanted to become a martyr: "Because of my religion. I'm very religious. For the holy war [jihad] there's no difference between men and women shaid [martyrs]."

According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr "will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair."

That is to say, the highest aspiration for a fundamentalist Palestinian girl is murder, suicide and prostitution. Has there ever been a more depraved culture?

I think the female suicide bombers get a passel of 72 Comic Book Store Guys, who live in their parents basement and get squeamish at the mention of a naked female. All 72 will congregate together, have bad BO, and mostly ignore her in favor of their debate about whether the Enterprise can beat an Imperial Star Destroyer in one on one combat.

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