Cobol - Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

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Re: OT: Racial superiority / Intelligent design was Re: OT:Thanksgiving

Robert

2008-01-16, 9:56 pm

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:45:24 -0800 (PST), Alistair.J.L.Maclean@googlemail.com wrote:

>Does any one know where the 70 virgins and automatic entry to heaven
>comes from? The Koran says that martyrs (as distinct from suicides)
>will receive recompense from Allah and shall sit in heaven but doesn't
>mention virgins.

That's because the Koran was written in New Jersey, where there are no virgins (over the
age of 13).

The original said 70 groupies. Arabs didn't know what that meant, so they changed it to
virgins.

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