Challenging the Qur’an

A German scholar contends that the Islamic text has been mistranscribed and
promises raisins, not virgins

http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/940974.asp?cp1=1

In a note of encouragement to his fellow hijackers, September 11 ringleader
Muhammad Atta cheered their impending “marriage in Paradise” to the 72
wide-eyed virgins the Qur’an promises to the departed faithful. Palestinian
newspapers have been known to describe the death of a suicide bomber as a
“wedding to the black-eyed in eternal Paradise.” But if a German expert on
Middle Eastern languages is correct, these hopes of sexual reward in the
afterlife are based on a terrible misunderstanding.

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