72 Virgins and Boys

Muslims are motivated to terrorism because the Quran tells them that fighting non-believers
is a duty of every Muslim and the only way to be certain of going to heaven to enjoy untold
sensual pleasures is to die fighting in the cause of Allah.
If they can make it to heaven, one of the rewards all Muslims are promised is 72 virgins.
The number of virgins is not specified in Quran, it comes from a quotation of Muhammad
recorded in one of the lesser known Hadith. ("Hadith" is an Arabic word meaning traditions.
After Muhammad's death, several collections of his deeds and sayings were assembled.
These collections are called Hadith and form the second most authoritative document is
Islam, right after the Quran.)
VIRGINS (Houris):
Mohammed knew that sex would sell very well among the group of his followers who were
motivated to fight battles by the promise of sex slaves and booty. By constantly
emphasizing to his followers that they would get untouched virgins in Paradise, Mohammed
is clearly expressing his "high" opinion of the institution of marriage and his fairness to
women. Once the followers go to heaven, they can
conveniently ditch their wives for the fresher and
more pleasurable sexual encounters with 'Houris'
(beautiful virgins). The poor wives who gave up
their virginity for the pleasure of their husbands do
not get anything. But wait, Allah is all merciful! He
gives the wives the rare honour of watching their
husbands deflower those 72 Houris (virgins) and
28 young pre-pubescent boys.
The specific Hadith in which the number of virgins
is specified is Hadith Al-Tirmidhi in the Book of
Sunah (volume IV, chapters on The Features of
Paradise as described by the Messenger of Allah, chapter 21, About the Smallest Reward for
the People of Paradise. The same hadith is also quoted by Ibn Kathir in his Quranic
commentary (Tafsir) of Surah Al-Rahman:
"The Prophet Muhammad was heard saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise
is an abode where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome
decorated with pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyah [a
Damascus suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]."
(QURAN 37:40-4 : "In the Gardens of Paradise, Facing one another on thrones, Round them
will be passed a cup of pure wine; White, delicious to the drinkers, Neither they will have
any kind of hurt, abdominal pain, headache, or sin, nor will they suffer intoxication from it.
And with them will be chaste females, restraining their glances, with wide and beautiful
eyes."
(QURAN 44:51-55): "Verily! The righteous will be in Paradise. Among Gardens and Springs;
Dressed in fine silk and also in thick silk, facing each other, and We shall marry them to
Houris with wide, lovely eyes."
(QURAN 52: 17-20): "Verily, for those who fear Allah there will be Gardens in Paradise,
filled with Delight. Enjoying in that which their Lord has bestowed on them, and the fact
that their Lord saved them from the torment of the blazing Fire. The Lord will say: `Eat and
drink with happiness because of what you used to do. They will recline with ease on thrones
arranged in ranks. And We shall marry them to Houris with wide lovely eyes."
(QURAN 55:54-59): "Reclining upon the couches lined with silk brocade, and the fruits of
the Gardens will be near at hand. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you deny?
Wherein will be those houris, restraining their glances upon their husbands, whom no man
or jinn has opened their hymens with sexual intercourse before. Then which of the Blessings
of your Lord will you deny? In beauty they are like rubies and coral. Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you deny?"
(QURAN 55:70-77): "Therein gardens will be fair wives good and beautiful; Then which of
the Blessings of your Lord will you deny? Houris restrained in pavilions; Then which of the
Blessings of your Lord will you deny? Whom no man has opened their hymens with sexual
intercourse before. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will you deny? Reclining on
green cushions and rich beautiful mattresses. Then which of the Blessings of your Lord will
you deny?"
(QURAN 56:37-40): "...We created the houris and made them virgins, loving companions
for those on the right hand.."
(QURAN 78:31-34): "As for the righteous, they shall surely triumph. Theirs shall be gardens
and vineyards, and high-bosomed virgins for companions: a truly overflowing cup."
Two points need to be noted. First, there is no mention anywhere in the Quran of the actual
number of virgins available in paradise, and second, the dark-eyed damsels are available for
all Muslims, not just martyrs. It is in the Islamic Traditions that we find the 72 virgins in
heaven specified: in a Hadith (Islamic Tradition) collected by Al-Tirmidhi (died 892 AD) in
the Book of Sunan (volume IV, chapters on The Features of Paradise as described by the
Messenger of Allah [Prophet Muhammad], chapter 21, About the Smallest Reward for the
People of Paradise, (Hadith 2687). The same hadith is also quoted by Ibn Kathir (died 1373
CE ) in his Quranic commentary (Tafsir) of Surah Al-Rahman (55), verse 72: "The Prophet
Muhammad was heard saying: 'The smallest reward for the people of paradise is an abode
where there are 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome decorated with
pearls, aquamarine, and ruby, as wide as the distance from Al-Jabiyyah [a Damascus
suburb] to Sana'a [Yemen]'."
An Hamas spokesman correctly uses the word martyr (shahid) and not suicide bomber,
since those who blow themselves up almost daily in Israel and those who died on
September 11 were dying in the noblest of all causes, Jihad, which is an incumbent religious
duty, established in the Quran and in the Traditions as a divine institution, and enjoined for
the purpose of advancing Islam. While suicide is forbidden, martyrdom is everywhere
praised, welcomed, and urged: "By the Being in Whose Hand is my life, I love that I should
be killed in the way of Allah; then I should be brought back to life and be killed again in His
way..."; "The Prophet said, 'Nobody who enters Paradise will ever like to return to this world
even if he were offered everything, except the martyr who will desire to return to this world
and be killed 10 times for the sake of the great honour that has been bestowed upon him'."
[Sahih Muslim, chapters 781, 782, The Merit of Jihad and the Merit of Martyrdom.]
Eternal erection and virginity
Modern apologists of Islam try to downplay the evident materialism and sexual implications
of such descriptions, but, as the Encyclopaedia of Islam says, even orthodox Muslim
theologians such as al Ghazali (died 1111 AD) and Al-Ash'ari (died 935 AD) have "admitted
sensual pleasures into paradise". The sensual pleasures are graphically elaborated by Al-
Suyuti (died 1505 AD), Quranic commentator and polymath. He wrote: "Each time we sleep
with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection
is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out
of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one
[ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all
will have appetising vaginas."
BOYS.
Homosexuality was and is widely practised in Islamic countries. To please
the homosexuals among his followers he promised them pre-pubescent
boys in Paradise. So after committing plunder, loot, rape and murder in
this life, the followers of Islam get "rewarded" by untouched virginal
youths who are fresh like pearls.
(QURAN 52:24): "And there will go round boy-servants of theirs, to serve
them as if they were preserved pearls."
(QURAN 56:17): "They will be served by immortal boys."
(QURAN 76:19): "And round about them will (serve) boys of everlasting
youth. If you see them, you would think them scattered pearls."
It is common in Arabic poetry to glorify homosexuality, take their famous poet Abu Nuwas:
O the joy of sodomy!
So now be sodomites, you Arabs.
Turn not away from it--
therein is wondrous pleasure.
Take some coy lad with kiss-curls
twisting on his temple
and ride as he stands like some gazelle
standing to her mate.
A lad whom all can see girt with sword
and belt not like your whore who has
to go veiled.
Make for smooth-faced boys and do your
very best to mount them, for women are
the mounts of the devils
One of the reasons Nietzsche hated Christianity was that it "made something unclean out of
sexuality", whereas Islam, many would argue, was sex-positive. One cannot imagine any of
the Church fathers writing ecstatically of heavenly sex as al-Suyuti did, with the possible
exception of St Augustine before his conversion.
In our Western world where many scientist purportedly believe in Evolution when in fact
they do not inside, it is reported that when confronted with a question on this dichotomy of
mind, their usual answer is: "I must believe in Evolution and reject Christianity for
Christianity limits my sex life".
It seems then that this promise of sensual happiness and sexual bliss in paradise, not only
is the motivator for the Islamic terrorists but it may even be a motivator for our secular
evolutionists to join the rank of Islam.