I wouldn't want to run a fallacious argument
The belief that the Koran promises 72 virgins in heaven for Muslim martyrs is the result of a monumental mistranslation, according to Islam scholar Irshad Manji, who claims that these individuals are, instead, offered “raisins” after death.
In parenthesis, if you'd grown up in a tent made of camel hair and lived on a diet of camel's milk and camel meat cooked on burning camel shit, eating raisins would seem nothing short of heaven.
“Nowhere in the Koran does it promise 72 virgins, 70 virgins, 48 virgins. What it promises, as far as heaven goes, is something lush,” Manji argued on CNN. “The Arabic word for virgin has been mistranslated. The original word that was used in the Koran was the word for ‘raisin,’ not ‘virgin.’ In other words, martyrs will get raisins in heaven, not virgins.”
This idea about raisins is not new, as a 2002 piece in the Guadian noted that author Christoph Luxenberg‘s book “Die Syro–Aramaische Lesart des Koran” posited that “many obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic” - click here
What bad news for jihadists! Blowing themselves up for seventy-two raisins in a Sunkist box which they could've bought for $1.99 at ALDI!
P.S. Under the influence of my German genes and my former career in accountancy, I was forced to revise my earlier impression of Paradise:
