Thank you Goddess :)

The secret clause to the suicide bomber/heavenly virgin deal is if he completes 2 suicide missions he gets a week at the Bunny Ranch.

So Achmed arrives in paradise after his succesful suicide bombing against the Great Satan America. He's eagerly awaiting his 72 virgins when Thomas Jefferson walks up and kicks him in the nuts. Before he can recover Patrick Henry punches him in the face. George Washington is waiting patiently for his turn, holding a lead pipe.
"Allah!" calls Achmed. "Where are my 72 virgins?"
Allah responds "Sorry, that was a typo. What you get is 72 Virginians."

"Sorry, that was a typo. What you get is 72 Virginians."

Hey, Achmed, look on the bright side: it's only 72 Virginians. It could have been 72 Texans.

It's 72 raisins, not virgins. If we buy each of them a box, they should be satisfied now.

Why is it so hard to get some people to leave you alone? Islamists are like politicians.

If your goal is 72 virgins over eternity, Hinduism is the way to go.

Bill Maher has a bit about the 72 virgins, where he comments that "72" so sounds like a number agreed to a race of hagglers.

"100 Virgins!" "25!" "80!" "60!" "72!" "DONE!"

And in Uwe Boll's film "Postal" there's an unexpectedly funny scene where the pilots of the 9/11 WTC plane are arguing over the number of virgins. They call Osama and he tells them that, due to a surplus of martyrs, there's a virgin shortage, and he can only guarantee 17 virgins after their death. They plan to turn the plane around and head for Bermuda, but the passengers break in before they can change course.

"Why is it so hard to get some people to leave you alone?"

Borrowing money certainly is a lot more difficult these days. How much do you need?

HAHAHAHA! Too Funny!

Allah is gonna have alot of disappointed virgins on his hands....

I agree that the whole 72 virgin thing is ridiculous.

But my question is how is it any more or less silly than any other concept of heaven or the afterlife in general?

I find it most humorous that some people will laugh at and make fun of the 72 virgin thing without even the slightest hint of irony that their own personal beliefs about the afterlife are probably just as silly.

I find any belief sans evidence silly and naive. But, a Christian might tell you you'll burn in hell -- but not try to behead you to help get you there faster.

Amy,

I absolutely agree with you that there is an important difference between people who believe something and try to inflict it upon you under threat of physical violence and those who do not.

I'm just pointing out that believing that you will be welcomed by 72 virgins upon death is no more outlandish than believing that you will be welcomed by your entire ancestral lineage of people who love you.

Having any specific set of beliefs about an afterlife without first establishing that there is an afterlife is putting the cart before the horse.

Off with your head, Amy, I'm a Scorpio!

o.O

I'm not only a Scorpio, I"m also a Dragon (Chinese astrology)! :-)

Kidding aside, I've heard that the actual number for Muslims is: 72 Mansions, each having 72 Bedrooms, each having 72 Virgins, or 373,248 Virgins.

Dang, that's a lot of breaking in to do!

The obvious conclusion - the virgins are virgins because nobody wanted to boink them on Earth before they croaked.

Congrats, Abdul, you're spending eternity in bed with 72 of the most emotionally-needy physically-unattractive women you can possibly imagine.