And Al-Qaeda's Enlistment Drops Significantly

Poking around the internet I ended up reading about Islamic eschatology (end times). While the Muslim world has yet to release its version of the "Left Behind" series, the subject of all the virgins you get in Heaven has been popular to write about not only in recent years, but for Islamic scholars of yester year. Anyway, if you don't mind reading this article , its pretty interesting. If you don't feel like reading it, or didn't get to the bottom, I'll explain what's so funny.

Basically a guy came out with a translation of the Quran, he though had the idea that some of the words were actually Syriac instead of the Arabic everyone normally thought. So what happens when you use a word with a different language? It changes a few things. Notably, the guy translating asserts that the virgins everyone talks about are actually meant to be translated as RAISINS. So with all the hot sexing your expecting to get after you speed a little boat into a battleship, one might be dissapointed to find out you are rewarded with snack food.

I tried to look up reviews of the book, and couldn't find any actual scholarly reviews. A normal review, some news pieces on it, and the expected condemations, and pages basically giggling about it just like this one. Man, I guess I'm slow to the punch.