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To: TBP

Isn’t “virgin” a mistranslation of the word “raisin” ?


5 posted on 11/17/2015 9:23:36 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Possibly. The word in the Koran that is translated as “virgin” and is understood as that by Moslems is quite possibly derived from an ancient Aramaic word for grape. The definitions in the Koran and the Hadiths, however make it pretty clear that in Arabic, whatever the derivation, the word means “virgin” but then those virgins are described pretty much as non-living sex toys, robots as it were.


16 posted on 11/18/2015 5:36:20 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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