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To: weegee
Not quite ~ Mohammad never received a complete copy of even a single Gospel. This was the Dark Ages, and at best he had partial transcripts of New Testament Letters, possibly the Book of Proverbs (although not in Aramaic or Hebrew), and maybe chunks and bits of a Torah buried hundreds of years before somewhere in the vicinity of Mecca.

The "72 Virgins" story is NOT PART OF THE KORAN. Instead, it is in an Hadith, and these items are simply stories about the life and times of the Prophet. Many of them were made up for political purposes, or inheritance (the prize being the Islamic state ~ see Shia).

No Christian should place great faith in the reliability of any Hadith! Few reflective Moslems do. Most folks, though, keep their mouths shut because there are these ignoramuses out there who will kill you for criticizing the Koran or the Hadiths.

The "72 Virgins" story is one of the more questionable items in the collection.

12 posted on 08/28/2004 6:38:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I've more than "hadith" with these terrorists using their weird beliefs to justify heinous crimes...


14 posted on 08/28/2004 8:16:59 PM PDT by mikrofon (Give them their 'Tickets to Paradise')
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