Also, I understand a muslim may not enter Paradise without his genitals, so we need to relieve them of these items when they are captured or killed.
I have always wondered how blowing ones self to bits does not violate that whole “may not enter Paradise without his genitals” thing.
Because the imam says so. Whatever the imam says the koran says is what the koran says. (Consistancy and expediency seldom meet.)
They wrap them in tinfoil to protect them.
Seriously.