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Lucky for Hamas that the scriptures have been taken to be translated as "virgins" instead of the more precise meaning of "raisins".

As amusing as it might seem to think it was a mis-translation, every translation of the Qu'ran that I've seen talks about the reward in paradise similarly, For example: Quran 52:20, three translations by three authorative sources

052.020 YUSUFALI: They will recline (with ease) on Thrones (of dignity) arranged in ranks; and We shall join them to Companions, with beautiful big and lustrous eyes.
PICKTHAL: Reclining on ranged couches. And we wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.
SHAKIR: Reclining on thrones set in lines, and We will unite them to large-eyed beautiful ones.

The description of heaven as depicted by Islam as reward for a devout, strictly adhered to life of a Muslim has always struck me as an eminently revealing aspect into the primitive mind of the Arab mentality and to the very legitimacy of Islam as God's word.

Islam is the only religion, the only belief system in a supernatural deity that entices its adherents with the promise of a decidedly puerile, salacious, beastial, unspiritual nature, with the promise of an eternal afterlife of carnal indulgence without end.

No other religion resorts to the sort of whorish pandering in which Islam exhorts it followers by virtue of the basest of Man's primal urges.

Historically, religions have always looked upon the sex act as being of the Devil, as vile, unholy, unclean, as a necessary evil to be engaged in for the sake of procreation only.

Other religions describe heaven only in the most abstract, following the word of God deemed good, worthy enough as its own reward.

Simply put, this central tenet of Islam's belief system has always struck me as the very indication, proof of its wholly unGodly decidedly terrestrial nature I will ever need.