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Remember all those jokes after 9/11 about the 72 virgins in heaven?
talking about it
Time to explain it: yeah there's sexual partners in Islamic afterlife, but idk where they got the 72 number from, and "virgins" doesn't make sense Islamically speaking. if I remember correctly they're creatures that were created for that purpose and not people from life, they're also fully customizable, I don't want to get into an ethicality discussion about something in the afterlife because we're not in the afterlife and we kinda don't know if the afterlife is real. What matters is how it affects the thought process of who believe in it, and the conclusion that I and multiple people I've discussed it with reached is that it's a promise to keep Muslims away from sexually assaulting in war, a man who believes in afterlife where he'll have his sexual urges satisfied forever will not risk it to sexually assault a helpless person in a war, and I think we've seen how effective it was with Al Qassam on oct.7.Thanks for the context!
I always heard 72 virgins was a thing Hasan-i Sabbah and his followers made up. They'd get a recruit high and laid and when he woke up they'd tell him that it was a vision from Allah of a fraction of their rewards for martyrdom.
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After 9/11 the thing about how Al Qaeda taught would-be martyrs that they could expect 72 virgins in heaven got joked about a lot. With the implication that you would have to be stupid to believe that there are 72 virgins waiting for you in heaven.
And yet here we see the exact same thing reduplicated on the US side. Same with the IOF thirst traps.
I'll say it does seem incredibly stupid to go to war to get pussy, but you can't argue with the recruiting results, and there's certainly precedent!
We’re not stupid enough to believe in 72 virgins. Every patriot knows there are 1776 virgins waiting for them in heaven.
American Christians will mock the 72 virgins thing and then pull out their massive poster than explains the end times according the Book of Revelations. Like people flying in the air and part human part locust part lion (IIRC$ creatures stinging people