{"id":213641,"date":"2016-05-23T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T22:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/05\/23\/do_martyrs_get_virgins_or_raisins_\/"},"modified":"2017-07-10T10:33:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:33:28","slug":"do_martyrs_get_virgins_or_raisins_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/05\/23\/do_martyrs_get_virgins_or_raisins_\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Martyrs Get Virgins or Raisins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/71568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<section>RUSH: Fareed Zakaria GPS. On Fareed Zakaria\u2019s Global Positioning Satellite show on CNN, he played a clip of the&#8230; I guess there\u2019s a documentary out there called Why They Hate Us.\u00a0 Who do&#8230;? The State Department convened a seminar after 9\/11 entitled, &#8220;Why Do They Hate Us?&#8221;\u00a0 Meaning the imams, militant Islamists and terrorists: Why do they hate us?\u00a0 It\u2019s our fault!\u00a0What have we done to make them mad?\u00a0 After playing a clip from it, he had an interview with an author and Muslim reformer Irshad Manji.\u00a0 Irshad Manji.\u00a0 So Fareed Zakaria addresses the idea that the Koran promises a martyr 72 virgins in the name of Islam.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2016\/03\/22\/the_left_thinks_it_s_all_our_fault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img id=\"eZObject_122774\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ISISWhyDoTheyHate-032216.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>ZAKARIA: (haltingly) The Koran promises a martyr in the name of Islam, 72 virgins.\u00a0 Is that true?<\/p>\n<p>MANJI:\u00a0 It is not true.<\/p>\n<p>ZAKARIA:\u00a0 Manji says that several scholars studying the original text came to a startling realization.<\/p>\n<p>MANJI:\u00a0 Nowhere in the Koran does it promise 72 virgins, 70 virgins, 48 virgins.\u00a0 What it promises, as far as heaven goes, is something&#8230;\u00a0 The Arabic word for &#8220;virgin&#8221; has been mistranslated.\u00a0 The original used that was used in the Koran was the word for raisin, not virgin, in other words, that martyrs would get raisins in heaven, not virgins.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pshew. I\u2019d like to be there when they tell them this.\u00a0 &#8220;Uh, sorry! Not virgins.\u00a0 You were misinformed.\u00a0 Here are 73 raisins.&#8221;\u00a0 You envision that?\u00a0 Now, when I saw this&#8230; You know, I don\u2019t just stop here. I just am not wantonly accepting of this stuff.\u00a0 I actually dug into this.\u00a0 I found out that it is an ongoing controversy within Islam, the definition of the word that has been translated &#8220;virgins&#8221; as it\u2019s used by militant Islamists as they recruit.\u00a0 It is unsettled.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_122806\" class=\"img_middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Osama-Raisin-Jihadi-Bran-B.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/>It really is unsettled what it actually means, and there is one interpretation that does mean raisins.\u00a0 Now, what are raisins? The reason they think &#8220;raisins&#8221; here is specific.\u00a0 What are raisins?\u00a0 Does anybody&#8230;? (interruption) You know what a raisin actually is?\u00a0 It\u2019s a dried grape, dried prune, shriveled up. You gotta think of this in the right way now, Snerdley. Dried up, shriveled up, dried out, worn out. Think of all of the&#8230; The opposite of virgin.\u00a0 So it means grape, raisin, what have you.<\/p>\n<p>So this does mean that the bin Ladens and the other imams and the Ayman al-Zawahiris and so forth are purposely promising virgins when they know it\u2019s raisin.\u00a0 If we would just treat these guys the way Democrats treat Republicans, we could discredit these people inside of a week.\u00a0 Can you imagine, say, Hillary Clinton going on TV and just laying into bin Laden for this? &#8220;How dare you mislead all these young men, all of these youths, promising them virgins when it\u2019s raisins?&#8221;\u00a0 And then compare it to Republicans, somehow, some way.\u00a0 We can dream.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Fareed Zakaria GPS. On Fareed Zakaria\u2019s Global Positioning Satellite show on CNN, he played a clip of the&#8230; I guess there\u2019s a documentary out there called Why They Hate Us.\u00a0 Who do&#8230;? 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