Where did they come from?

Well the 72are causing alot of pain on earth?

New Arab TV show creates anger

A New TV Show Angers Some Arabs, according to Saudi Newspaper "Asharq Alawsat".

A new television series being broadcast around the Middle East tells the story of Arabs living in residential compounds in Saudi Arabia and the militant Islamists who want to blow them up so they can collect their rewards in heaven — 72 beautiful virgins.
The show's message: terrorism is giving Islam a bad name, and Muslims are suffering because of the actions of a few.

Nobody will be surprised that this message is not universally popular in the Middle East.

The programs, which began last Tuesday on the first day of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, have come under a blistering attack on the Internet in Arabic language chat rooms.
The critics are demanding the Saudi-owned and Dubai-based Middle East Broadcasting Corporation, a popular Arabic satellite television station that bought the show and broadcasts it across the region, cancel it.



After all, we are not great on self-criticism. "Face", you understand. For example:

Last year, some television stations canceled "The Road to Kabul," which chronicled life under Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers, after Internet threats from Islamists against everyone from actors to television executives because the show portrayed the Taliban in a negative light.

So how on earth do you portray the Taliban in a good light? Similar to what they did for the Khmer Rouge, I suppose. Let's leave that for another time.

Amongst other things, the current program portrays how

...just before one of the 2003 attacks on a residential compound in Saudi Arabia, an attacker who was in contact with his superiors was "heard on the mobile phone counting down the seconds to the 'beautiful maidens.' His last words were: 'One second to the 'beautiful maidens.' He then blew himself up."

I don't know where people are getting this "72 virgins" business.

This myth was probably found under a rock among ancient Arab legends or hadith and the Western media took it and ran away with it.
Now everyone but Muslims are accepting it as some sort of valid Islamic concept.


The Koran says nothing about a man recieiving 72 virgins for killing himself.

What it DOES say is that both MEN AND WOMEN will recieve pure holy companions for their enjoyment along with good food, peace, and everlastingrest among lush gardens.

Seventy Two Virgins?

Endless blanket washing more like.

Perhaps the whole"72 virgins" is an ancient myth (in the anthropological definition; sacred truth) perverted. Those 72 virgins just might be the Supreme God's angels (Mal'ak/Messenger in Hebrew).