MARTYRS AND THEIR REWARD

Submitted by E.J. SHAFER (United States), Mar 8, 2007 at 15:57

The same question keeps coming to mind every time I see or read an article about "The Rewards of Martyrdom"!

If all those promised goodies awaiting someone who straps a bomb on his body in order to kill the "non-believers or infidels" are really "something to die for", then why do we see no Immans, Mullahs or Ayatolahs getting in line? Can it be that they simply don"t believe in that which they extoll or could it be that their tastes do not run to virginal maidens but to some other form of sexual gratification not available in their pardise?

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