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Last night in a really shady club in Stockholm

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riiiiiiight

google the terms 'raisins virgins' and check it out - I got 111,000 hits and saws no sign that they were spammy hits up to page 20, at which point I stopped checking. It's certainly a well enough known fact, theory, hpothesis - call it what you want - to make it to national radio in the UK.

One reason it is not especially well known (to certain people) seems to be that lots of people are very keen to imagine that most suicide bombers are young, sex-starved males who allow their thinking to get warped by sexual frustration.

The myth of the promise of 72 virgins has continued and is propagated because it pretty much supports that stereotypical view. A reasonably large proportion of suicide bombers etc. actually do fit this model but quite a lot don't - married, with kids etc.

The 72 virgins myth is a pretty good way of avoiding any kind of sensible analysis of a fairly complex problem, similar to just saying 'bollox', for example.
 
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