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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
Excuse my ignorance if I'm wrong but there's really nothing in the Koran that states there's 72 virgins in paradise, I think it's actually 72 raisins or some sort of crop seeds.
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Are you a scholar of Islam? No. You're not even Muslim. So telling Muslims what their doctrines should be, what the mythology of the faith should be, what they should preach, is utterly ridiculous. Non-Muslims should (and will) never be the arbiters of what the "true" Islam is. An Imam can preach whatever religious nonsense or "metaphor" he likes, and it's not incumbent upon him to "denounce" anyone. In fact, if he banned Abedi from the mosque and reported him to the authorities, it was the authorities who dropped the ball.
Of course, it's never that simple, given that this particular mosque has a history of hosting extremist anti-semitic and openly misogynist preachers and individuals linked to Al Qaeda groups. It's that sort of rhetoric, that sort of activity, that is the problem that needs to be addressed here and challenged by the Muslim community itself.