Your eternal destination: you decide.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/011214.htmlThe difficulty in determining what the Koran has to say about virgins and such is establishing what the Koran says, period. Translators vary widely in their rendering of the spare and often opaque text. For example, we find the following passage in a Web-based version of Islam's holy bookhttp://www.unn.ac.uk/societies/islamic/index.htm"Verily, for the Muttaqun [righteous], there will be a success (paradise); gardens and grapeyards; and young full-breasted (mature) maidens of equal age; and a full cup (of wine)" (An-Naba 78:31-34). Whoa, one thinks--the Kingdom of Heaven meets the Playboy Advisor! However, most other English translations, both on-line and in print, replace "full-breasted maidens" with some tame construction such as "companions." Inquiring further, we find that the Arabic word at issue is WakawaAAiba, which appears nowhere else in the Koran. The French, less prudish in these matters, usually render it as something like des belles aux seins arrondis, "beautiful women with round breasts," so I think it's pretty clear what the Prophet, or at least his stenographers, had in mind.Nothing in the Koran specifically states that the faithful are allotted 72 virgins apiece. For this elaboration we turn to the hadith, traditional sayings traced with varying degrees of credibility to Muhammad. Hadith number 2,562 in the collection known as the Sunan al-Tirmidhi says, "The least [reward] for the people of Heaven is 80,000 servants and 72 wives, over which stands a dome of pearls, aquamarine and ruby."A little hype from the marketing department, you may say. Fine. Let's return to the Koran, Islam's font of religious authority. Even if we leave out the racy detail and make allowances for metaphor, we're obliged to admit that Islamic heaven is a pretty rockin' place, with an emphasis on sensual pleasures. The provision of virgins in indeterminate quantities is alluded to at numerous points, and you know they're not just there to fluff the pillows. (In fairness to the Prophet, the physical quality usually attributed to the houris, as they're called, is "wide lovely eyes.") The food, service, ambience., etc, are great.

well for one it states that women are full and equal humans with perfect agency under allah. there are a few business applications that reduce their status but there's certainly nothing about them being forbidden to speak in church...

Well I'm a rabid Christian so lets have a look see. I know Allah can't exist when I know God does. Someone who cannot exist cannot send me anywhere.

About the Koran's stating that women have equality, can you give a quotation or chapter and verse?

it seems that Muslims don't exactly live by their Koran.

I should be prepared to wear something up to the neck and down to the wrists and a long skirt, with my hair covered of course, and that we would enter the mosque by a door set apart for women only and sit in a segregated area for women only.

Even the most rabid athiest will accept that God of the Bible could inf fact exist.

Someone who cannot exist cannot send me anywhere.

how ripe

Whereas I can know he (God) does.

Even the most rabid [Christian] will accept that [Allah] can well exist. They would also accept that Heaven and Hell of the [Q'uran] can exist (for simplicities sake: Heaven is bliss, Hell ain't)If you were to die a few minutes from now where do you think [Allah] would send you? And why do you think he would send you there?

Someone who cannot exist cannot send me anywhere.

He'd send me to the deepest Muslim hell

I have described several times what my problem is with your non-answer. So have others

Yes something is ripe. When asked to consider the same question you posed to others you started mumbling something about - lightyears and ripe cheese.

And you know he exists because, if I remember, you "suspended disbelief."