King Mohammad VI's Speech

    According to the Wall Street Journal, page A9, 8-27/28-2016, there was a major development with the totalitarian religion of Islam. King Mohammed VI of Morocco is reported to have asked in an important speech on August 20 this: "Can anyone of sound mind believe that the reward for Jihad could be some virgins in Paradise? Is it conceivable that anyone who listens to music will be swallowed by the Earth?"
    It is not conceivable to me that Muslims aren't demonstrating in the streets over those questions. Such blasphemy! Is it because the king is considered to be a direct heir of Mohammed, the founding prophet of Islam? Ever since the 8th Century, men have been giving their lives more willingly because of the promise of 72 virgins in Paradise. In fact, during battle Mohammed allegedly informed one of his trusted lieutenants of the sexual situation in heaven that he would earn if if he died in battle. The warrior wanted the virgins in perpetuity so much that he went directly to the front line of the battle and got himself killed. Of course. people believe that promise, as low brow and teenage as it is. Was the King really saying people shouldn't believe that there is such a heaven as well as saying they shouldn't believe music listeners would be swallowed by the earth? If he was saying that, I salute him, but where is the response from the Sharia Muslims? Why am I not reading on the Internet of any explosive and of course, threatening, responses to these remarks? Did the Wall Street Journal get it wrong? Or have Muslims all decided that describing a Paradise that sounds more like a whorehouse in the sky was too immature and have discarded it? So what are the Islamo- Fascists offering their suicide bombers now - a free trip to Disneyland before they blow others and themselves up? I don't think that's going to work.
    I feel like I'm missing something here. Or was what the king of Morocco said planned deceit? In other words, "We believe in the great whorehouse in the sky and people listening to music being swallowed up by the earth, but we know it makes us look mad or hopelessly primitive to the modern world, so we are going to pretend to the modern world we don't believe in these things so we won't be institutionalized or ridiculed." In other words, is it just like the Arab States signing the United Nations Charter that they will respect the inviolable rights of individuals and then passing resolutions back home taking back those rights?
    I can't believe I am so perceptive that there are no other comments about these two amazing things the king said, especially the abrogation of Islamic heaven. I must be missing a lot, but hope not.
Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major, Class of '68, William and Mary
"The measure of a man,
  Is not what he says,
  But what he does,
  And what he allows others,
  To do in his presence."
   - Navy Seal Instructor
"Free Will is your ability to be rational in spite of the irrational urges from your genes and your experiences."
   - Peter Nickerson, Philosophy Major