Seventy Two Virgins - The Wolverhampton connection

10.00.11am GMT Tue 15th Aug 2006

Not a comment on Muslim martyrdom but Boris Johnson MP's book Seventy Two Virgins. I have just read the book and can throughly recommend it.

The book of course is based on Muslim martyrdom and the promise of 72 virgins. I won't spoil it but it centres around four Muslim terrorists and the visit of the US President to the House of Commons. It is a very funny book and gives a light-highted look at bumbling incompetent (very Boris Johnson). One of the terrorists is from Wolverhampton and Boris even manages to write some of this terrorists words in the local Black Country dialect which makes it even funnier.