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A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.
‘Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,’ Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Women in the Islamic Republic are required by law to cover from head to toe, but many, especially the young, ignore some of the more strict codes and wear tight coats and scarves pulled back that show much of the hair. ‘What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble?’ Sedighi asked during a prayer sermon Friday. ‘There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam’s moral codes.’
Seismologists have warned for at least two decades that it is likely the sprawling capital will be struck by a catastrophic quake in the near future.
Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric’s unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and that many of its 12 million inhabitants should relocate.
Some experts have even suggested Iran should move its capital to a less seismically active location. Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, including one more than 50 miles (80 kilometres) long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.
Phew! Glad that’s cleared up.
#3 We just need to send Pat Roberston over to talk with them, he probably agrees with them.
#18. “All of the Iranian women I have met have been total babes. ”
ditto
OK cause no one else said it. Kind a gives a whole new meaning to rock your world. 22 agreed until they get a bit older, then it gets iffy some of the time.
It’s a bell curve of effects. Fully clad women: no effect. Fully nude women: no effect. “Scantily clad” women: disaster.
On the other hand, it’s not much of a stretch to think of how much disaster would be caused by scantily clad ayatollahs.
Buzz thanks for that mental picture, what did we ever do to you?
wait, did this Iranian Cleric actually mention the earthquake machines?
One of the main criticisms I have of Islam is its tendency to externalize guilt.
It’s such a convenient doctrine because there is always someone else to blame … usually women.
While not unique to Islam, it seems to have a particular problem with this issue.
This idea of externalized blame and guilt plays into why radical Muslims hate the west so much. As they see it, the west’s sinful culture is causing their culture to stray from submission to Allah.
Of course, the call to relocate is the beginning to prepare the country against the inevitable Israeli-pushed nuclear air strikes that will be carried out by their puppet, the US. Why the hell does the US let itself be an Israeli lapdog?
But at least its nice to see that earthquakes aren’t caused by gay folk any more.
Not that I have any great urge to defend Muslims, but doesn’t this story read like the Daily Mail cribbed it from The Onion without attribution?
As for why the US lets itself be an Israeli lapdog, SOMEbody’s got to do it…
# 29 Obvious1 said,
>> As for why the US lets itself be an Israeli lapdog, SOMEbody’s got to do it…
This is a common belief among Muslims — that Israel tell America exactly what to do.
Conversely they also believe that America tells Israel what to do.
For some reason, this seems to cause on cognitive dissonance whatsoever.
bobbo FTW
#21 – I see I wasn’t the only one who thought of Robertson, the minute I read this. Why is that, do you suppose? I guess the US isn’t the only one to have religious crackpots, willing to exploit acts of God, and/or mother nature, and blame it on whatever flavor of the month sin, they desire to “make book” on. I put them all in the same camp, along with those who blame every weather and climate anomaly on Global Warming, and human activity.
Accept, right now, we can hardly be blamed for that volcano in Iceland. So how does that fit into their climate models? Enough of these eruptions could significantly cool the earth, and reduce the high altitude air pollution by commercial jetliners. Which always seem to get a general wavier from being thought as a major source of global air pollution, compared to cars, trucks and trains. Atlantic Ocean liners are starting to look good again, 98 years after the Titanic sank.
So? Religion/magic/superstition make people stupid. OUR ministers here think gays an invisible being who lives in the sky to cause earthquakes or hurricanes. Sorry, crazy is crazy. There aren’t magical invisible sky beings telling us what breakfast meats we can eat or who we can have sex with. Magic isn’t real. Grow up.
Wow…thanks Windows cut & paste. What that meant to say was:
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So? Religion/magic/superstition make people stupid. OUR ministers here think gays cause earthquakes and hurricanes by angering an invisible being who lives in the sky. Sorry, crazy is crazy. There aren’t magical invisible sky beings telling us what breakfast meats we can eat or who we can have sex with. Magic isn’t real. Grow up
From the article:
“Tehran straddles scores of fault lines, including one more than 50 miles (80 kilometres) long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.”
I’d say it’s about due. Relocation is not a bad idea. We used to live much closer to a plate boundary. When we read of the research that discovered the Northwest’s history of magnitude 8 and 9 earthquakes every 300-600 years (the last one was in 1700 and the tsunami killed hundreds in Japan), we decided not to stick around.
That said, I think the imam has his eye on someone he wants to “discipline” and he’s cooking up the excuse ahead of time.
And this superstitious mentality wants nuclear weapons.
I thought my entire life was done. Living without the presence of answers to the difficulties you’ve fixed by means of your entire guideline is a serious case