Iranian Cleric: Promiscuous Women Cause Earthquakes

[ccharles000]

BEIRUT — A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes.

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.

"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. Sedighi is Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader.

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.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/19/iranian-cleric-promiscuou_n_543100.html

[nebenaube]

1. somehow I think perhaps something might have been lost in translation n/t

[Xipe Totec]

3. Yes. He meant to say "They make the Earth move" nt

[JuniperLea]

2. Because men can't possibly be held accountable for their own actions!

Noooo... if a woman is raped, she asked for it!

Men can't be expected to resist any urges God gives him... ugh.

[Beartracks]

4. So Rush Limbaugh and this cleric have a lot in common.

They both think God punishes large populations through natural phenomena because of the actions of liberals. Interesting.

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[eissa]

5. Who knew our vaginas were that powerful?

If this was true, one would think places like Ibiza would have been shaken to its core.

[VOX]

6. Ludicrous - no different than Fallwell/Robertson blaming 9/11 on feminists, gays, etc.

http://www.actupny.org/YELL/falwell.html

Partial transcript of comments from the
September 13, 2001 telecast of the 700 Club:

Falwell to Robertson, 9/13/2001: "...The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this...And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"

:puke:

[pinboy3niner]

7. He left out marine oil rig explosions nt

[hughee99]

8. Why aren't Iranian seismologists spending more time investigating women

who don't dress modestly instead of all this "geological nonsense".

[eShirl]

9. in the words of Carol King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoHuxpa4h48

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Nonsense. We all know it's melting glaciers that cause earthquakes. n/t