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Makes sense. First, you eat the apple.
Now, you cause quakes.
Disease and pestilence maybe, but earthquakes??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100419/...es_promiscuity
Iranian cleric: Promiscuous women cause quakes
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 chas y 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.
"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.
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 kilometers) long, though it has not suffered a major quake since 1830.
In 2003, a powerful earthquake hit the southern city of Bam, killing 31,000 people — about a quarter of that city's population — and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel.
"A divine authority told me to tell the people to make a general repentance. Why? Because calamities threaten us," Sedighi said.
Referring to the violence that followed last June's disputed presidential election, he said, "The political earthquake that occurred was a reaction to some of the actions (that took place). And now, if a natural earthquake hits Tehran, no one will be able to confront such a calamity but God's power, only God's power. ... So let's not disappoint God."
The Iranian government and its security forces have been locked in a bloody battle with a large opposition movement that accuses Ahmadinejad of winning last year's vote by fraud.
Ahmadinejad made his quake prediction two weeks ago but said he could not give an exact date. He acknowledged that he could not order all of Tehran's 12 million people to evacuate. "But provisions have to be made. ... At least 5 million should leave Tehran so it is less crowded," the president said.
Minister of Welfare and Social Security Sadeq Mahsooli said prayers and pleas for forgiveness were the best "formulas to repel earthquakes."
"We cannot invent a system that prevents earthquakes, but God has created this system and that is to avoid sins, to pray, to seek forgiveness, pay alms and self-sacrifice," Mahsooli said.
Makes sense. First, you eat the apple.
Now, you cause quakes.
shake it like a salt shaka!
<--- approves of promiscous women who can make the earth move.
yes they do
What a piece of . He sounds like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell.
"Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chas y and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,"
Love this statement. The inferred cause and effect is an outright riot! Immodest dress leads men to stray, creates babies, infects society with immorality and... SHAKES THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS WORLD!!!
I'll all for blaming on es cause they're , but come on now
Crap, if this was true Dallas would have been destroyed decades ago.
he just wants to bang one, he is frustrated.
these people are crazy with their f*cked up beliefs and narrowminded thoughts, but they also have power, that makes it dangerous.
they also , alot
s and abortions did cause 9/11, though.
This is actually true. It's the natural consequence of not allowing men and women to have normal social relationships.
Another example of people believing that god is a magic bag.
This Cleric must have never met Chilean women.
Why is that it is always women seducing men? Do men have no say in their own actions and moral decisions?
I don't get that. If there is sin because of adulterous action, it's on both the man and woman. If there is sin because of immoral dress, it's as much on the men who look as the woman who flaunts.
Ugh.
All of the Major Religions are misogynistic, at least to some extent. Islam is just the cutting edge of depersonalization and control of the female.
Once her shawl is removed, even Alla gets shocked to trembling which causes quakes, regardless of asceticism.
Don't need no Iman to tell me that. That is common knowledge.
I know.
I am not a fan.
If that's the case shouldn't there be an 8.3 quake every night at joe's volcano??
There's plenty of evil beyond promiscuity. Isolating that as a factor for disasters screams ignorance. I'm not one to assume I know God's plans or how he interacts with our world but I'd like to think he doesn't make it a point to send earthquakes off and on to punish all humans believers and sinners alike for just the faults of women alone.
Why can't people just use common sense anymore...?
People in the middle east are ultra conservative, they want to live according to 2,000 year old rules and demand that everyone follow their religion. They want to control everyone, take things to the extreme, and refuse to change or adapt to the modern world. Some of their customs like Burkas (the things that entirely cover women) are totally ridiculous.
Some westerners on the other hand also forget common sense. I think Dave Chappelle did a skit on it "If you dress like a hooker, you might just get confused for one". The way you dress impacts the way people view you. Don't wear a shirt with your boobs hanging and then get mad when guys stare
Don't wear a shirt with your boobs hanging and then get mad when guys stare
i saw this blonde girl walking to class the other day with the most gargantuous knockers ever hanging out of her top.
best part...it was raining.
i love america
s are causing quakes? I thought it was global warming. Was Al Gore wrong?
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