Women are to blame for earthquakes according to Iranian cleric

Started by Solmyr, April 20, 2010, 07:01:16 AM

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Solmyr

I knew it. :ph34r:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/19/women-blame-earthquakes-iran-cleric

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Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric

Women behaving promiscuously are causing the earth to shake, according to cleric, as Ahmadinejad predicts Tehran quake

A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing 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 the 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 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 last week. "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 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," said Sedighi, Tehran's acting Friday prayer leader. 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 12m people to evacuate. "But provisions have to be made ... at least 5 million should leave Tehran so it is less crowded," the president said.

The welfare minister, Sadeq Mahsooli, said prayers and pleas for forgiveness were the best "formulae 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.

HisMajestyBOB

Sounds reasonable. Have you seen the size of some of those burka-clad women?
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Eddie Teach

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Josephus

Iran is progressing nicely. They don't blame the Jews for shit anymore.
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Alatriste

You can spin it as much as you like, but the fact is every time the earth shakes there are women behaving promiscuously nearby, while it doesn't shake in the Sahara or Antarctica, does it?

Granted, we like conclusive evidence, and I volunteer to submit the hypothesis to a program of scientific experimentation under controlled conditions in suitable places: tectonics suggests Hawaii, California, Japan, Bali...

Neil

I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Richard Hakluyt

No earthquakes here in Britain  :cool:

But then, our women are fabled for their modest and chaste behaviour  :bowler:


Malthus

Quote from: Alatriste on April 20, 2010, 07:39:39 AM
You can spin it as much as you like, but the fact is every time the earth shakes there are women behaving promiscuously nearby, while it doesn't shake in the Sahara or Antarctica, does it?

Granted, we like conclusive evidence, and I volunteer to submit the hypothesis to a program of scientific experimentation under controlled conditions in suitable places: tectonics suggests Hawaii, California, Japan, Bali...

I'm willing to do my duty as an experimental subject.  :hmm:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

The Brain

Quote from: Malthus on April 20, 2010, 08:50:38 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on April 20, 2010, 07:39:39 AM
You can spin it as much as you like, but the fact is every time the earth shakes there are women behaving promiscuously nearby, while it doesn't shake in the Sahara or Antarctica, does it?

Granted, we like conclusive evidence, and I volunteer to submit the hypothesis to a program of scientific experimentation under controlled conditions in suitable places: tectonics suggests Hawaii, California, Japan, Bali...

I'm willing to do my duty as an experimental subject.  :hmm:

Good. You'll go into the control group.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.


lustindarkness

Quote from: The Brain on April 20, 2010, 12:57:41 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 20, 2010, 08:50:38 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on April 20, 2010, 07:39:39 AM
You can spin it as much as you like, but the fact is every time the earth shakes there are women behaving promiscuously nearby, while it doesn't shake in the Sahara or Antarctica, does it?

Granted, we like conclusive evidence, and I volunteer to submit the hypothesis to a program of scientific experimentation under controlled conditions in suitable places: tectonics suggests Hawaii, California, Japan, Bali...

I'm willing to do my duty as an experimental subject.  :hmm:

Good. You'll go into the control group.

:lmfao:
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Malthus

Quote from: The Brain on April 20, 2010, 12:57:41 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 20, 2010, 08:50:38 AM
Quote from: Alatriste on April 20, 2010, 07:39:39 AM
You can spin it as much as you like, but the fact is every time the earth shakes there are women behaving promiscuously nearby, while it doesn't shake in the Sahara or Antarctica, does it?

Granted, we like conclusive evidence, and I volunteer to submit the hypothesis to a program of scientific experimentation under controlled conditions in suitable places: tectonics suggests Hawaii, California, Japan, Bali...

I'm willing to do my duty as an experimental subject.  :hmm:

Good. You'll go into the control group.

It's CdM who is into ball gags and restraints.  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius