Promiscuous women cause earthquakes, Iran cleric says

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/20/iran.promiscuity.earthquakes/index.html?hpt=T2

(CNN) -- Women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes, a leading Iranian hard-line cleric has apparently said.

The prayer leader, Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, says women and girls who "don't dress appropriately" spread "promiscuity in society."

"When promiscuity spreads, earthquakes increase," he says in a video posted Monday on YouTube, apparently of him leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, last week.

"There is no way other than taking refuge in religion and adapting ourselves to Islamic behavior," he adds in the video.

The video was posted by YouTube user "electionlies," who appears to be anti-regime. The account features wallpaper of a blindfolded woman apparently weeping blood and the slogan, "The green movement is alive."

Green was the color of anti-regime protesters in last year's demonstrations in several cities across Iran. The protesters were marching against the country's election results, which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office.

Sadeghi is a senior cleric who was appointed last year by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as a substitute Friday prayer leader in Tehran, an extremely influential position.

Khamenei himself is Tehran's official Friday prayer leader.

Iran suffers regular earthquakes, including a devastating one that destroyed the ancient city of Bam in 2003, killing tens of thousands.

Sadeghi is not the only religious leader to have linked earthquakes with human behavior this year.

American televangelist Pat Robertson suggested that January's devastating earthquake in Haiti was because of a pact Haitians made with the devil in order to throw off French rule in the 18th century.

A spokesman for Robertson said he was referring to a widely discussed Haitian legend, but University of Miami researcher Kate Ramsey said the legend was "utterly a fabrication, and it's an extremely offensive one."

maybe I should start a "rolling smh at dumb things ppl say" thread

I mentioned it here

oohh we got one of these guys! I'll try to find the details.

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Self-proclaimed visionary Joe Coleman, who recently predicted public apparitions of Our Lady at Knock Shrine, predicts that the ash cloud across Europe is set to worsen.

Mr Coleman said: “The volcanic eruption is about to intensify and get darker. It is just one of a series of events about to unfold around the world in the lead up to the second coming of Christ which is imminent.”

Mr Coleman also predicts that an extraordinary phenomena where a series of ‘crosses in the sky’ will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people around Ireland in lead-up to the next apparition of Our Lady “which will take place in Knock next month”. In addition, he has been told that “new moons that have never been seen before with the naked eye will be seen”.

“Our Lady, the blessed mother of God, uses me simply as a channel,” he said. “My job is not to convert. My job is to publish the messages.”

it seems like you would need an awful lot of synchronized promiscuity to cause an earthquake

xp: new moons? really?

it seems like you would need an awful lot of synchronized promiscuity to cause an earthquake

The Rhythm Method?

http://www.soundonsight.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/new-moon.jpg

ha Laurel I was considering going there

also I have Janet Jackson songs in my head now

Can this thread double as a "Leading Iranian hard-line cleric who says women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes, what's on your IPod" thread?

first we tell them to "shake it" and then we get mad when they shake it? bullshit.

Tom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPtltbBH6cg

xp: new moons? really?

― HI DERE, 21 April 2010 13:41 (7 minutes ago)

Hey, more than one person in my office of 35 went to see this guy. I felt like I was in a 1970's Stephen King apocalyptic set-up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngh52RkIRI

Thousands of special forces have been deployed in Tehran's streets, participating in the regime's "moral security plan" in which loose-fitting headscarves, tight overcoats and shortened trousers that expose skin will not be tolerated for women, while men are warned against glamorous hairstyles

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Tehran also released a list of approved hairstyles in an attempt to offer Islamic substitutes to "decadent" western cuts, such as the ponytail and the mullet.

wait are they the decadence or the alternatives

It's like olden times, when Mennonites ruled the earth.

when mennonites were mennonites