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Originally Posted by kennyc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8631775.stm
Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes, a senior Iranian cleric has said.
Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi told worshippers in Tehran last Friday that they had to stick to strict codes of modesty to protect themselves.
"Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray and spread adultery in society which increases earthquakes," he said.
Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade.
Mr Sedighi was delivering a sermon on the need for a "general repentance" by Iranians.
"What can we do to avoid being buried under the rubble? There is no other solution but to take refuge in religion and to adapt our lives to Islam's moral codes," he said.
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Yes, it sures sounds like women have all the power, doesn't it? And not even the entire woman, either. All it takes is some hair sticking out of a scarf or a hint of some boobage and this otherwise lower class female can cause geologic catastrophe without lifting a finger or uttering a word?
Amazing.
And it's the spread of adultery in a society which increases earthquakes? Even if this were true . . . men are not complicit in this? They are blameless because at the sight of some hair or boobage, they become weak and mindless, incapable of free will or self control?
NEVERMIND.