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Women who dress “inappropriately” incite extramarital sex that in turn cause more earthquakes, a senior Iranian hard-line cleric has claimed.

You couldn't make it up, could you!

Attractive women who snub traditional Islamic clothing to instead wear fashionable clothes and apply heavy make-up, caused youths in the country to “go astray” and have affairs, Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi said. The hard-line cleric say's as a result the country, bounded by several fault lines, experienced more “calamities” such as earthquakes.



So what's the answer?

"Calamities are the result of people's deeds. “We have no way but conform to Islam to ward off dangers." The Islamic dress code is mandatory in Iran, which has been under clerical rule for more than three decades. Every post-pubescent woman regardless of her religion or nationality must cover her hair and bodily contours in public.

Er, right.

Offenders face punishment and fine. But this has not stopped urban women from appearing in the streets wearing tight coats and flimsy headscarves and layers of skilfully applied make-up.

Experts have warned that a strong quake in Tehran, the Iranian capital, could kill hundreds of thousands of people. Tehran province has nearly 14 million inhabitants, eight million of whom live in the city, which sits on several fault lines. Earlier this month, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s president, warned at least five million Tehran residents that they should flee Iran's capital because it is threatened by earthquakes.

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If I recall my RE lessons after 60 years, it was always a plague of locusts that descended upon the sinners. Don't have locusts inIran I suppose so they have to do with what they have got.

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American tolerance of homosexual acts did not just lead to a tsunami swamping thousands of Hindus and Buddhists (so presumably do not count as 'people' because not Jehovah-worshippers) half the world away to warn American of their immorality in doing what the whole world has done since time immemorial (was 'Jehovah' asleep?), it goes on to insist that soldiers getting killed on active duty in a war zone also shows God's hostility to tolerating homosexuality, whatever the soldiers killed thought about it.

What in buggery do soldiers expect on active hostile duty? OK, Westboro Baptist Church is a disgusting minority of bigots (or minority of disgusting bigots, or perm all three words) but they do represent a strong US feeling that These things can't just happen in the natural course of events, there must be an Agency directing them if they go against us and we should atone

That is frighteningly primitive thinking that of course can be found in the Bible, and in what remains of other religious literature to excuse disaster as punishment for defying the gods and success as obviously sanctified by the gods in the very worst sense of practicality without any idea of gods standing for some greater nobler ideal with ethical overtones. (I added this para later, so split the next and that is why it may not follow correctly, because it is too late to rewrite it to fit the new layout)

Use a bit of psychology and work it backwards though. These are natural events. When you ignore the many deaths from natural disaster and in war, to concentrate on only those that concern you, you are imagining a supernatural Power that only moves when your people step out of line. What do they imagine Christians did when Vesuvius covered Pompeii and Herculaneum that had probable never heard of Christianity? If 'God' wants to zap people, why not all people who do not believe in him (since they portray 'him' as that sort of shit-head) or believers who've screwed up? And why the fuck should a 'god' who made 'himself' known to Israelis millennia ago be as anti-Jewish and after 1500 years reject the traditional Western Greek Bible for the Hebrew one? Sheet uv ze Bool