Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, a senior Iranian cleric, says women who wear immodest clothing and "behave promiscuously" are to blame for earthquakes.
"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."
No word yet on any negative effects of male ignorance, misogyny, self-righteousness, and superstitution.
John, I was just hoping aloud that the religious right in America never discovered their common ground with Muslim fundamentalists. That is one coalition I never want to deal with.
Posted by: lillianjane | April 21, 2010 at 01:34 PM
I'm not too worried about that because fundamentalists have a very hard time even agreeing with each other--call it the "tyranny of small differences."
Posted by: John Petty | April 21, 2010 at 06:07 PM