--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@...> wrote: > > What an effing idiot! Everybody knows quakes are caused by siddhas meditating!
Feel free to swear properly Mike, we're all men of the world around here. > --- On Wed, 4/21/10, gullible fool <ffl...@...> wrote: > > > From: gullible fool <ffl...@...> > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Iranian cleric blames quakes on promiscuous women > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 2:00 AM > > >  > > > > > > > > > > > >  > Women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for > earthquakes, an Iranian cleric says. >  > Hojjat ol-eslam Kazem Sediqi, the acting Friday prayer leader in Tehran, said > women should 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 explained. >  > Tens of thousands of people have died in Iran earthquakes in the last decade. >  > Mr Sediqi was delivering a televised sermon at the Tehran University campus > mosque last Friday on the need for a "general repentance" by Iranians when he > warned of a "prevalence of degeneracy". >  > "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. >  > 'Disappoint God' >  > Correspondents say many young Iranians sometimes push the boundaries of how > they can dress, showing hair under their headscarves or wearing tight-fitting > clothes. >  > Mr Sediqi also described the violence following last year's disputed > presidential election - the result of which prompted thousands of people to > hold mass protests - as a "political earthquake". >  > "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 lets not disappoint > God." >  > More than 25,000 people died when a powerful earthquake hit the ancient city > of Bam in 2003. >  > Seismologists have warned that the capital, Tehran, is situated on a large > number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating earthquake > soon. >  > President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said many of Tehran's 12 million > inhabitants should relocate. >  > There are plans to build a purpose built new capital near Qom. > > http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_ east/8631775. stm >  > "Love will swallow you, eat you up completely, until there is no `you,' only > love." >  > - Amma >
