I've seen it all now - "Women are responsible for earthquakes!"

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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8631775.stm
I've truly seen it all now.
This man is supposedly an inteligent man, he leads a country for goodness sake.
Now, I'm a religious person, but saying this in the name of religion is foolish and wrong I think????

This is one of those moments I feel embarrassed to be Iranian -_-

In the interests of fairness, the OP makes it sound like the Iranian president said this rather than a nutty cleric. It says in the link:

Seismologists have warned that the Iranian capital Tehran is situated on a large number of tectonic fault lines and could be hit by a devastating quake 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.

So the man leading Iran is saying 'move', not 'cover up you hussies'. Whew.

How come there are no earthquakes where I live then?

Ha! This reminded me of a quote from the film "Anchorman" - where a character called Brick Tamland is opposing women working in the newsroom:

"I read somewhere their periods attract bears. Bears can smell the menstruation."

anyway, beggars belief.

I'll see your 'loose women cause earthquakes', and I'll raise you....

US healthcare reform causes volcanic eruption

PorphyrophillicPixie Don't feel bad just take the country over by getting together with other women (like in the Fanastic Four) and shake them from their Minarets. Now that would make me laugh

This is the floods caused by gay people one.

Mind you we should be respecting their religious beliefs you know.

People are always telling me that, but I've not quite mastered it yet.

Onagar you and me both. At 11 I rejected the idea that Man is servant of God and woman is servant of man. Bog off! There was no way I was going to be a servant to my snotty brother so there.
NOW brother is not so snotty has lovely wife who he cooks for every evening. I don't think he got a bad deal as they both work inside & outside the home and have a fab life. &&&& his brother-in-law is gay! No flood or earthquakes near them!!!

Hats - turbans? - off to this guy's creative use of logic, if nothing else.

ongar don't het me started on godhatesfags.com, god help you if you're gay with a swedish mum and irish dad you're doomed!

Hmmm methink he caused it - silly old windbag!

What a load of tosh eh?!

Onegar - that's one hell of a lot of seminal fluid he's claiming then

If man is the servant of god and woman the servant of woman, where does this leave my cleaner?

An independant woman who is free to cause earthquakes where ever she wants and buy the undies to make it happen

Priceless.....

So that's why we have so many earthquakes in the UK. I've always wondered.

Right girls, burquas on and let's save Britain!

• I've always known it.

Must lose a bit of weight.

"Right girls, burquas on and let's save Britain' HAS to be a contender for quote of the week...

(Personally I go for that conspiracy theory about the Icelanders taking the top off the volcano to distract people from asking for the money back from those collapsed banks...)

so why is iran (with strictly enforced modesty laws) in the epicentre of a lot of fault lines, while all the liberated happy nudists get off scot free?

correlation- causation?

perhaps if everyone strips off now they wont have to move the capital....

Gird your loins ladies I feel a big one on its way

Well, if promiscuous women cause earthquakes we must be all pretty chaste...I mean, there are not many earthquakes often are there?

Do remeber the ancient gReeks thought women were emotional and could not think because their wombs travelled round their bodies, and once the womb lodged in their head they became irrational. Hence "hysteria" stemming from "hysterium" = womb.

They believed that for YEARS.

PErsonally, I think earthquakes are caused by too many men's balls dropping at once.