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OP - June 01, 2010, 07:51 PM

(CNN) -- Women who dress provocatively and tempt people into promiscuity are to blame for earthquakes, a leading Iranian hard-line cleric has apparently said.

The prayer leader, Hojatoleslam Kazim Sadeghi, says women and girls who "don't dress appropriately" spread "promiscuity in society."

"When promiscuity spreads, earthquakes increase," he says in a video posted Monday on YouTube, apparently of him leading Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, last week.

"There is no way other than taking refuge in religion and adapting ourselves to Islamic behavior," he adds in the video.

The video was posted by YouTube user "electionlies," who appears to be anti-regime. The account features wallpaper of a blindfolded woman apparently weeping blood and the slogan, "The green movement is alive."

Green was the color of anti-regime protesters in last year's demonstrations in several cities across Iran. The protesters were marching against the country's election results, which gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office.

Sadeghi is a senior cleric who was appointed last year by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei as a substitute Friday prayer leader in Tehran, an extremely influential position.

Khamenei himself is Tehran's official Friday prayer leader.

Iran suffers regular earthquakes, including a devastating one that destroyed the ancient city of Bam in 2003, killing tens of thousands.

Sadeghi is not the only religious leader to have linked earthquakes with human behavior this year.

American televangelist Pat Robertson suggested that January's devastating earthquake in Haiti was because of a pact Haitians made with the devil in order to throw off French rule.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/04/20/iran.promiscuity.earthquakes/index.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/14/iranian-cleric-defends-bo_n_577041.html

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Reply #1 - June 01, 2010, 08:17 PM

I feel like being promiscuous .

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Reply #2 - June 01, 2010, 08:36 PM

Already posted here and interesting spin-off covered here. I think there might have been another thread, too.

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Reply #3 - June 01, 2010, 08:54 PM

Quote from: thinkfree on June 01, 2010, 08:36 PM
Already posted here and interesting spin-off covered here. I think there might have been another thread, too.

lol. why am i always late?

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Reply #4 - June 01, 2010, 09:13 PM

Maybe you were too busy being Promiscuous

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Reply #7 - June 01, 2010, 11:31 PM

It's really difficult to keep up with the pace here sometimes ... but it's all good ...

Not that I'm asking for it (think this forum is technically quite decent) a nice feature on other forum based website is that when a similar topic is being typed, an auto-dropdown lists appear with possible similar topics using the same words. Helps reduce duplicate topics.

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Reply #8 - June 01, 2010, 11:54 PM

do a search before you post something??? I find it helps. I promise.

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Reply #9 - June 02, 2010, 12:07 AM

Of course you are absolutely correct.

However when one is lazy one may not do such a thing to save the precious time it take to go through all those search pages! (And save the world some extra computation with all those queries resulting in electricity increase, C02 emissions and raising the sea level for our grand kids ... )

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Reply #10 - June 02, 2010, 01:11 AM

that's the thing. when you search and see 1000 results you know someone has made a post about it

if nothing comes up then you're good to go. So essentially you ARENT looking through anything.

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Reply #11 - June 02, 2010, 04:54 AM

Quote from: Saathiya on June 01, 2010, 09:13 PM
Maybe you were too busy being Promiscuous

i'll use the search feature the next time i post something. it's just that sometimes i forget its there.
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