Allah off the Richter scale
By Arnaud de Borchgrave, The Washington Times
The killer wave that swallowed tens of thousands of Muslims was an act of Allah designed to punish the Christians. So went the convoluted logic of some Muslim imams in recent sermons from Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian territories.
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Saudi cleric Muhammad Al-Munajiid explained God's tsunami punishment of Christians stemmed from "the Christian holidays [that] are accompanied by forbidden things, by immorality, abomination, adultery, alcohol, drunken dancing and revelry. A belly dancer costs 2,500 pounds a minute and a singer costs 50,000 pounds an hour, and they hop from one hotel to another from night to dawn.
"Then they spend the entire night defying Allah. ... At the height of immorality, Allah took revenge on these criminals. ... Allah struck them with an earthquake. He finished off the Richter scale. All nine levels gone."
In the same vein, Sheikh Mudeiris, at a Palestinian Friday sermon in Gaza, said, "When oppression and corruption increase, the law of equilibrium applies. I can see in your eyes you are wondering what is the 'universal law of equilibrium.' This law is a divine law. If people are remiss in implementing God's law and in being zealous and vengeful for His sake, Allah unleashes his soldiers in action to take revenge."
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Of course, the major flaw with the clerics' thinking is that any responsibility Allah may have had in the tsunami deaths disproportionately affected Muslims in the hardest hit area of Indonesia - not Christians. That country is 80% Muslim. Thus I'm missing the logic here. Obviously, Allah needs to improve his aim....
I have heard other clerics proclaim that Allah was punishing Muslims for indulging in Western ways. Certainly if one is bent on blaming the event on an angry God, that, at least, is a more cohesive argument.
In the end, I'm not sure how many Indonesian Muslims will buy into this nonsense with a straight face. Certainly they themselves can look around and say "WHAT Christians??? We were Muslim!".
2 comments:
A circuit blew this morning as I was about to click the "publish" icon, Mata. ugh.
Methinks this Moslem cleric has blown a fuse. I still have a hard time grappling with HOW many lives were lost due the tsunamis, how much actual devastation. This is huge, huge, huge. And for this Moslem Cleric to assert all these lives were lost because Allah is unhappy? Allah is not someone I'd be interested in learning anything from. Too bad this cleric hasn't thought this one through... OTOH, how good for all the other religions...
Wish I could be a fly on the wall and hear how they're selling this BS to the flock. It's against all logic!
Get that fuse fixed asap... miss you on here, Alia! The "sea2sea" West branch isn't enuf, ya know!
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