[Reader-list] Extramarital sex 'causes more earthquakes'

[Kshmendra Kaul]

@ Monica - List gone crazy again. Mails indicating one 'sender' whereas actual mail is from someone else. Shuddhya's reply to my post has got archived before my post+ 
 
Dear Rajendra
 
I dont think anyone has 'rejected' your posts. I am quite sure that 'reject' is not an option being used by the Moderators.
 
This List does off and on have technical glitches.
 
I sometimes receive posts a few days after they have been sent/archived. I might receive 'later' posts earlier than 'earlier' ones.
 
Please be patient. Not just you but everyone faces such proiiblems off and on.
 
Kshmendra

--- On Tue, 4/20/10, Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi <rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi <rajen786uppinangady at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Extramarital sex 'causes more earthquakes'
To: "Shuddhabrata Sengupta" <shuddha at sarai.net>
Cc: "Kshmendra Kaul" <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>, "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:02 PM



Shuddha, you are the one who mailed about freedom of expression, now is it not abuse of your intellect to reject my posts to the list., i wonder...........


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net> wrote:

Now I know why pious men tremble so much !





On 20-Apr-10, at 4:07 PM, Kshmendra Kaul wrote:

> " Extramarital sex 'causes more earthquakes', Iranian cleric claims"
>
> (Women who dress “inappropriately” incite extramarital sex that in
> turn cause more earthquakes, a senior Iranian hard-line cleric has
> claimed.)
>
> By Andrew Hough
> 19 Apr 2010
>
> Attractive women who snub traditional Islamic clothing to instead
> wear fashionable clothes and apply heavy make-up, caused youths in
> the country to “go astray” and have affairs, Ayatollah Kazem
> Sedighi said.
>
> The hard-line cleric said as a result the country, bounded by
> several fault lines, experienced more “calamities” such as
> earthquakes, the reformist Aftab-e Yazd newspaper reported him saying.
>
> Iran is prone to frequent quakes, many of which have been
> devastating for the country.
>
> "Many women who dress inappropriately ... cause youths to go
> astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in
> society, which increases earthquakes," he told worshippers at a
> Tehran prayer service late last week.
>
> "Calamities are the result of people's deeds.
>
> “We have no way but conform to Islam to ward off dangers."
>
> The Islamic dress code is mandatory in Iran, which has been under
> clerical rule for more than three decades.
>
> Every post-pubescent woman regardless of her religion or
> nationality must cover her hair and bodily contours in public.
>
> Offenders face punishment and fine.
>
> But this has not stopped urban women from appearing in the streets
> wearing tight coats and flimsy headscarves and layers of skilfully
> applied make-up.
>
> Experts have warned that a strong quake in Tehran, the Iranian
> capital, could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
>
> Tehran province has nearly 14 million inhabitants, eight million of
> whom live in the city, which sits on several fault lines.
>
> Earlier this month, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s president,
> warned at least five million Tehran residents that they should flee
> Iran's capital because it is threatened by earthquakes.
>
> Mr Ahmadinejad said that more than two thirds of Iran's 74-million-
> strong population lived in urban areas.
>
> "We cannot predict when an earthquake will happen. But if anything
> happens to Tehran province's 13.8 million residents, how can we
> manage that?" he asked.
>
> The worst in recent times hit the southern city of Bam in December
> 2003, killing more than 31,000 people – about a quarter of the
> population – and destroying its ancient mud-built citadel.
>
> Earlier this year the hardline cleric led rallies from Iranian
> government supporters who denounced opposition students who burned
> photos of the country's supreme leader during protests in December.
>
> "The issue has reached a point where the picture of Imam Khomeini
> is insulted," he said.
>
> "They questioned things that are sacred."
>
> He mocked opposition activists who "thought the revolution had been
> defeated".
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7606145/
> Extramarital-sex-causes-more-earthquakes-Iranian-cleric-claims.html
>
>
>
>
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
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